Chapter 694
The effect of the medicine may have been so strong that Pearl slept until the next day.
When Pearl finally woke up, she suddenly remembered that Gigi hadn''t asked her for the ointment the day before. She
rummaged through her drawer, found a bandage, and prepared to take it to Gigi''s room.
Standing at the entrance, she knocked several times, but there was no response.
Gigi wasn''t in her room, and there wasn''t any activity downstairs, so Pearl decided to check Beah''s room.
She knocked on the door, but there was still no answer.
Sensing something was wrong, Pearl pushed the door open. To her surprise, the room was immactely clean, as if no one had
ever lived there.
Pearl felt a sudden rush of panic. She hurried to Gigi''s room, opened the door abruptly, and found it in a simr state, neat and
empty.
Had they both disappeared overnight?
Hugo had left early for work and was currently in a meeting when Pearl called him.
“Where’s my mom and Gigi?" Pearl cut to the chase.
"I''m in the middle of a meeting. Please don''t disturb me. They''re probably out shopping or something," Hugo replied, thinking that
Pearl was overreacting. He hung up quickly to attend to the urgent matters at hand, assuming that Beah and Gigi had gone out
and would returnter.
However, Pear! felt that the situation wasn''t that simple.
Unable to reach Hugo on the phone, she had no choice but to wait patiently at home. Perhaps he was right that they might have
just gone out shopping and hadn''t returned.
But by noon, there was still no sign of them.
Pearl''s anxiety grew, and she couldn''t shake off the feeling that something was seriously wrong. She quickly tried to find any
information about their whereabouts, but being in a foreign country made it challenging to track them down. In the end, her
search yielded no results.
Considering what had happened in Hugo''s room, a thought gradually surfaced in her mind. She considered the possibility that
Hugo might have hidden them as a way to pressure her into marrying him.
With this suspicion in mind, she hailed a taxi and went straight to his office.
When she arrived, Hugo was in his office, engrossed in documents. He looked up in surprise as Pearl stormed in with anger.
Hugo had seen Pearl angry before, but this was a level of fury he hadn''t witnessed in her before. "What''s wrong?"
"Tell me, where have you hidden my mother and Gigi?" Pearl demanded, her voice trembling with rage.
Hugo burst intoughter, genuinely surprised. "Why would | hide them?"
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Pearl was taken aback. While Hugo had his motives, this extreme measure seemed unnecessary—all he needed to do was not
treat her mother''s illness.
Asudden realization hit her. The bewildered expression on Gigi''s face when she hadst seen her, the unease in her eyes... It all
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What had she been doing the previous day? She had argued with Hugo, and Gigi had happened to overhear the conversation.
She must have told Beah everything...
Her chaotic thoughts began to clear, and Pearl felt her heart sink even further.
If her suspicions were correct, Beah
would go to great lengths to keep her
from eng py stellt, She was
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