Joan stared at Luana's retreating figure, grinding her teeth in anger and cursing, "Luana, we're not done yet!"
Luana pretended not to hear it and walked straight into the restroom.
The humiliations she had endured in the past were all vented out today.
She couldn't quite describe how she felt, but she knew she should have done this long ago.
She turned on the faucet, intending to wash her face, when Sabrina walked in.
Sabrina had just left to buy coffee for everyone in the CEO's office and happened to witness Joan cursing at Luana, so she hurriedly followed Luana into the restroom.
"Luana, are you okay?"
Sabrina wasn't clear about what had happened, but seeing Luana's expression, she guessed that Joan must have said something unpleasant.
She knew Luana had always been rather soft-spoken and thought that Luana might have been bullied badly by Joan just now.
Luana saw Sabrina's worried face and felt much more comfortable then. Her originally irritable heart gradually calmed down.
"I'm fine."
"Really?"
Sabrina's face was full of doubt. She knew Luana too well. Even if she was wronged, she would always endure it silently.
"I'm fine, really. Don't worry about me. Go back to work. If Joan can't find you later, she will blame you for being lazy."
Sabrina was an intern, working under Joan.
Before Luana and Joan completely fell out, they got along quite well on the surface.
But now that it had come to this, if Joan saw Sabrina still close to Luana, she would definitely play tricks on Sabrina behind her back.
Sabrina had just barely entered Winward as an intern, hoping to be recommended by Joan to become a regular employee. Luana didn't want to involve her.
Sabrina seemed to realize this too. She hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go back to work first."
Luana smiled and waved at her, saying, "Go ahead."
Sabrina then turned and left the restroom.
As soon as she left, the smile on Luana's face disappeared.
Runa meant that during Calvert's stay in Los Angeles, Luana would represent the Ortega family to host him.
In Winward's daily operations, when partners came to the Ortega family-related enterprises on business trips, arranging for special personnel to host them was not rare.
The reception work usually included arranging the clothing, food, housing, transportation, and planning leisure and entertainment activities, etc.
However, this kind of reception was usually for partners who came to the Ortega family to discuss cooperation matters.
Calvert's visit this time was obviously for the Moriarty Group's bidding conference, and had nothing to do with the Ortega family in terms of business.
But Runa, to develop Winward International's Washington branch, asked Luana to ingratiate herself with Calvert.
Luana thought of her own and Calvert's unspeakable past, and had to swallow her pride to host him, which made her extremely reluctant.
She was worried that doing so would make Calvert mistakenly think that she was still unrepentant, deliberately approaching him under the pretext of work.
At the same time, Cline might also think she was audacious to ignore his warning and continue entangling with his future family.
The thought of being misunderstood by Calvert and Cline made Luana feel embarrassed.
However, embarrassment seemed less unbearable compared to paying the massive penalty.
Luana took a deep breath, took out her phone, and found Calvert's phone number.
This was the information she got from his assistant when she booked the hotel for him yesterday.
The phone rang three times and was answered, with Calvert's steady voice coming from the other end.
"Miss Hammond, is there something?"
Luana was stunned for a moment. How did Calvert know it was her?
"I saved your number yesterday," Calvert explained as if knowing her surprise.
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Luana didn't ask further and got straight to the point, saying, "Mr. Coburn, the thing is, Mr. Ortega asked me to host you on behalf of the Ortega family during this period. Is there anything you want to share with me?"
"Host me?" Calvert was somewhat surprised.
"Yes," Luana replied.
Not only was Calvert surprised to hear this request, but she felt speechless.
After a moment of silence, as if understanding something, he replied, "I came to Los Angeles on a business trip and happened not to bring my personal assistant. How about troubling you to help me with some tea-serving and other tasks?"
Luana thought he would refuse, but unexpectedly, he asked her to be his personal assistant. Wasn't he afraid that she had ulterior motives?
Although she was doubtful, she still agreed, "Okay."
Calvert looked at his wristwatch and said, "I have a meeting later. When do you plan to come over?"
After asking for the address, Luana replied, "I can come over at any time."
Calvert said, "Okay," and hung up the phone.