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

big company like that would take about a week to get back

the bar had fallen through, she had used her spare time and found

herself for work. As most luxury stores have high requirements for their clerks, it was necessary for her to tie up her hair and put on some makeup.

Christina arrived at the store, the store manager briefed

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the place was never busy most of the

was considered the norm when it came

some of our newest collection?” The enthusiastic voice

out items, turned her head and saw Xandra, who was

believe I bumped into

draw any attention to herself, Christina whipped her head back

task

the goods in the store without much interest, feeling disappointed about the lack of new items, when she noticed a slender figure in the corner just when she

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.

thought in mind, Xandra walked toward Christina and said contemptuously, “Is this

delay, “She’s new here, so she’s not used to how things work here yet. Why don’t larrange for a more experienced saleswoman to-”

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

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

feet calmly and said. “Feel free to tell me

swept her gaze around

this row of heels. My feet size is thirty-seven, so hurry up and get them

were more than a dozen different types of heels on the rack, a salesperson beside Christina

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

of heels.

and she felt as if

“Help me try on each

salesperson to help their customer try on shoes, those who were present could clearly tell that Xandra was deliberately making things difficult for Christina.

can a celebrity and a fresh graduate have to do with each other? Is it because Christina is beautiful? I guess

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