Billionaire's Hidden Princess by Alegna Ciee (romance novel chinese novels TXT) 📗

Chapter Twenty-One: Visiting the Workplace

It has been more than a week since Leticia found out about her boyfriend’s true identity.

Driven by curiosity, she secretly decided to look it up on the internet and learn more about Livius by reading different articles and websites that’re dedicated to him. She really felt like hitting herself in frustration after that, cringing at how oblivious and ignorant she had been this whole time.

It just happened that he’s actually so prominent and influential that his face and name could literally be seen almost everywhere. Now, she feels like she’s been blind all along. Not even once did she get to connect the dots despite all the signs and clues that had been thrown to her.

Leticia can’t really blame herself, though. After all, she’s just so in love with Livius that she forgot about everything else that should’ve mattered.

It’s not like anything has changed after she learned about all these things either. If anything, it only made her feel happy since she could finally see another side of him.

Today, for one, Leticia has been given permission to visit Livius in his workplace.

“Woahhh… Talk about humongous…” she thought out loud in awe, eyes glued on the bottom part of a grandiose edifice before darting all the way up to its top.

“So, this is where Livi works.”

She hasn’t even taken a step inside but she’s now all this worked up. It’s just so astonishingly imposing that a girl who grew up in the countryside like her would definitely think that it’s a palace if she didn’t know any better.

“Anyway, let’s just get into it. Lunch time is almost here…” Leticia mumbled to herself before taking a look at the bag that’s hanging over her shoulder.

“I hope Livi will like my cooking.”

In an effort to commemorate this special day in her own simple way, she decided to pack lunch for her boyfriend. Fortunately, she has no classes for the whole day, so she spent the rest of the morning preparing meals and wrapping up lunch boxes.

Livius isn’t really aware of this, though. She also actually didn’t tell him when exactly she’d be visiting. After he gave her permission to go to his workplace, she just promised that she’d be going at some point this week.

“It’s my turn to surprise him, of course! He’s the one who kept throwing me off guard lately, after all.”

A moment later, however, Leticia found out that she had made the wrong move.

“I’m sorry, Ma’am, but President Apollon is in an important meeting with the Board of Directors right now…” trailed off the female receptionist as soon as she arrived at the company’s main lobby.   

“Also, I’m afraid I can’t file a schedule for you to meet the President if you don’t have any formal letter or proper identification.”

Indeed, this is a wrong move – an unforeseen mistake.

Leticia thought that coming here would just be as easy as approaching Livius whenever it’s just the two of them. She completely neglected the fact that he’s a busy person and a distinguished superior who can’t meet just anyone.

What’s more, she has no formal letter or any of that sorts. She doesn’t have anything of importance with her at all.

“May I ask who you are, Ma’am?” the receptionist chimed in again after seeing her distraught reaction.

“O-Oh, umm… I’m Leticia Selene,” she answered.

“And what’s your connection with President Apollon?”

“I’m his girlfriend.”

Then, silence.

As soon as Leticia dropped those words, the receptionist visibly stiffened in flummox and disbelief. The other employees who happened to hear their conversation had paused either, surprise and incredulity written on their expressions.

With that, a moment of awkward silence strides in, which only means that her answer doesn’t pass as a credible one – perhaps, it even came out preposterous.

Leticia can guess the thoughts inside their heads right now. They’re probably judging her at that moment, especially since the receptionist herself didn’t even try to be discreet in scrutinizing her appearance.

Her ordinary apparel already gave away the fact that she’s nothing but a plain person. That made her claim even more unbelievable for them.

“Huh? Ms. Selene?”

Then came an uncalled-for appearance.

Just when Leticia thought of giving up and escaping their fault-finding display of skepticism - unable to take this amount of attention any longer, Gabriel popped out of nowhere.

Caught off guard, she immediately swerved her head to the side and found him wearing a black cap and a pair of shades which seemed to be serving like some kind of disguise. They lock eye contact at that very second, taken aback from seeing each other.

“Fancy seeing you, Ms. Selene… I believe you’re here to see that person?” he then started again right after recovering from his nonplus, surprising her even more.

“You can’t go in without any document to show as proof, though. They’re pretty strict with accepting guests and the security’s really tight. How about coming with me for now?”

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