Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

James left the law firm without even sparing a glance at Esther.

"Eh, where is he going today?"

James usually worked until half past eleven in the morning, and it had only been half an hour since he left. Where could he be going?

Summer checked the appointment list but found nothing. "I don't know. He doesn't have any appointments today. Why would he leave suddenly?"

"I don't know. Maybe it's something urgent. Should I follow him?" Esther suggested, a bold idea forming in her mind.

Summer slapped Esther's head. "What are you thinking? Do you want to make a fool of yourself? You're a star, Esther. Don't you find it humiliating to do this kind of thing?"

She gritted her teeth, frustrated by Esther's infatuation with James despite her obvious beauty. Esther didn't seem to realize her own allure and wasted her charm on someone who didn't appreciate it.

on long ago and dated other attractive men. What

Moreover, she found herself unable to dissuade Esther, that

him to come back. He'll

even want to see you now,

believe it. She convinced herself that James was just testing her. After all, she had treated him poorly in the past, so it was natural for him to be distant now. Whenever she felt low, she consoled herself in this manner, and it proved to

think I

to you. Don't you know how to play cat and mouse?" Summer

think I should do that to him..." Esther hesitated, feeling torn. Using such tactics on James might exhaust his remaining patience with her, making it even harder to win him back. Summer shook her head in frustration. "He treats you like his little lapdog, yet you

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shook her head before nodding. She felt conflicted but eventually agreed to stop being a

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