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.

expression, “Anna, why do I have the

flickered in my eyes

asking this

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 like Joyful Success would need their employees to work

down her cutlery and peered

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 Natalie grew

know that I was being taken advantage of by Conrad. Knowing Natalie’s temper, if she knew that I

overtime to meet deadlines,” I said against my

that really what’s

as though she didn’t

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

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

in bed, I began stewing over

have said those things to Conrad on

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

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 situation when I go

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

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

they would peek at me from time to time, I could guess that their topic of discussion was probably related

“Anna, you’re here.”

I was

“Mm-hmm.”

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