Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

"You're getting married so quickly?" Pearl mumbled almost to herself.

"Yeah, I'm getting married next month. Do you want to come?"

In Pearl's mind, marriage had always seemed like a distant topic. She and Richard had agreed to get engaged first, and they would only marry after Pearl found her mother.

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Seeing the wedding invitation now, she felt a sense of loss and melancholy. "Oh, I won't go."

Pearl had been considering if Richard was protecting her exclusively, but the harsh reality shattered her fantasies. His relationship with his fiancee was good, so of course he was too busy to care about Pearl. She silently scolded herself for her misplaced hopes, realizing she had been fooling herself.

"Alright." Richard ended that topic.

As Richard parked the car, Pearl opened the door and

haste moved Richard. "It's raining outside.

fine." Pearl shook her head and held the documents securely. Then, she braved the heavy rain

followed

Estrella was walking too slowly. He turned around with a gloomy expression, the black umbrella shielding his face. "Can you walk faster? You're

the first time Estrella had heard such harsh words. She didn't argue but replied gently, "Alright, I'll pick up the

felt like

hard for Silas to say anything more. He silently extended

the confined space of the car, their

from him, but she hadn't, so the umbrella didn't provide much protection,

there like that, with her wet body, Silas couldn't bear it. He grabbed a piece of clothing from the back