Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

"Can you tell me what's happening here?" Pearl asked, looking around curiously. She sensed there was more to this room than met the eye. "This place is full of cameras. Howard put them up so no one could sneak away," Daisy replied.

"What else?"

"There's a signal blocker in this room to prevent messages from getting out. That's why Howard didn't bother to check you," Daisy added.

Pearl frowned. "So, he's planning to keep me here without a chance to resist."

"He can keep you here and use you as a test subject, and you won't be able to fight back." Daisy gave her a sympathetic look. "How did you end up here?"

Pearl bit her lip, thinking. "Howard thought I'd make a perfect test subject. We've had our disagreements before." sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ Findɴovel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

"But Howard's a recluse. How could you have had any run-ins with him?" Daisy grew more curious and felt a connection to Pearl, encouraging her to share more.

"He's not really a recluse. He'd go to great lengths for his granddaughter," Pearl clarified, and they continued to talk for a while.

"I'm supposed to be here learning, and Howard fooled my family into thinking everything's fine by faking letters from me," Daisy revealed, feeling helpless.

She wasn't the favorite in the family or they wouldn't have sent her abroad. Being the overlooked child, she knew the Grants wouldn't rush to find her as they would have for her brother.

"But I think someone might notice you're missing," Daisy suggested hopefully.

out a message before I got locked

would find a way to

cleverness. "I wish I had your brains. Maybe then I wouldn't

in two years and wondered

her a reassuring smile. "Don't worry. If I find a way out, I'm taking you

lit up with hope. "Really? I could leave

just you." Pearl's gaze swept over the other captives. "I plan to help

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