Billionaire's Hidden Princess by Alegna Ciee (most popular novels txt) 📖

Chapter Twenty-Three: His First Unmasking

A moment after Leticia received the second love confession that she had in her entire life, she found herself in a stifling position.

Without uttering any word, Livius just continued to grip her hand tightly and took her all the way out of the building. He didn’t speak at all even after he disrupted Gabriel’s confession by hauling her away before he could spout out another word.

After that, he took her straight to his car.

Now, Leticia is sitting all tensed beside Livius. His eyes only remained focused on the road ahead of them, driving to a place she had no idea about.

“Umm… Livi…?” she tried to call, earning a small hum from him.

“H-How did you know that I came?”

 “My secretary told me…” he trailed off after a while of keeping quiet.

“He said he saw you step out of the elevator with the model from the agency we’re currently working together with.”

“O-Oh, your secretary knows me?”

“And so should everyone. I can’t believe the receptionist just shooed you away like that.”

Livius recalls how Ian informs him of a sighting of his girlfriend inside the building. It happened right after the board meeting, and he’s supposed to have another discussion with some of the members in the next hour.

But after learning that Leticia came with another guy – without his knowledge at that, he had lost his cool almost instantly. What’s more, Ian easily recognized her companion as that popular model, Gabriel, and the same guy who saw them making out in an empty classroom back then.

Livius could already tell by his reaction that time – he’s aware that he sees Leticia as someone more than a mere classmate.

With those in mind, he had let his rampaging emotions get the best of him that time. He ended up not finishing his business with the other board members as a result.

Right then as well, he happened to receive a call from the receptionist, informing him of a girl named Leticia Selene. That woman even sounded a bit proud that she managed not to let her pass, reasoning out that she could just be one of his audacious and delusional fans.

Because of that, the female receptionist got fired right then and there – no further excuses nor explanations.

Though Livius knows that it’s unreasonable since no one but his secretary is aware of him being in a relationship, he still can’t help but be peeved to a certain degree. In all actuality, everything about this cascading chain of revelations miffed him.

“L-Livi… A-About that… The truth is, Gabriel just helped me get past the receptionist that time. I decided to visit you but failed to consider how exactly I’d be able to get to you. I’m sorry for being ignorant of the protocols of your workplace,” Leticia started once more, fiddling with her fingers nervously and keeping herself together.

“Why didn’t you just tell me that you’d be coming?” Livius asked, voice a bit hoarse and vehement.

“T-That’s because I…”

She then finds herself faltering out of nowhere, feeling like she can’t see it in herself to suddenly reveal that she’s planning to surprise him. For some reason, she’s still thinking of seeing this lunch date through until the end.

It might even brighten up his dampened mood and turn this day around.

Though still concerned about that whole love confession earlier, Leticia wants to set her priorities in order. She doesn’t want to give in to the way things are going south today.

“What took you so long to answer, Eya?”

That’s until Livius suddenly parks the car beside the sidewalk and finally decides to give his undivided attention to her. Leticia is taken aback to find him wearing a smirk, which only comes out a bit intimidating since his half-lidded eyes are brimming with a clamorous emotion.

A dark glint is coating his pupils as if laying out another thick layer to this façade of his. He’s smirking but far from pleased. He’s calmly staring at her straight in the eye but far from cool and composed inside.

Leticia doesn’t know what to make of this uncalled-for side of him. He’s behaving as the same collected gentleman that he is like usual, but for some reason, she can sense that he’s nowhere collected at all.

Livius had never been this inscrutable before.

 “Still not telling me, huh?”

Already at his limits, he leans forward and unceremoniously slams her onto the car window, stretching out his arms on both sides of her faces to trap her in between. His hot lips then crash onto hers with uncontainable ferocity, making her gasp and blush in surprise.   

Leticia is almost knocked out of breath at the abruptness of his movements. Livius is now feasting on her lips like a ravening wolf, savoring them with much vigor and eagerness.

The way he suddenly changed his pace got her worried a little, though. She’s now convinced that what Gabriel did has affected him in a way that she thought it wouldn’t be.

She tried not to waver, giving back the equal amount of passion as a way to reassure him. Even then, she couldn’t help but feel a bit dizzy – almost as if she’s intoxicated by how he’s wrapping her with overflowing affection.

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