Chapter 50: A Visit From Daddy
"Rearrange my meeting with Mr. Keplenski to tomorrow, 4 PM." Matteo didn’t look up from his documents. His eyes poured over every word before turning to the computer screen, his slender fingers rapidly keying.
"Yes, Mr. Montgomery," Amelia instinctively said. Only then did she gain Matteo’s glance. His eyes moved to look at her, peering past his monitor, and she inhaled deeply. "Sorry. Matteo."
That earned her a small satisfied curve of his lips before he returned to work.
It took Amelia all the courage she had to set foot into the office after what happened the previous night.
Contrary to her belief, the tabloids went wild with the news even though everything was cleared up. From the different news sources, she had been named a gold-digging hussy who was willing to sleep with old men just to climb the social ladder, all the way to a third-party homewrecker who was out to ruin Matteo and Emmeline’s engagement.
The headlines were wild, written in bold and plastered all over every entertainment news outlet possible, including Lady Vanity, which was, unfortunately, the office’s favorite magazine among the female staff.
Everyone who had laid eyes on the magazines and websites within the last twelve hours had shot her odd looks when she entered the office behind Matteo. However, none of them dared to confront her as openly as they did before― Matteo Montgomery himself had announced her as his fiancée, not Emmeline. Unless they didn’t mind getting fired and then blacklisted from the industry, they would think twice before saying anything to Amelia’s face.
"―gomery, you cannot go in there―!"
Ronan’s voice was abruptly cut off by the slamming of doors. In stormed an older man, somewhere in his fifties, his graying hair neatly slicked back as he adorned a pressed suit. His eyes scanned the office before landing on Amelia, and instantly, a scowl shaped his lips.