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Chapter 377 Double-Booked
Inside the car, a man dressed in a black suit ducked out of the car before standing up straight to reveal
his tall figure.
His fair skin was exposed in the brief moment he ducked his head down.
He glanced at the luxury watch on his wrist with a blank yet stern face. Then, he strode into the hotel.
…
By the time Amelie got back from her meeting with the detective agency, it was already 10.00PM.
The hazy lights of this foreign land might twinkle warmly down at her, but it was not home.
She was surrounded by plenty of exquisite and luxurious shops, yet she did not stop by any of them.
Instead, she headed straight into the hotel.
She got into the hotel and did not stop walking until she got to her room.
After taking out her keycard, she tapped it against the lock.
Beep! The door swung open.
As she massaged her forehead, she decided to take a shower before messaging Bria and Steven.
Just as she thought about that, she heard a clack.
She snapped her head up in shock to see a man walking out of the bathroom.
He had clearly just taken a shower as he was dressed in only a towel wrapped around his waist while
his muscular body was exposed.
Drops of water slid off his black hair and down his chest before sinking into his towel.
Framed by his wet hair was his brooding, handsome, and stern face.
They both stared at each other in shock.
"Leo?" she called out in disbelief. It took her a few seconds to recognize him.
Amelie rubbed her eyes, thinking she was hallucinating. Why else would she be seeing Leo when she
was in a foreign nation?
He was even in her hotel room.
She soon noticed the gray luggage bag standing near his feet.
She recognized that bag; it was the bag Leo had taken with him on business trips for years.
"Why are you in my room?" she asked with a hostile look in her eyes.
It was only then that he looked away and jerked his head at the nearby table. "I booked this room."
"You did?" She spotted the card on the table. Immediately, several impossible guesses flashed through
her mind.
She swiftly walked over to the phone to call the front desk.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtSoon, the hotel manager was at the door with another employee standing beside him.
"My sincerest apologies. The new staff was careless and forgot the room had been booked out. That's
why…" The manager repeatedly apologized and bowed, along with the other employee standing
beside him.
It was evident either Amelie or Leo needed to move out of this room.
As Leo booked the room before she did, she naturally was the one to move out.
Not wanting to waste more time on this matter, she grabbed her bag from the closet. "Give me a new
room then."
The bitter look on the manager's face deepened. "My apologies, but we are fully booked. We have no
vacant rooms."
"What about other hotels?"
When the manager saw how calm and forgiving she was, he quickly contacted the other hotels.
However, after a whole round of calls, he slunk back to her with a cowering look on their face. "I'm
sorry, but the nearby hotels are all booked as well."
There was a huge event happening the next day, so all the hotels had been booked.
The manager secretly shot a glare at the employee who had made the mistake. Oh, how he hated the
employee now.
What an absolutely useless fool!
Every hotel was fully booked out. How were they going to resolve this?
Anyone who could afford to stay in these rooms was people of high ranking. The hotel could not afford
to make an enemy of them.
The manager's face was pale with worry.
When Amelie heard that the hotels were all booked out, she tightly pursed her lips as her eyes went
dark.
Just as the trio was staring at each other in silence, Leo cleared his throat and interrupted, "There are
two rooms in this suite. We can take one each."
The manager's eyes lit up when he said that.
Similarly, hope was shimmering in the eyes of the employee that had turned red in terror.
The two of them turned to Amelie, waiting on her decision.
Since she was so forgiving, surely she would agree to that suggestion.
"It's fine," she said, rejecting the offer. "Since there are no hotels with vacant rooms, I'll go to a hostel."
"That…" While the manager found that rather distasteful, he did not dare say anything.
After all, he could not resolve the situation.
Not wanting to waste more time, she grabbed her bag to walk out of the room.
"Hostels aren't safe, and you're in a foreign nation. What if something dangerous happens?" Leo
stepped forward to block the way out.
He was still only dressed in a towel, and his muscular body was still dripping wet when he stepped right
in front of her face.
As she was rarely so close to other men, her face immediately blushed red as she stepped backward.
She did not change her mind though. "This is my personal business. You need not worry, Mr. Alston."
The manager immediately realized that the two knew each other after hearing her call Leo's name.
No wonder Leo was so generous as to give her a room.
The manager also realized the relationship between the couple was not an average friendship, so he
decided to play dead and avoid interrupting their conversation.
The employee who had made the mistake still did not know if he could keep his job. Worried about his
future, he naturally could not be bothered to interrupt the conversation.
Amelie's cold response made Leo frown.
He soon turned around and picked up his jacket from beside him. "You can have the suite. I'll stay with
Eugene."
Hearing that Eugene had space for him, she stopped resisting. "Thank you," she said.
He silently headed into the bathroom to get dressed.
Seeing that everything had been resolved, the manager apologized to Amelie once more and promised
to waive her fee as an apology.
With that said, he left the room with the employee in tow.
She placed her luggage back into the closet.
When she turned back around, Leo was fully dressed and walking out of the bathroom.
His tall figure and handsome face still made him a beautiful sight to behold, even if he was extremely
brooding and stern.
She politely inclined her head.
"Hello, the meal you've ordered is here," an employee politely called out from the other side of the door
after knocking.
She turned around and found the employee pushing an extravagant cart of food.
There was more than two individuals' worth of food on it.
"I didn't order any of this," Amelie said as she stared at the plates of exquisite food.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmShe had only ordered an average-looking bowl of pasta to satisfy her hunger.
"The manager has upgraded your meal," the employee said smoothly before placing the bowl of pasta
Amelie ordered on the table. The rest of the food was soon loaded onto the table as well.
Soon, there was a feast laid out on the table.
Once every dish was served, the employee politely nodded to them before leaving.
As Amelie looked at the table full of food, she knew this was the manager's way of apologizing for the
mistake made just now.
She could not finish all the food by herself. Obviously, it would be a waste.
"Why don't you stay and share this meal with me?" she offered.
No matter how much she did not want to associate with Leo, she was not so spoiled as to avoid even
sharing a meal with him.
Moreover, he had offered the room without prompting, saving her from having to roam the streets.
He calmly turned to look at the table. It took him a while to think before he finally agreed.
Seeing that, she immediately sat down at the table without a second word.
He sat down in the chair across from her.
The table was quite large. Since they were sitting across from each other, the gap between them was
clearly felt.
She was happy about that, though.
She picked up her cutlery and said, "Help yourself, Mr. Alston."
Then, she focused her attention on the food as he began to eat as well.
The two of them did not interact at all after that, and there was an intense silence in the air.
Leo was someone who moved very carefully, so he never made a sound when he ate. Amelie, too, was
the same as well.
Thus, no one might have realized the room was occupied.
Clink! Due to the excessive silence, the sound of the spoon falling to the ground rang loudly.
Amelie glanced down at her spoon clattering on the floor and ducked down to grab it.
Instead of the spoon, she grabbed another hand.
Evidently, Leo had ducked down as well to pick up her spoon.
The moment she touched him, he froze as emotions warred in his eyes.
"It's dirty. You should get a new one." He placed the spoon on the table and gestured at the spare
cutlery.
He then turned and walked into the bathroom.
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