Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

"You must be out of your mind." Pearl couldn't help but find it amusing, wondering where his confidence came from.

"Yeah, you can see it that way," Hugo said solemnly, locking his gaze on the woman in front of him, whom he had thought about for a long time. "I'll make sure you'll willingly come back to me." Pearl frowned in disgust, prepared to get out of the car, only to realize that the door had already been locked.

"We're not done yet, and yet you're so eager to leave." Hugo's usual warm eyes turned dark.

"I don't have time to put up with your madness." Pearl's tone changed from gentle to cold.

"What if I tell you that I know your mother's and Gigi's whereabouts?"

Hearing those two familiar names, Pearl hesitated for a moment.

Her subtle pause didn't escape Hugo's attention. "You see, no matter where we are, these two vulnerabilities will always make you fall in line."

curled slightly. Her gaze was unwavering this time as she spoke slowly,

might do to them," Hugo warned. "Well, then spill it." Pearl couldn't easily trust him, and she was sure things weren't as simple as he made it

gaze and said, "You've been back almost a month

information was much more powerful than Hugo's, so if she couldn't find them, he couldn't either. Trying

clever, it's not a good

secretly found the hidden latch to open the car door.

opportunity of his momentary surprise and made a run

her escape and felt a ripple of emotion in his

this bold and arrogant rose bend

at the office, Pearl noticed an additional presence in

fiddled with his phone and teased, "I was wondering why I haven't received the

me?" Pearl crossed over to

the computer screen. "Yup. You didn't