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.

wouldn’t be able to keep our relationship a secret from

with a solemn expression,

my

you asking this all of a

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

cutlery and peered at me

and it was rare for any company to have its employees work overtime for so many days in a row. Hence, it was

Conrad. Knowing Natalie’s temper, if she knew that I was being harassed and exploited by my superior, she would probably go to my office with a kitchen knife

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

that really what’s going

scrutinizing me, as

going back to my room now. I have to wake up

Natalie would insist on getting to the bottom of this, I darted toward my

began stewing over what would

my chest at the thought of this. I should never have said those

very spiteful person. Now

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

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 of

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

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 their topic of discussion

“Anna, you’re here.”

the only person here whom I was on

“Mm-hmm.”

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