Rebirth Revenge Is Everything (Ariana) novel Chapter 282

It was unclear whether it was a coincidence or not, but Lambert could not be reached on his phone at the moment. Ariana suspected that he might be in a meeting.

After all, they've been working a lot on their game recently, and he seemed to be doing overtime quite often, so much so that the duo had less time to speak lately.

Thus, after a bit of thought, Ariana decided not to attempt another call but to wait for a while longer at the front desk. She planned to call again after guessing his meeting had ended. Her only hope was that the thermal box she held would keep the food warm, so it wouldn't be cold when she went up.

And so, Ariana began her quiet wait.

Little did she know, her reluctance to trouble the front desk or interrupt Lambert's meeting led the receptionist to mistakenly believe she must be a lover who had long fallen out of favor.

Seeing her state, the receptionist thought, she must be here to reconcile today.

At this thought, the receptionist's smile faded a bit. She glanced at Ariana indifferently, then returned to her post.

However, as time passed second by second, the front desk's attitude toward Ariana grew colder.

After all, they hadn't heard of any lovers who didn’t have Stone's phone number.

And she was waiting so submissively.

The more they saw her, the more they thought she was some woman clinging to Mr. Stone. Perhaps even a gold digger. With this thought, the receptionist covertly took out her phone and posted Ariana's stolen side profile photo to her chat group, writing, "Another bird trying to fly into the boughs. Tsk tsk."

Soon, her colleagues joined in laughing, "This is very normal, after all, our Mr. Stone is so rich and handsome. What a pity he's married! Otherwise, I would even chase after him, lol."

Another colleague quickly chimed in, “Speaking of, Mr. Stone's wife has never come here once. She seems unwanted.”

The receptionist glanced at the replies and added her own comment, “She probably lacks charm. Otherwise, why would Mr. Stone have so many lovers? To my knowledge, Mrs. Stone never visited the office. It's most likely a business marriage, without much affection."

This is a social group of some employees from the Lamari Company.

Lots of company gossip is discussed here, including the recurrent topic of President Stone's lovers.

Everyone chats happily.

As such, when Ariana showed up, these members naturally mistook her for one of the previous lovers. Therefore, there were some condescending tones in their comments. However, if you look carefully, you will see that most of the people posting messages are secretaries or workers from other departments holding non-executive positions. The majority of them are young women who recently joined the company.

Little did Ariana know that people were discussing her at this moment. She glanced at the time and couldn't help but frown a bit.

She picked up her phone to dial a number again.

No one was answering.

Ariana furrowed her brows, then walked to the reception desk. Smiling politely at the receptionist, she said, "Could you please dial President Stone's office number for me? I can't get through to his private number."

Unlike before, the receptionist only glanced at her indifferently, then said coldly, "Sorry, unless it's an important matter, we can't disturb President Stone in his office."

Suddenly, a woman's voice cried out, "What is happening here?"

The receptionist's eyes brightened at the sight of this woman. She was one of Lambert's newly hired assistants. It was worth mentioning that she was Stefan's distant cousin. Her relationship with Stefan wasn't very good, but she was very close to Stefan’s sister and thus was able to work at the Stone Corporation.

She was beautiful and carried herself with an air of arrogance. Everyone in the company knew her identity so they were quite apprehensive of her.

Upon seeing her, the receptionist immediately explained, "Assistant Flynn, this woman wanted to see Mr. Stone. I told her that she needed an appointment to see him, but she tried to take the phone out of my hands to call Mr. Stone herself. That instigated the dispute."

Ariana: "..."

Wait, was that how the event proceeded? How did she not know?

Ariana was speechless but more surprised and amused; she certainly wasn't expecting such a drastic change at the company after not visiting for just a few months.

The girl, known as Assistant Flynn, slowly turned her gaze toward Ariana. Ariana also looked back at her.

This girl seemed to be either a college intern or a recent graduate - anyway, she was young, though still a couple of years older than Ariana.

Zara Flynn was also pondering these points at this time.

Seeing the immature facade of this young girl, she sneered and said, "Tsk, little girl, it's better to focus on your studies right now instead of mimicking some shady gold-diggers, proud to be second wives. I bet you're just in your freshman or sophomore year of college right? You should go back to your school. Walk the right path and stop resorting to lowly tactics that make people look down on you."