Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl (Pearl and Richard) novel Chapter 1099

Claude gave Pearl a long look. "I hope you can give me an answer by three o'clock tomorrow afternoon, Miss Pearl," he said before turning and leaving.

"How do you know someone like him?" Richard knew a bit about Claude too. He realized Claude was no simple man, especially since he had recently returned to the country. How did they even meet?

Pearl shook her head. "I barely know him. We just met today, but there's something."

"What is it?"

"I think I might be related to him," Pearl replied, watching Claude's graceful exit with deepening interest.

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Although Sabrina's fall into the water caused a stir, the engagement party proceeded smoothly.

However, there was a sudden commotion when Esther began her vows. Halfway through her speech, Esther heard laughter around her, and her expression changed.

"Excuse me, miss. Do you have something to say?" She had always had a hot temper, and hearing someone disrespect her at her engagement party raised her anger.

"Not really," a young woman replied confidently under the crowd's gaze. "I'm just curious, how could someone from a background like yours marry into the prestigious Crawford family? It's like someone from a modest background marrying into high society and thinking they've become royalty, isn't it?"

After saying that, she swirled the wine in her glass with a hint of regret. "It's a pity that someone forcibly took away someone else's marriage and still doesn't realize it. How funny."

"She must have been put up to it by someone," Pearl thought, looking at the calmer woman beside her.