Just as he was leaving the room after picking up the brown envelope, Stella stopped him. "I will see you out." She spoke up as she tried to move her foot and get down from the bed. She was just trying to act a bit nice towards him since he had helped her out so much. But who knew that the man would end up scolding her in return for her kind gesture.
"What are trying to do now? Break your leg? I could help you with that if you want it to happen that much?"
"What's wrong with you? I was just trying to be nice to you." Stella pursed her lips in a pout.
"I don't need your help, Ma'am. I can walk myself out. You just continue to sit on your throne." He added, his voice dripping with sarcasm as he pointed towards her bed.
"But" Stella tried to make him understand her point only to be interrupted by the man.
"I went from being you personal assistant to your delivery boy, all in the span of one day. Did I forget to mention about being your personal nurse? Oh, wait! I was your maid as well in between. So, you must be tired after all of this helping out, isn't that right?" He narrowed his eyes at her.
His words only made her feel more guilty. She wanted to apologise to him but decided to keep her mouth shut as she didn't want to be scolded any further by him.
"You can leave." She spoke up while pointing towards the door of her room, not bothering to look him in the eye. She knew that he wasn't wrong. She knew that his every single word was true. She had indeed turned the poor guy in her own servant.
"Thank you, your highness." He heaved out a tired sigh and headed out of her room, not forgetting to close the door on his way out.
"What took you so long?" Edward questioned him as soon as he walked up to the car only earn a scowl from him.
"Look man, I have seriously had enough for today. Can you please drive me to this address so that I can drop it off and be on my way back to my little home sweet home, as soon as possible." David spoke up as he waved the envelope before his face, not bothering to answer his question.
"Get inside." Edward instructed him to get in the car after giving him a scrutinizing gaze.
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Stella, who was left all alone with her thoughts, was having a hard time in processing them. Her mind kept drifting to what had happened earlier in the elevator. Her subconscious kept reminding her of the pair of strong arms which had embraced her.
She tossed and turned in her bed as she couldn't comprehend why it all felt so familiar to her. The way he had rocked her shivering body gently, why did his actions reminded her of someone else. Why did the warmth of his embrace gave her frightened soul the same solace as Adam's presence used to give.
She closed her eyes and let her thoughts take her back to the moment when she had actually felt that it was Adam with her inside the darkened space. 'Why would he console her like that? Why would he let her hug him?'
There were so many whys and what ifs, that by merely thinking about them, she felt her head began to ache. Her brushed all those thoughts out of her mind as his arms rest on her lower abdomen. "What do you guys think?" She asked her babies, thinking that they might be able to guide her down the right track.
"Your father's absence has begun to affect me this much now that the first man who's good to me, seems like him in my eyes." She chuckled at her own helplessness as her eyes drifted off to her bandaged foot. "May be he's just a good man who was just being nice to me since I am his boss." She nodded her head, agreeing with her myself.
"But what about all those familiarity I felt?" She questioned herself again.
"It was dark and you were having a panic attack, girl. You weren't even in your right mind then. It must be you over thinking or hallucinating things." She scolded her own self before deciding that she should sleep. It was a good thing that she ate before leaving the office because she was in no condition to quickly whip something up for herself.
She stretched her hand and pushed a button on the side of the headboard which automatically dimmed the lights of the room. "Good night, my little angels." She rubbed her stomach lightly as a fond smile rested on her lips. Their existence was the only thing which was making her go all this while. There was no way she could have survived the past month without his presence. It was her babies which gave her hope that he would definitely come back.
Without troubling herself to change into comfortable clothes, she tucked herself in and drifted off to sleep.
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Next day, David arrived at the office, seething in anger. He was about to go tky the CEO's office and scold her once again for ruining his night last night. When she asked him to deliver a document, he thought that it might be something important related to the company. Who could have guessed that she used him as her own delivery boy as all that envelope had inside of it was a letter. The poor guy came to know about it after he delivered it to Liam.
He came to a halt before the large dark wood door and was about to knock, but retracted his hand back inside his pocket. As he came to think of it, she wouldn't have come to the company with that foot of hers. He was about to turn away and head to his own office, but the door before him opened from the inside and Bella walked out.
"Oh! Good morning, Mr. Morrison." Bella greeted her politely.
"Good morning. And please, just call me David." He gave her a polite smile.
Bella nodded her head in agreement. "By the way, you are right on time. Boss was asking for you." She continued when she remembered the reason Stella had called her in office.
"She came to the office." He frowned after listening to her and went inside the room after knocking once, without waiting for her confirmation.
Bella looked at the closed door in confusion. 'He is weird.' She thought to herself before walking away to her desk.
Inside the office room, Stella was nowhere to be seen. "Boss? You called for me." He spoke called out to her loudly.
"Yes, hold on." He heard his reply.
"She must be inside." He murmured to himself as he continued to stand before her desk.
"Good that you are here. We need to leave for a meeting in half an hour and I want you to make sure that there are no errors in this proposal." She walked out of the room to her desk and passed him a file.
David just hummed in response as he shifted his line of sight to her foot. "What are you wearing boots? That too with heels." He frowned after shifting his gaze to her, looking straight into her eyes.
"I can't let others know that I am stupid, can I?" She added giving him an eye roll. "Moreover, I hate it when people pity me or sympathize with me." She just shrugged in response.
"Alright, just be careful with it. Don't put all of your weight in you right foot, or else the wound will open again." He could just shook his head at the woman who was standing before him. "Can you please tell me what was so important with the document you asked me to deliver last night?" His mind reminded him of the real reason why he wanted to have a chat with her right after coming to the office.
"It was more like a letter that I had to deliver to Uncle Liam. He isn't on speaking terms with his daughter, so she sends me the letters that she wants to send him and I deliver it to him on the very same day ok which I get them." Stella smiled like a teenager who was doing something good for others. She didn't bother to hide the truth from anymore as the letter had already found its way to the recipient.
"Then what was with that time limit?" David looked at her as if he was looking at a fool.
"I usually get the letter early in the morning and I get it delivered to Liam before 9 o'clock at night. It's kinda like a time limit I have set for myself." Stella replied to him as she found her way around the table and settled down on her swiveling chair.
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