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.

the webpage, she filled in her information and design drawings before sending them to the industry’s most famous clothing company-Radiant

big company like that would take about a week to get

job at the bar had fallen through, she had used her spare time and found a part-time job as a saleswoman at a

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

the store manager briefed her on what she

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the place was never busy most of the time, as they treated customers

the norm when it came to places

here for a long time. Why don’t I show you some of our newest collection?” The enthusiastic voice of

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

world. I can’t believe I bumped

herself, Christina whipped her head back and continued with her

task

perusing 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

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

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

store manager answered without delay, “She’s new here, so she’s not used to how

finish. Xandra cut her off, “I want

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

“Feel free to tell me if you need anything, Ms. Sullivan

odd look before Xandra turned around and swept her gaze around the store, trying to come up with

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

than a dozen different types of heels on the rack, a salesperson beside Christina tried to help her out but was

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

of heels.

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

each pair of these

those who were present could clearly

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 woman