Let Me Stay The Night

Chapter 21 A Small World

Peacock felt that the man before her was the devil incarnate. One glare from him was enough to kill somebody.

In less than a minute, Nathaniel’s hands were covered in red spots, and his heart rate started speeding up uncontrollably.

It seemed that his allergic reaction this time was worse than the last.

He clenched his fist and gritted his teeth. Christina’

The first thing that Sebastian saw when he arrived at the hospital was Nathaniel receiving an IV drip. The latter had an icy look on his face as if the world owed him a great debt, which made Sebastian gulp

in fear.

He began. “Mr. Hadley, Mrs. Hadley has not returned to the mansion, nor has she gone to the Steele residence. We haven’t managed to locate her as of-

Before Sebastian could even finish his words, a wave of rage surged through Nathaniel, and he swept all the glasses on the table to the ground.

The cacophony of glass shattering and water splashing duly expressed the turmoil of displeasure he was feeling.

He growled. “Keep searching!

“Yes, Mr. Hadley.” Sebastian wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead and got to work immediately.

I can’t believe Mrs Hadley just up and left after poking the bear, leaving us to clean up her mess! What a pitiful life I’m living!

While Nathaniel was suffering in the hospital. Christina was leisurely drawing a design draft in her university dorm. She couldn’t help but admit that she felt rather happy about not seeing Nathaniel for the past few days,

I’m sure a mighty CEO like him will lose interest in me soon enough.

With graduation just around the corner, Christina decided to devote all her energy to her major.

After studying fashion design for four years, she had a solid foundation.

information and design drawings before

take about a

at the bar had fallen through, she had used her spare time

work. As most luxury stores have high

briefed her on what she should and should

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luxury stores provide high-end services, the place was never busy most of the time, as they treated customers who were dressed normally with

was considered the norm when it came

you haven’t been here for a long time. Why don’t I show you some of our newest collection?” The enthusiastic voice of a salesgirl echoed throughout the store.

busy putting out items, turned her head and saw Xandra,

believe I bumped into

to draw any attention to herself, Christina whipped her head back and

task

perusing the goods in the store without much interest, feeling disappointed about the lack of new

is she doing here? Wouldn’t she become a laughingstock if others found out that the wife of the great Mr. Hadley is working as a saleswoman? It seems that Nathaniel doesn’t really care about her, huh? He’s probably only putting on a show for Mrs. Hadley before. But I guess that makes sense. After all, why would the heir of Hadley Corporation fall for a

mind, Xandra walked toward Christina and

how things work here yet. Why don’t larrange for

manager could finish. Xandra cut her off, “I want her

that. She had no idea what relationship Christina and Xandra shared and was worried that the former would offend the

her feet calmly and said. “Feel free to tell me if you need anything, Ms. Sullivan

around and swept her gaze around the store, trying to come

fell on a row of limited-edition high heels. “I want to try on this row of heels. My feet size is thirty-seven, so

rack, a salesperson beside Christina tried to help her out but was discouraged

purposely making things difficult for her. Nonetheless, she didn’t say anything and simply turned around before making her way to the warehouse to look for the heels. Because of how petite she was, she had to make

of heels.

a feeling of glee filled her heart and she felt as if she had had her revenge. Subsequently, she kicked off her

“Help me try on each pair of

duty of a salesperson to help their customer try on shoes, those who were present could clearly tell that Xandra was deliberately

graduate have to do with each other? Is it because Christina is beautiful? I guess it’s true when they say it’s hard to grasp what makes