Not On His Watch

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

Adam busied himself in the files, losing track of time. 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 something?." He asked her with a smile.

"No Sir. I just brought you some 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 me." Adam gave her a big goofy smile.

"And what happened to not calling me 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 time. All you have to do is start calling me by my name." 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 me by name after office hours. Come 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 name. He didn't know why but he wanted to know how would his name 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 name 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 moment. They way she had said Adam, made him realize that not even once he had found his name coming out from another person's mouth to be so melodious. Or maybe it wasn't his name but her voice who was this melodious.

"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 came 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 something with full concentration.

'I wish that someday, 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 something on her laptop, he decided not to disturb her.

He logged into a word game 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 memories. The way her eyes widen a bit as if she had discovered something 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 doomed Adam.' He pitied himself inwardly.

"Why do you have so much work? I don't remember 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 time to make some 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 time 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 meekly.

'How could she just let others use herself? If it wasn't for me 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 time.

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