Love and Devotion No Longer His to Claim by Dream Fish

Chapter 212

When Angela arrived at the company, she planned to head straight up but was unexpectedly stopped at the front desk.

"May I ask who you are here to see? Do you have an appointment?" The receptionist was a pretty young woman, likely in her early 20s and freshly graduated from college.

Not wanting to make things difficult for her, Angela simply said, "I'm Angela Graham."

The receptionist looked utterly confused. "I don't know you. Please show your employee ID, or if you have an appointment with someone, you can ask them to call me."

It was the morning rush hour for the employees as they were all swiping their cards to enter. Seeing Angela being held up alone, many passing employees cast curious glances in her direction.

"Who is she? She's rather good-looking, but why is she being stopped?"

"Who knows? Maybe she's waiting for someone."

"Did you hear? Our company's getting a new CEO today. It's too bad we low-level employees won't even get to see what they look like."

With people coming and going, Angela couldn't help feeling a bit exasperated.

her phone, opened the company's group chat, and showed it to the

deliberately making things difficult for her, but she

be long before those sneaky troublemakers hiding

panic flashed in the receptionist's eyes, but she still refused to back down and stubbornly said, "Ma'am, if you don't have an appointment, please leave.

quite loud; she clearly intended to

getting fired? Or did someone promise

there's no such thing. Ma'am, please don't

do you mean make things difficult? This is our new CEO-how can you speak to her like that?" At that moment, a sharply dressed man strode over,

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on? This wasn't

inexperienced for not

HR department, who was about 40 years old.

extremely slick-he knew how to play both sides and flatter his superiors, so he

said to the receptionist, "You useless fool, pack your things