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 Natalie anymore. I couldn’t help but

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

in my eyes at her

asking this

overtime every night. You’re acting weird, Anna. Besides, it doesn’t make sense that such a large company like Joyful Success would need their employees to

cutlery and peered at

been working overtime for more than a week, and it was rare for any company to have its employees

she knew that I was being harassed and exploited by my superior, she would probably go to my office

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

that really

as though she didn’t believe

Anyways, I’m done eating, so I’m going back to my room now. I

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

breathed a long sigh of relief. As I lay in bed, I began stewing over what would happen at the office the next day. I

 I should never have said those things to Conrad on the spur of the

was a living hell. Conrad was a very spiteful person. Now that I offended him, he was undoubtedly going to make it his

in resignation, I shut my eyes and told myself to stop fretting over this matter as it would only make me more frustrated. I’ll find out the exact

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

to let

peek at me from time to time, I could guess

“Anna, you’re here.”

I was on good terms with,

“Mm-hmm.”

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