Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl Novel novel Chapter 982

The woman didn't look familiar, but she was pretty. She looked haughty and seemed to be hostile. "Who are you? How could you just walk in?"

"... A friend," Esther replied hesitantly. They had broken up, so she couldn't claim to be his girlfriend anymore.

"Friend?" the woman scoffed, eyeing Esther up and down. "Why would Mister James be friends with someone like you?"

"What do you mean 'someone like me'? Why wouldn't he be friends with me?" Esther felt her anger rising.

The woman looked down on Esther. "Look at the way you're dressed. Our lawyer is a refined man, so he wouldn't mingle with someone like you."

Esther laughed bitterly. "You're new here, aren't you? You don't know anything."

The woman raised her chin defiantly. "Yes, I'm new, but I know him quite well. You wouldn't stand a chance to talk to him."

Esther sensed that this woman was only interested in James's good looks and wanted to flaunt herself in front of him to catch his attention. She wouldn't let someone like her near him.

"Do you know that I'm his ex-girlfriend?" Esther asked pointedly.

The woman's jealousy flashed briefly before she composed herself. "Of course not. So you're his ex. That's why you're dressed like…"