Transmigrated: Stealing the CEO husband-Chapter 46: Saved by President Luiss

’Ting’

[New main task. Make Lucia and Luiss fateful meeting unsuccessful.

Time Limit 3 days

Penalty: Elimination]

Ariana had just known the comfort of her bed when the bloody system tore through her peace. She had her doubts in the beginning. Now she was certain, the stupid system found it joyous to ruin her leisure moments.

"Of course, how can I forget? The fateful meeting of the male lead and the female lead at the at Todoroki valley. The opening scene. The start of fire."

And she was supposed to ruin it. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"Long time not see." Gerald approached Ariana with a casual stance. His eyes narrowed at her as he approached. "I see walking out of Luiss private jet. Someone seems to have risen in status. Did my girl Rosaline teach you stuff?"

Ariana stepped back and bowed to Gerald, bringing back the formality.

"I can’t dare to copy President Gerald’s staff methods." She got up. "Speaking of which, I don’t see Ms. Rosaline with you."

"Let’s just say that your way of planting doubt of seed made me go hard on my girl. In the end, she wasn’t resilient enough, and now she is no longer adequate for the job of my secretary. In her place. I got a new girl. Hey Violet, come here,"

A blonde girl excused herself, and walked past the guests to arrive. "Give your introduction to Ms. Grey. After all, we got an..." His sleazy gaze licked Ariana. She felt goosebumbs "...an old acquaintance here."

Violet, a fresh young girl, gave her a deep bow. "I’m Violet James. We would be working together for this project as previously decided. Pleased to make your acquaintance"

Ariana could have only guessed what happened to Rosaline. According to the story, when she tried going against the female lead, Gerald lost his mind and tortured her brutally. To the point of insanity and disability. She was discarded as such.

Gerald wasn’t someone right in the head.

She shivered as she answered. "The pleasure is all mine."

As they conversed, Gerald seemed interested in her personal life.

"I have a little brother, Elias, who is studying medicine; that’s all. We are a little family."

"No boyfriend or fiance?"

Ariana didn’t know what to say to that. But since the other party was a tycoon she couldn’t just ignore him. "None as of yet."

With each question, he cornered her. His overbearing presence was too much for her. Coupled with what she had known about him by reading the novel. She was terrified.

"Secretary Grey!" Luiss called from a distance. Walking past the guests, he came to her side. "Where did you disappear to?"

Ariana felt a sense of relief wash over her. "I was just catching up with President Gerald."

"Oh, really?" Luiss gave Gerald a non chalant look. "Since when you made aquiantance with President Gerald? Come on I need to introduce you to some important people." He dragged her away.

Never had Ariana been so grateful of President Luiss than now for saving her from the awkward conversation with. Once they were at a distance, Luiss stopped her.

"I need to ask you something," His intense eyes bore into hers.

"What is it President Luiss?"

"David told me when you had gone back to retrieve you key, you have very likely stumbled into Gerald." He spoke each word distanced carefully keeping an eye out on her expression.

"What about it?"

"Did he hurt you in any way?"

"Am I not fine and healthy in front of you?"

"So you did stumble into him." Luiss narrowed his eyes. "I want to know what happened from A to Z, everything. If he hurt you or threatened you even a little bit..."

"President Luiss, nothing like this happened. President Gerald had the same questions you had. And he wanted an answer"

"And did you answer him?"

"The same answer I had for you."

"You are a cunning one."

"Aren’t you happy to have a smart secretary?" Ariana beamed.

...

When she was grabbing herself some lunch, Ariana accidentally stumbled into someone, spilling the drinks over her dress. "I’m so sorry." She apologized.

"You!" The woman was enraged. "Whose company do you belong to? Do you know I was wearing a premium brand dress?"

"I’ll pay for it." She offered.

"You can’t pay for it, it’s one of its kind. It’s replaceable." The woman was particularly ill-tempered.

"What happened, Ms. Voss?" A man with blond hair asked her. She recognized the man as the organizer of the event. If he was being so reverent to the lady with a ruined dress then she must be someone important.

Ariana’s ears perked up at the word Voss.

"This woman here stumbled into me, ruining my dress." The woman complained.

"Which company do you belong to?" Roiling in anger, she asked. "I’ll have you fired before the sun sets."

"I’m really sorry, Ms. Voss." Ariana understood the difference between the heirs and heiress and herself. She was a commoner.

Although the staff and the heirs mingled in the event, the commoners could not hope to compare themselves with the top elites. There was a stark difference between people of power and those who worked under them to serve them.

"You did that on purpose!" Katherine Voss spat out.

"No, it was not out of purpose. I just didn’t expect you to be behind me all of a sudden."

"So now you are blaming me?" With each sentence, her voice grew more irritated.

Ariana kept her cool. "What can I do to make you ease up your anger?"

"I’m going to change. You must wash it clean and make it look like how it originally was."

"Fine."

Ariana agreed, not wanting Luissto be involved and ruining her relationship status with him. She followed Katherine to her residence suite. She was handed over a crumpled piece of paper. She went back to her lodging and placed it carefully at the table.

When she went outside, the door opened and Violet slipped through the cracks. She took an iron, put it on full and placed it over the dress, effectively burning it to deep black.

"Let’s see how you get out of this, Ariana." Maargarate eyes glinted with maliciousness.