One Night Surprise - Season 2 Episode 13

The roses in the room and the apology card slightly cleared the depressive mood that troubled Courtney for the past two days. However, after she calmed herself down, she still felt gloomy. Alexander doesn’t seem like the cold man that he always portrays to be. What I understood after interacting with him for a long time is that he is responsible toward the women and children around him, but this isn’t the reason why I should be relieved to leave Jordan by his side.

Due to her concern for Jordan’s situation, she was continuously in touch with the hospital and she was notified that his vomiting was not caused by food poisoning but a fever. However, she did not feel relieved and was instead more upset after hearing the reason.

In her eyes, even though Alexander loved Jordan with all his heart, he still was not careful enough to take care of his son. Judging from the fact that a chandelier almost dropped on Jordan’s head when they first met combined with the occasional sickness he endured afterward, it was clear to her that Alexander had not been taking good care of him for the past few years. I should find an opportunity to talk to him about the kid.

Just as she thought about it, her assistant, Addie, returned after knocking on the door.

“Miss Hunter, we just received a call from headquarters saying that there will be a provisional inspection. President Duncan and a few senior members from the board of directors will arrive here in a while to inspect the hotel. Should we prepare to welcome them?”

Courtney came around and answered, “No need for any special preparations. Just act normal like we usually do. When are they arriving?”

“The headquarters informed that President Duncan has already left and he should probably be arriving in 15 minutes.”

“Alright. Inform Mr. Webb, who is in charge of the lobby today, to choose a few supervisors to follow me and welcome them. The others can just go on with their usual work.”

After a few instructions, Courtney tidied up her uniform and calmly walked out of her office. Alexander isn’t the kind of person who likes to show off. If he and the board of directors are coming here for an inspection, they will usually want to see how the hotel operates. A person with confidence naturally won’t panic in this situation.

Not long after she headed downstairs, three black luxurious cars parked in front of the hotel entrance one after another. Subsequently, several men in suits and leather shoes alighted from the car and walked into the hotel shoulder to shoulder with Alexander. They were all in their 40s to 50s and they were all members of the board of directors without question.

As Courtney glanced at Alexander, she thought about the flowers in her office, which caused her eyes to fill with joy. Then, she nodded her head at him. “Hello, President Duncan.”

After greeting the others one by one, Mr. Webb introduced them to Courtney. “I don’t think President Duncan needs much introduction. These two gentlemen are Mr. Morris and Mr. Woods of the board of directors. I assume you haven’t met them before, Miss Hunter.”

Courtney bowed slightly and took the initiative to shake their hands.

The two board members wore a stern expression and did not smile or say anything along the way. They only stated that they wanted to check the hotel’s environment, so she arranged for two supervisors to lead them around while she followed behind with confusion and nervousness.

When the two board members visited the rooms, they kept on pointing and mentioning the colors of the curtains while Alexander listened and nodded his head from time to time.

As for Courtney, she held onto her notebook and continued to record what they were saying. Even though she did not know what they were doing, she wanted to record it just to be on the safe side

After being busy for a while, the two board members proposed to have the senior officials of the hotel gather at the meeting room to have an ad hoc meeting ten minutes later.

Therefore, Mr. Webb went to organize the meeting while she returned to her office to gather some documents. The moment she arrived at the door, she ran into Alexander who had returned from the washroom.

“President Duncan.” She greeted politely and hesitated for a second before asking, “I’ve never heard of directors coming here to observe the hotel’s environment, so why are the two board members suddenly coming here to inspect? Is there something going on?”

Alexander glanced at her with a faint surprise in his eyes as he explained solemnly, “There will be important guests coming to the city for a meeting in two days. If I’m not mistaken, they’ll be staying here. To prevent any accidents from happening, the board members decided to come here first to check out the surroundings.”

Ever since he said those harsh words to her in the hospital that day, they never contacted each other again, so he was surprised that she was able to pretend that nothing had ever happened, as if she never took that incident to heart.

“There will be important guests staying here?” Her expression became stern, so she did not realize the change of emotions in his eyes. “By then, do we need to ask the other occupants staying in the hotel to leave? Should we increase the security too?”

“About that… That is what we’ll discuss in the meeting later on.”

Courtney nodded and opened her office door. “Then, I’ll take my documents to the meeting now.”

The moment the door was opened, a strong fragrant scent of roses entered their noses. Just as Alexander was about to leave, he halted his steps and instinctively glanced inside the door before seeing a bunch of dazzling roses that filled up the whole office.

Immediately, his brows tightened to form deep lines on his forehead. No wonder she doesn’t care about what happened in the hospital that day. Looks like she has been busy lately.

“About security—” Courtney came out with her documents, but before she could finish her words, she realized that he did not wait for her at the door. Suddenly, she felt a little awkward, but fortunately, no one was around to see it, so she let out a few dry coughs before heading toward the meeting room.

The content discussed during the meeting was exactly as what Alexander mentioned. The two board members had arrived to discuss the impending reception of the important guests in a few days’ time. The points they brought up were indeed security and the service aspect of the hotel while also emphasizing on the menu.

“When will the important guests check into the hotel?”

“Three days later.”

“It’s too rushed. What about the guests staying in the hotel during this period?” Courtney furrowed her brows. “We can handle the ones who have made their reservations, but what about the ones who are already staying here?”

Everyone at the meeting table looked at each other. This is really a problem. If we cancel all reservations and ask the guests who are staying here to check out within three days, they will definitely criticize us. After all, nobody wants to spontaneously change hotels for no reason.

Amidst everyone’s discussion, a cold and stern voice stood out among the others. “If you need to ask us for a solution because of a small matter like this, what is the point of hiring you to be in charge of the hotel?”

His words were direct without any use of euphemism. For a moment, everyone in the meeting room was startled as they held onto their breath and stared at her with sympathetic eyes.

Courtney was also dumbfounded while she pursed her lips. “I see; I’ll try my best to settle the problem.”

“I don’t want you to try your best because this is a must. When I first hired you as the hotel’s manager, you should clearly know that I chose you not because of your fake qualifications.” Alexander ruthlessly rectified her and his eyes grew cold, as if they were wrapped in the frost of winter, making others afraid to look directly at him.

At first, it was reasonable for him to be dissatisfied with her work, but his words now clearly indicated that he was intentionally targeting her and even tried to bring up her previous incident with the fake resume.

On the other hand, Courtney looked extremely embarrassed.

After the meeting, everyone quickly dispersed and Alexander left the hotel without turning his head to have a word with her.

Everyone stood at the hotel’s entrance and watched while he and the two board members drove away. Finally, all of them let out a collective sigh of relief.

Standing beside Courtney, Addie whispered, “Miss Hunter, did you do something to offend President Duncan?”

At the moment, her brows had deeply tightened as she glared at him angrily. “Who knows? He’s crazy.” Isn’t this weird? He just sent me flowers this morning, so why did he completely change this evening?