Chapter 47 - Dinner meeting with clients (1/2)

At 7.30pm, Finland arrived in front of De Lune Restaurant. Because no one knew who she was, Finland was dropped off at the restaurant front.

She was wearing an expensive dress from the latest La Pearl collection and the doorkeeper, who saw her coming out of a fancy Rolls Royce car, greeted her warmly and opened the door for her.

”My office has a reservation here, LTX International.” Finland said at the reception.

”Fine, Miss. Please come with me.”

Finland was directed to the VIP dining room which was separated from the main restaurant. Lilly and Tony were already sitting at the table. They arrived a few minutes before her.

They were both impressed by Finland's appearance.

”Your clothes are very nice,” said Lily earnestly. ”This is the latest collection of House of La Pearl that just came out last week. Where did you get such a well-made counterfeit version? At a glance, people will think you are wearing their original dress.”

Finland shook her head trying to humble, ”Nice, huh? Thank you, I just grabbed it without giving it much thought.”

Of course, because Finland was a poor employee, Lily thought that the expensive-looking clothes worn by Finland were fake goods or counterfeits. Finland was not bothered by it. The important thing was that she looked good according to the demands of her role.

”We arrived five minutes early. Our client will come soon.” Tony said later.

Sure enough, five minutes later three American men arrived; one was of Chinese descent, two were white men. They entered the room and introduced themselves as people from Atlas Corp.

”Please, let me introduce my colleagues. This is William Chan, our engineering director who happened to stop by on his way to Beijing. I am Noah Janssen, the Marketing Manager, and this is Jonathan Brown's, the Marketing Manager Assistant.”

They all shook hands with each other, and Tony Wu turned to introduce his team.

”This is Lily, she's my assistant at marketing for the East Asia region, and this is Finland for Southeast Asia. We can't wait to work with Atlas Corp.” he said.

They then ordered food and talked about business in a warm and friendly atmosphere. It was clear that Finland's beauty interested the guests from Atlas Corp. The three of them, especially Noah, were talking more to Finland than to Tony or Lily.

Noah was an attractive 30 something year-old man. He was handsome but certainly nothing compared to Caspar. He could not take his eyes off Finland and this made the girl a little nervous. She ate slowly and only answered to Noah's questions as needed.

[Jean... please help me...]

She finally sent a text to Jean asking for help.

[What is wrong?]

[I'm having dinner with a company client. One person is rather flirty and I find it hard to find a way to make him realize that I'm not interested in him.]

[Where are you?]