My Little Sunshine Chapter 12: Not On His Watch

After getting done with their al, both of them returned back to their respective cabins.

Adam busied himself in the files, losing track of ti. He only bothered to look up when the door of his office was knocked. He had an idea of who it might be.

"Yes Stella. Do you need sothing?." He asked her with a smile.

"No Sir. I just brought you so coffee. It's almost 9 and you are still working. So, I thought you might need it." She replied politely.

It was only then that he noticed the small tray in her hands with his cup on it, steam blowing out from it. "Thank you so much for being so considerate of ." Adam gave her a big goofy smile.

"And what happened to not calling Sir after office hours?" He asked, raising a brow at her when she was placing the cup before him.

"It's just that I am not used to address you without it." She replied.

"I know. But you will get used to it with ti. All you have to do is start calling by my na." Adam spoke slowly as if he was talking to a child.

"But---" She only spoke a word just to be interrupted by him, "No buts. And I am just asking you to call by na after office hours. Co on, you can do that. It's not that hard."

"O-okay." Stella reluctantly agreed to him.

"Okay what?" He wasn't going to let her go this easily, not unless she called him but his na. He didn't know why but he wanted to know how would his na sound coming from her mouth. 'Say it, just say it Stella, please!' He was almost begging her internally.

"Okay A-A-Adam." She said, his na almost a whisper, but he still caught at it.

"Huh?" Adam feigned innocence as if did not hear it.

"I said, okay Adam." She almost rolled back her eyes at him.

He was stunned for a mont. They way she had said Adam, made him realize that not even once he had found his na coming out from another person's mouth to be so lodious. Or maybe it wasn't his na but her voice who was this lodious.

"That's more like it." He said. "Are you done with your work by the way?"

"Almost, there's only a bit left, I leave after doing that." She replied.

"Then why don't you bring it over here? I am kind of getting bored here. I will do mine and you can do yours. And then we can leave." He suggested politely taking a sip of his coffee. 'Hmm, she makes a good coffee.' she sighed softly.

"Umm Okay." She replied hesitatingly.

Stella left and ca back in two minutes with her laptop and and a file. She sat down across him and put down her stuff.

They both busied themselves in their own work. Adam sipped on his coffee every now and then, taking tiny glances at her from behind his coffee mug. She had her head down, reading sothing with full concentration.

'I wish that soday, I will be able to hold all of your interest.' He thought to himself.

He was already done with his work but since he saw she was still busy doing sothing on her laptop, he decided not to disturb her.

He logged into a word ga and played it for a while but soon got bored. He then glanced at the girl before him, his eyes tracing her petite features, taking in her every expression and storing them in his mories. The way her eyes widen a bit as if she had discovered sothing new, the way her brows furrowed as if she wasn't pleased with what she saw, the way her tongue licked her lips every now and then to moisten them, he liked every single thing about her.

'You are definitely dood Adam.' He pitied himself inwardly.

"Why do you have so much work? I don't rember assigning that much to you." He couldn't help but ask her.

"It's actually assigned by the Vice President." She replied without looking up at him.

"When did he assign it to you?" He asked.

"Today." She replied.

"And when do you have to submit it?" He investigated further.

"Tomorrow morning." His brows furrowed deeply listening to her reply.

'Looks like it is ti to make so changes around here.' He was aggrieved.

"Stop it! You don't have to do this work." He stopped Stella moving it slightly aside.

Before she could speak up, he continued, "He has his own assistant. He could have asked her to do it. In fact, it should have been her to do this work, not you, if not for the fact they have screwing each other around. She gets paid for her the job she doesn't do."

Stella's eyes widened a bit registering what Adam had just told her.

"Next ti be aware of what happens around you. The entire office knows about this. And more importantly, you are my assistant, not his. You will only do the work which I tell you to, not what others say. Get it?" He was slightly angered.

Stella only nodded ekly.

'How could she just let others use herself? If it wasn't for asking about it, I would have never known about it and all the credit must have gone to his assistant.'

"Go pack your things right now, and don't worry about the matter, I'll handle it my way. And I'll make sure that no one else will bully you again just because you are new." He added, his tone was a bit more polite than before.

"Okay." She said and left to get the rest of her belongings.

Adam stood up after she left, he walked to the floor to ceiling glass wall, watching in the distance. His eyes were fierce now.

'I have been ignoring what that sleazeball has been doing for so long just because he had been by my Dad's side for so long. But not anymore. He dared to bully the little elf, I will make sure he regrets it, along with that secretary of his.' He was angered to the bones this ti.

'No one can bully his staff, especially not the little elf. No one can bully her, not on his watch.'