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.

and design drawings before sending them to the industry’s most famous

that would take about a week to

had fallen through, she had used her spare time and found a part-time

uniform and prepared herself for work. As most luxury stores have high requirements for their clerks, it was necessary for her to tie up her hair

store manager briefed her on what she

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that luxury stores provide high-end services, the place was never busy most of the time, as

the norm when it came to

don’t I show you some of our newest collection?” The enthusiastic voice of a salesgirl

items, turned her

small world. I can’t believe I bumped into

herself, Christina whipped her head back and continued with

task

disappointed about the lack of new items, when she noticed a slender

It seems that Nathaniel doesn’t really care about her, huh? He’s probably only putting on a show for Mrs. Hadley

Xandra walked toward Christina and said contemptuously, “Is this one

without delay, “She’s new here, so she’s not used to how things work here yet. Why don’t larrange

manager could finish. Xandra cut her off, “I want her to assist me.”

looked conflicted when she heard that. She had no idea what relationship Christina and Xandra shared and was worried that the former would offend the

and said. “Feel free to tell me

gave each other an odd look before Xandra turned around and swept her gaze around

her gaze 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 hurry up and get them

there were more than a dozen different types of heels on the rack, a salesperson beside Christina tried to help her

knew that Xandra was 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 several trips in order to get all the different

of heels.

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

each pair of

shoes, those who were present could clearly tell that Xandra was

Is it because Christina is beautiful? I guess it’s true when they say it’s hard to grasp what makes a woman