When I woke up at night, Natalie had already come back. Her eyes widened in shock upon seeing me walk out of my room.

“Why are you back so early today? Don’t you have to work overtime?”

I stretched and yawned while answering her. “I took the day off today.”

“You took the day off? Holy sh*t. Is the sun rising from the west or something?”

Natalie gaped at me in utter disbelief.

I hummed in confirmation but remained otherwise silent. Noticing the gloomy look on my face, Natalie started eyeing me suspiciously.

“You didn’t come home last night. Where’d you go?”

My expression stiffened upon hearing Natalie’s question, and I replied somewhat guiltily, “I was working overtime.”

“Working overtime? Why are you lying? Who the hell works overtime for the entire night? Tell me the truth. Did you…” Natalie trailed off and raised her brows meaningfully.

Although she didn’t finish her sentence, her question was very obvious.

My face instantly flushed red when Natalie figured out what I had done the previous night. I began fidgeting on the spot, unable to meet Natalie’s eyes because of the guilt that I was feeling.

“What on earth are you thinking about? I really was working overtime. I’m hungry. Let’s eat now.”

The guilt in my voice couldn’t be mistaken. With that, I ignored Natalie and quickly went to set up the table.

smart for her own good. If Michael started looking for me too frequently, I wouldn’t be able to keep our relationship

solemn expression, “Anna, why do I have the feeling you’ve been hiding

in my eyes

this

dispirited lately, and you’re working overtime every night. You’re acting weird, Anna. Besides, it doesn’t make sense that such

her cutlery and peered at

working overtime for more than a week, and it was rare for any company to have its employees work overtime for so many days in a row. Hence, it was only normal

that I was being taken advantage of by Conrad. Knowing Natalie’s temper, if she knew that I was being harassed and exploited by my superior, she

working overtime to meet

really

as though she didn’t believe

Alright, stop worrying about me. Anyways, I’m done eating, so I’m going back to my room now. I have to wake up early for work

that Natalie would insist on getting to the bottom of this, I darted toward my room right after

lay in bed, I began stewing over what would happen at the office

chest at the thought of this. I should never have said those things to Conrad on the spur of

if he didn’t fire me, he’d make sure my life in the office was a living hell. Conrad was a very spiteful person. Now that I offended him, he was undoubtedly going to make it

matter as it would only make me more frustrated. I’ll find out the

gleeful looks on their faces. I had no idea why they always singled me out like that when I didn’t do anything to offend them.

during this period of time made me very uncomfortable, I refused to let them get to me. Ignoring all of

among themselves. I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but seeing as they would peek at me from time

“Anna, you’re here.”

Scott, the only person here whom I was on

“Mm-hmm.”

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