I've Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 54

Although Manager Xu didn’t know who Big Boss was, she knew that the person behind the Royal Club must be pretty powerful, which was the reason why the Royal Club could stand firm in S City.

At this moment, Gloria was telling her that the one who had rescued Grace James was the most mysterious "Big Boss".

“Big Boss” was just a name for the powerful backer behind Royal Club.

Manager Xu's legs went weak. And she fell to the ground with her head buzzing. Gloria didn't make the situation particularly explicit. However, what she had said was sufficient to make Manager Xu understand some things.

Manager Xu felt that her brain was in a mess. And suddenly, she was enlightened, looked up abruptly, and shouted: "As for Grace’s whereabouts today, I do not know it. Gloria, wait a moment. I'll go and have an investigation."

Manager Xu thought, “It must be someone with ill-intentions who has got Grace on board.”

If she had known that the shabby Grace James had an unclear and ambiguous relationship with the “Big Boss”, she would never have found Grace an eyesore… Anyway, she didn’t want to die.

Gloria got suspicious. She did somewhat know this Manager Xu, who wouldn’t necessarily tell her such a lie.

However, if Manager Xu hadn’t made such an arrangement, then Grace James... On the other side, Manager Xu ran out in person and asked whoever she ran into, "Where is she?"

"Huh?"

"Grace James! Where is she?"

"She is, she is in the lounge. Manager Xu, why are you looking for Grace James… "

Before the speaker could finish her words, Manager Xu ran away like a gust of wind.

"Er… "

"Did this Grace James do something again? How come Gloria was here and forced Manager Xu to find her personally?"

"What should you care about her?"

"Your words do make sense."

The employees went on with their discussion. Manager Xu ran into the restroom as if she were a whirlwind, "Grace James, you…" she got used to talking to Grace James in a condescending manner. Suddenly, she remembered Gloria's words, coughed awkwardly, and softened her tone.

"Are you okay?"

Grace was baffled, wondering why Manager Xu cared about her.

"I am fine."

"I… am here to ask you about the issue happening in the VIP box on the sixth floor today."

Grace stiffened all over.

"Don't be nervous." Manager Xu reassured her, "I just wanted to ask that why did you go to the box on the sixth floor since I didn’t arrange any work for you on the sixth floor today?"

As she asked Grace, she thought to herself, “Could it be that this Grace James was greedy for money? After all, despite the fact that what Grace had done was suppressed, everyone in Royal Club knew what she did.”

“If she could disregard her dignity for money’s sake, then she might also be willing to die for money.”

"Someone asked me to go there." Grace didn't overthink it. Besides, she just thought that Manager Xu was just asking this as a routine inquiry. After all, Manger Xu hadn’t made any arrangements for her. And yet she had run to the VIP box on the sixth floor, which was always not good.

In the meantime, Manager Xu raised her eyebrows, "Who is it?" She stared at Grace instantly in a sharp manner.

"I don't know. I think it was a request from the client, who personally asked me to go over there."

"In that case, after you were there, was there any staff in the box?" Manager Xu, who was experienced anyway, got down to the point right away.

"Ru…" As Grace was about to say Ruby Carter’s name, she suddenly stopped.

As Grace, who was not stupid, thought what Manager Xu had asked her over and over again, she got her point abruptly, knowing that Manager Xu was not only doing a routinary checkup but also gathering information from her.

She pursed her lips. It wasn't that she didn't loathe Ruby Carter. It was just that she didn't want to talk behind others’ backs.

Manager Xu asked again, "Who is it?"

Manager Xu stared at Grace in front of her. However, Grace remained silent and didn’t say a word.

Helplessness flashed through Manager Xu's eyes. And then she looked at Grace and patted her shoulders, "Then you should have a good rest…" All of a sudden, Manager Xu stared at the clothes beneath her, which Grace was wearing, with her eyes wide in surprise.

She had been anxious and focusing on getting an answer from Grace just now. So she hadn't noticed what Grace was wearing.

At this moment, Manager Xu fixed her gaze on the clothes on Grace's body.

Grace had put the hem of the shirt into her pants to go. The sweatpants were more neutral, which men and women could both wear.

Despite that, it could be vaguely seen that the pants were for men.

Manager Xu was shocked and took a good look at Grace… She thought, “There is nothing special about this Grace. How come she… ”

"Ahem, I'm leaving first."

Manager Xu turned her head and left as she was in a psychological mess.

Gloria was following behind Manager Xu. But she didn't go into the lounge. Instead, she folded her arms and leaned against the wall next to the door of the lounge. Through a door, she naturally heard the conversation between the two people in the room. Although she didn’t hear all the conversation clearly, what she heard was sufficient.

When Manager Xu came out, Gloria had a look at Grace in the room through the gap in the door. Seeing that she wasn't too bad, Gloria was relieved.

As soon as Manager Xu came out, she saw Gloria. And when Gloria lifted her feet and left, Manager Xu immediately followed her.

"Something fishy is going on here.” Manager Xu voiced her opinion, "She said that the customer personally had asked her to go there and there was an employee in the box. Now we just don't know who this employee who was present at the time is."

Gloria pulled out her phone and directly called Kirk, "When you guys went into the box, who was present at the time? Were there any employees in the uniform of the Royal Club?"

Kirk over the phone said unambiguously, "There was a girl, looking quite innocent. But I don't know her name…" He paused and mentioned, "But I always thought I was somewhat familiar about that girl. "

Of course, Kirk was familiar with that girl. The reason why Grace would mess with Caden again after she was released from prison in the first place was to give Ruby Carter a hand.

"If I showed you the photo, could you recognize her?"

"Yes."

"Okay then, I'm going back to my office now. Come to my office." Gloria hung up the phone and immediately called the staff of the HR department, "Sort out the information of the current employees who joined Royal Club right away and send it to my email immediately."

Manager Xu was a little embarrassed and called out to Gloria with a hot face, "Gloria, I… " "Your matter will be discussed later. I have to deal with other matters on my side."

Hearing Gloria saying so, Manager Xu was relieved instead. What Gloria had said meant that there was some room for “discussion”. If there was no room for maneuver, Gloria wouldn’t have needed to say that she would discuss her matter later on.

Gloria hurriedly went to her office.

Kirk sat in her office and waited for her.

The staff of the HR department was highly efficient. As soon as Gloria returned to her office, she happened to receive the email.

Gloria clicked open the documents and turned them over to Kirk one by one, "Look carefully. I can't let the girl stay here." The employees of the Royal Club could be somewhat scheming. But if they were bent on harming others, they couldn't stay here.

Kirk flipped through the information. Suddenly, he stopped clicking the mouse "It's her!"

"Ruby Carter?"

Gloria squinted at Ruby's profile on the screen. With her picture right in front of her eyes, suddenly, Gloria smiled, "I shouldn't have been soft-hearted."

She abruptly turned to look at Kirk, "It is Boss who asked you to look into what had happened in the box on the sixth floor today, right? So I've exerted great effort. Does that count as a favor for you?"

Kirk didn't deny it, "Gloria, you really know Boss well."

"It's not that I know Boss well. It's that I see that Boss treats Grace James differently from others."

Kirk felt her words sounded harsh as he thought, “Wallis Venus is the most precious treasure in Boss's heart. And it has nothing to do with Miss James. Then he said, "There are some things that you don't know about. Don't make random comments."

Gloria, however, laughed inexorably. In her opinion, it was not she but Kirk who was self-righteous.