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.

good. If Michael started looking for me too frequently, I wouldn’t be able to keep our relationship a secret from Natalie anymore. I couldn’t help but worry

expression, “Anna, why do

flickered in my eyes at her

you asking this all of

Besides, it doesn’t make sense that such a large company like Joyful Success would need their employees to work until so late at

her cutlery and peered at me with

week, and it was rare for any company to have

others to know 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

Work has been busier than usual lately, so I’ve been working overtime to meet deadlines,” I said against my conscience, then quickly bowed

that really what’s

continued scrutinizing me, as though

done eating, so I’m going

getting to the bottom of this, I darted toward my room right after saying

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

the thought of this. I should never have said those things to Conrad on the spur of the moment. I must’ve

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 his mission to pick on

eyes and told myself to stop fretting over this matter as it would

the next day, my colleagues looked at me with 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. I couldn’t help but wonder if it was because two of my colleagues saw me being forcefully hugged by Conrad, and that was why all

uncomfortable, I refused to let them get to me. Ignoring all of them, I settled down directly behind my desk and threw myself

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

“Anna, you’re here.”

person here whom I was

“Mm-hmm.”

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