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.

drawings before sending them to the industry’s most

reckoned a big company like that would take about a

fallen through, she had used her spare

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

at the store, the store manager briefed her on what she should

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that luxury stores provide high-end services, the place was never busy

behavior was considered the norm when it came to places

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

putting out items, turned her

a small world. I can’t believe I bumped

any attention to herself, Christina whipped her

task

feeling disappointed about the lack of new items, when she

What 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 woman with no background and no

thought in mind, Xandra walked toward Christina and said contemptuously, “Is this one of your saleswomen?”

to how things work here yet.

Xandra cut her off, “I want her to

when she heard that. She had no idea what relationship Christina and Xandra shared

got to her feet calmly and said. “Feel free to tell

around and swept her gaze around the store, trying

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

salesperson beside Christina tried to help her out but was discouraged from doing

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 petite she was, she had to make several trips in order to get all

of heels.

glee filled her heart and she felt as if she had had her revenge. Subsequently, she kicked off her shoes arrogantly and ordered

“Help me try on each

of a salesperson to help their customer try on shoes, those who were

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 a