A Naive Bride for the Sophisticated CEO novel Chapter 12

After Amelia was done puking, she rinsed her face and ran out of the restroom. She ran back to where she had run into James and saw that he wasn’t there anymore.

She saw a man standing next to the entrance, he was wearing a blue and black uniform.

“Excuse me, sir. Please, do you know where the meetings with the CEOs are taking place? I should be there but I have no idea where it is.”

The eyes of the security man she spoke to roamed her body from head to toe. He wondered what someone who looked so not-classy would do at such a great event.

“It’s on the other side. They are in the first conference room.”

He pointed forward, and Amelia turned to the direction he pointed to.

“Thank you!”

She hurriedly ran down the corridor in front of her, while her eyes were busy checking out the doors.

Soon, she got to the fourth door and saw a tag with ‘Conference Room’ on it. She moved closer, and she could see the inside of the room.

It was super huge, and her mouth fell open in shock. There were pretty many people in the room, and they all looked hot.

They were all seated, but they were yet to start the meeting. She quickly searched for James, and then she saw him sitting so handsomely amidst the others.

The seat that was next to him was empty, and Amelia wondered if that seat was for her. She took another look at herself, and heaved a nervous sigh.

‘You can do it, Amelia. You need to show him that you can handle this.’

She lifted her head high and exhaled deeply. She reached for the handle of the door and opened it.

As soon as she stepped in, everyone in the room turned their heads to look at her, and they locked their gazes on her.

Amelia’s feet were glued to the floor as she was super overwhelmed with their cold stares.

“What is a janitor doing here? Did she miss the way?” A classy-looking woman who sat at Amelia’s right hand side said to her hearing.

Amelia gulped hard and lifted her heavy eyes to look at James. James clenched his jaw as he stared at her.

“Come here.” James kept his jaw clenched as he spoke.

Amelia read James’ lips from where she stood, and she felt her feet come back to life.

She ignored the murmurs around her and dragged her feet to where James was. She reached for the seat and sat on it.

“She is with James Parker? Why would someone like that be with him? She looks like a janitor.”

More discouraging words filled Amelia’s ear, and her eyes heated up rapidly. She bowed her head and began to fiddle with her finger.

“Don’t you dare cry.” James gazed at her and noticed the look on her face.

Immediately Amelia heard his voice, she swallowed the inconvenience she felt in her throat and raised her head. She looked at him and saw him gazing at her with a straight face.

“I think we can start now.”

A smart-looking man stood up from the front seat and everywhere went dead silent. He was the chairman of the General Financial Co-operations.

“Good day everyone. I believe everyone present here has one thing or other to do. So, we’d go straight to the point.”

As he spoke, the manual projector screen behind him slowly wound down, and he turned to look at the screen.

“We all know why we are here. We need two companies that will be joining the GFC this year, and these companies have to deserve this great opportunity.”

Amelia watched the man speak, and she noticed that those that were seated were pulling out files from their bags and everywhere they had kept them.

She hurriedly pulled out the file James had given her and placed it on the table. She opened it and scanned through it again.

After scanning through a few pages, she realized it was a file that talked about the Ja’Park’s Tertiary Company. It was prepared like a presentation.

She looked up and kept listening to the Chairman.

“I’ll be giving the thirteen companies present here today, five minutes to tell us why their company is fit for this opportunity.”

Amelia looked around the table and saw some were smiling and some looked super nervous. Just like how Amelia’s face was.

“Did you hear why we have to be one of the two companies that gets this opportunity?”

James leaned closer to Amelia and as he whispered in her ear, his breath breezed her ear, making her shiver.