Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl (Pearl and Richard) novel Chapter 1237

Rosalie didn't hear that, but she saw Blake looking angry and suddenly smirking. She was confused. "What?"

Blake was actually happy because his friends thought Rosalie was his girlfriend. "Nothing. You should rest. I'll try not to make too much noise."

His friends on the headset were making 'ooo' sounds in reaction.

Rosalie just nodded. She wasn't sure why, but normally she found his gaming annoying, yet today, she found herself enjoying it.

Wait… Enjoying it?

Rosalie touched her cheek and realized it was hot. She wondered if she was going crazy.

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Pearl was caught off guard by how quickly the lockdown was enforced. Except for the big malls, all their businesses had to close. This meant they had to delay making the chips they were working on.

Pearl had planned to discuss the chip production with Santiago, but that had to wait. The epidemic had gotten so bad that within a month of its start, some people had already died.

Since Enswood was the center of the outbreak, it was difficult to say how many people had died from it.

One day, Pearl called Waye to ask about their company, but she was startled to hear him coughing.

"Are you sick?"