Departure with a Belly (Alaric and Victoria) novel Chapter 294

Chapter 294
After Victoria was done preparing the business proposal, she called Alaric again.
“What’s your email address? I’ll send the
“Bring it here.”
Victoria was stunned and heard him say, “I’ll get Terrance to send you the company
address.”
“Can’t I just send it to your email?”
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“Victoria, the amount I’m about to invest is not a small amount, and it’s not only to help
you get by, so you’d better treat this matter seriously.”
After the call ended, Victoria took a deep breath to suppress her temper. Then, she got
up to print out the business proposal she finished,
Once all that was done, Terrance had already texted her the address to Cadogan.
Group’s Jasea branch, so Victoria placed the business proposal into an envelope and
headed out.
She followed the given address and soon arrived at Cadogan Group’s subsidiary
company.
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Even though it was only a subsidiary company, the building looked magnificent, as one
would expect from Cadogan Group. Also, it was no wonder her company suddenly had
a surge of applicants after the news of Cadogan Group investing in her company came
out.
Afterward, Victoria entered the building with her envelope. Despite it being a subsidiary
company, she still needed to make an appointment, and she was smarter this time.
Instead of telling the receptionist she came here to meet Alaric, she said, “Hello, I’ve
made an appointment with Mr. Levane.”
As she thought, the receptionist wasn’t alarmed when hearing Terrance’s name and
looked at Victoria’s professional outfit before nodding. “Sure, ma’am. I’ll help you take a
look.”
A minute later, the receptionist got off the phone and said, “Miss, please use Elevator 5
and head straight to the president’s office on the 16th floor.”
“Thank you.”
Once inside the elevator, Victoria became lost in her thoughts. At first, she thought she
could have a quiet life, but who knew she would have to meet him again because of
work?
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Also, the horrifying truth was that she had no reason to reject him if he used work as an
excuse to order her around.
Once she thought of that, she couldn’t help but pinch the middle of her eyebrows.
Meanwhile, Terrance was waiting outside the elevator and immediately smiled when he
saw her. “Miss Selwyn.”
Victoria nodded and exited the elevator.
“Mr. Cadogan is waiting for you in the office.”
While walking behind Terrance, she quietly observed her surroundings and discovered
the working environment here was slightly worse than in Gandra. Also, this office.
seemed to have recently moved here.
When Terrance led Victoria into the office, Alaric was talking on the phone while
standing beside the floor-to-ceiling window. The tall man with long legs stopped
moving abruptly after hearing the motion from behind and turned around to look at
them. Then, he hinted at Terrance with his gaze, and Terrance left, not forgetting to
considerately close the door behind him.
Victoria was speechless.
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Since Alaric was still on the phone, he only glanced at her when she came in and then
treated her like she was invisible.
It wouldn’t be appropriate for Victoria to leave now, so she waited.
A few minutes later, Alaric got off the phone and put it away before approaching her.
Victoria felt she was instantly attacked by a wave of strong male hormones and the
faint, cold, mint fragrance on him.
His approach made her subconsciously take a few steps backward to maintain their
distance, but he only took away the business proposal in her arms and started flipping
through it.
He had a calm expression while moving quickly, seemingly to be working and not
intending to bother her.
At that instant, Victoria felt like she had thought too badly of him and pursed her lips.
On the other hand, Alaric stood in place, but a frown appeared on his expressionless
face after he read something.
“Who came up with this business proposal?”
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Noticing his tone, Victoria looked at him. “Is there something wrong with it?”
“Did you come up with this?”
She nodded. “Yes, I did. What’s the matter?”
Once she was done speaking, Alaric sneered. “Is this all you’ve learned these past five
years?”
When she heard that, she paled. “What do you mean? Is there a problem with this
proposal?”
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“It’s a waste of time and effort if we use this proposal, and you might as well shut down
your company.”
Although Alaric’s words infuriated Victoria, she knew him well, so she knew he was very
serious when it came to working matters and would never say anything without reason.
Therefore, there must be something wrong with her proposal for him to say such
things.
She was furious but still forced a smile. “So, what is your opinion?”
Alaric glanced at her and said nothing. Instead, he brought the proposal to his desk and
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threw it on the table.
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Seeing that he was ignoring her, Victoria went over with pursed lips. “If there is
something wrong, I can make the changes.”
Alaric replied, “This is trash, so you don’t need to amend anything.”
That rendered Victoria speechless. Was her proposal so bad that it was beyond
amendment and was trash?
She was suddenly skeptical about whether he was making this personal, so she
grabbed the proposal and asked, “Are you sure I need to redo this?”
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Alaric tugged his lips. “I have no objections if you want to use that, but I hope you can
shoulder the losses.”
She spoke up after a moment’s silence. “I understand. If you’re not happy with this.
proposal, I’ll return and start a new one.”
Once she finished, she turned around to leave.
“Did I say you could leave?”
Victoria turned around, confused, and saw Alaric frowning.
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“How much time will it take to go back and forth? Or do you think I have a lot of time to
waste?”
“But it was you who asked me to come here?”
“I did, but did I ask you to leave?” Alaric raised his chin to gesture for her to sit on the
side. “Sit there and redo the proposal here.”
If Victoria thought his judgment of her business proposal was correct before, she was
beginning to doubt her judgment. Why did he have to make her stay to write a new one
when she could just return to her company?
Seeing that she wasn’t moving, Alaric narrowed his eyes. “Are you sure you can come
up with a satisfactory proposal after returning to your company?”
When Victoria heard that, she retorted, “Are you meaning to say that I can come up with
something satisfactory as long as I stay here?”
“You can make amendments on the go. It must be finalized today.”
Silence.
Once he was done, he didn’t wait for a reply and sat in his spot.
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Victoria stood there momentarily and finally decided to sit in her designated spot.
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After sitting down, Alaric gave her a laptop. “Use my spare laptop.”
When Victoria took it from him, she subconsciously thanked him out of politeness,
shocking them both.
A few seconds later, Alaric’s face was as dark as coal. Had their relationship become so
estranged that they were so formal with each other?
“What’s the password?”
It was until he heard Victoria’s voice that he snapped out of his thoughts and looked at
her. “You’re birthdate.”
Victoria froze.