Chapter 221 - You Are So Insensible

Stella hummed lightly before shifting her gaze away from his figure. "I need you to deliver a document to a place, and it is important that you do it within an hour. Actually it's fifteen minutes less than that." She corrected herself as she realized that they have wasted fifteen minutes inside the elevator.

"But don't you like… live in one of those secluded areas, away from the main city. Reaching there will take around an hour or so because of the traffic." David furrowed his brows as he questioned her. 

"No, it won't take us that long." Stella replied to him, keeping her words minimum. 

David just shrugged at her words and decided to stay quiet but his mind was working in overdrive mode. 'How could they arrive there in time? Especially during the rush hours.' 

"Come-on, you can sit in the front." Stella ordered him politely as soon as her car pulled up before the entrance. She began to walk towards it without waiting for him and got inside. 

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Twenty minutes later, the car pulled up in a high-end residential area. 

"Follow me." Stella commanded David who was busy looking at the surroundings with confusion written on his, as she stepped out of the car. The man could only nod his head and follow his Boss as he was given no other choice. 

Stella walked through the entrance and greeted the woman who was at the reception before walking to the elevator. She tapped her right foot on the floor as she was becoming impatient as they waited for the elevator to arrive on the ground floor. She could feel a pair of eyes staring intently at the back of her head without a break, which added more to her anxiousness. 

She signed internally when the ding sound of the elevator entered her ears. 

"So, you live in an apartment. I never got to hear about it in the news." David added after the elevator doors closed and it began to climb up. "I thought you'd still be living in that castle which your deceased husband left you." 

Stella scoffed and gave him a lop-sided grin. "Don't believe everything you hear from those liars. And my husband isn't dead, so don't use that word and his name in the same sentence." She added the latter part with a glare. 

"And I live in a penthouse, not an apartment." She spoke up when the elevator came to a stop on the top most floor. A small touch screen slid out from the space below the panel which had buttons of all the floors. Stella typed in a bunch of digits which was actually the password to her penthouse entrance, without which the elevator doors wouldn't open. She didn't bother to hide the password from the man who was standing next to her. 

A few seconds later the blue light at the corner of the touch screen turned to green, indicating that the password was correct. A ding sound was heard before the elevator doors opened into a foyer. 

"Come on in. Make yourself at home." She spoke up as she began to walk across the foyer. 

David looked at her back and frowned as a couple of thoughts began to run through his mind. 'How could she invite a random person, a man at that, inside her penthouse when she's all on her own.' 

"I'm fine." He gave her a questioning look. "And can you please hurry up and get those documents quickly, I need to go back home after delivering them." He added as he followed her inside.

The foyer led into the living room which was connected to an open Italian style kitchen where a couple of stool style chairs were placed next to the kitchen counter. The whole apartment had a sober look to it with all the shades of cream and off-white which were used in contrast with a bunch of pastel colors. 

"I quite like the place. Your interior designer has definitely done a good job with the colors." He made a praising remark as his eyes drifted around. 

"Thanks. I will convey your remarks to her the next time we meet." Stella gave him a faint smile as she began to head towards her the stairs which led to her master bedroom. "Make yourself at home, I will be back in a couple of minutes. There's some water in the refrigerator and some left over food also, if you'd like to have bite." She reminded him again to make himself at ease until she returned. 

David kept his eyes on her as she climbed the stairs, until she was no longer in his line of sight. He shrugged his shoulders and headed towards the kitchen to take a stroll around as he was actually hungry. He was thinking about going back to his single room apartment and cook himself something after getting done with the office work. But this woman dragged him here without even asking for his consent. 

He allowed his eyes to roam around the kitchen as he looked for the refrigerator which she mentioned. His eyebrows furrowed when he didn't find one in the kitchen. "Where the hell is the refrigerator?" He muttered under his breath as he felt his last hope of shoving something inside his stomach, fading away right before his eyes.

His eyes lingered around the kitchen one more time and he was finally able to locate the refrigerator which was camouflaged with the rest of the wall. 'Who makes their refrigerator camouflage with the wall and then offers their guest to look for food inside it?' He thought inwardly as he made his way to it around the counter. 

Two minutes later, he was sitting on one of the stools next to the counter, enjoying a slice of some leftover pizza he found in the kitchen. He had reheated a slice of it in the microwave thinking that she wouldn't it either. And a slice was enough to keep him alive till he gets back to his apartment. 

He was only half way done with his food when a crashing sound resonated through the place, followed by a low shriek of a woman. 

Leaving his food on the counter, he rushed upstairs right away. The staircase led him directly to the master bedroom. Without bothering himself with the knocking, he entered the room directly when he found that it wasn't locked from the inside. 

As soon as he went in, he saw some glass shards scattered all over the floor. He eyes roamed around the room haphazardly as he looked for the person who had made this mess. He heaved out a long sigh of relief when he saw her sitting on the foot end of the bed. The relief on his face was soon replaced by a frown as his eyes landed on her right foot. 

She was holding it in between her hands as the entire slow was covered in blood. Her eyes were clenched tightly as she bit down on her lower lip to suppress her cries. 

"Are you blind?" David clenched his jaw as he tried to control the rage which was building up inside him. 'Just how could someone step on a piece of glass in such a brightly lit room.' He shook his head in helplessness and walked up to her. He went down on his knees and grabbed her food with one of hands as he angled it with the other so that he could clearly examine it. 

Just as he had predicted, he saw a glass shard stuck inside the wound. "You okay?" He questioned her only to earn a glare in response.

"Do I look like okay?" Stella spat her words out, glaring at him with her teary eyes. 

"I was just being polite." He replied back with a smile, making her more angry. 

As Stella was about to pass him another sarcastic remark, a sharp pain shot up in her foot. 

"Oh! I forgot to mention that this might hurt." David gave her blank as he threw away the bloodied shard where the rest of the broken pieces were lying on the carpeted floor. 

"Are you crazy?" Stella smacked him on his shoulder as she couldn't control the pain any longer. 

"What did you expect when you stepped on glass shard? That it might feel like walking on a beach?" He narrowed his eyes at her. "Or was it the garden you had in your mind?" He gave her a smirk. 

"You… you are so insensible." Stella could only sulk as she didn't have any reply to his sarcastic remarks. 

"Thank you so much, Ma'am. Now, if you don't mind telling me, where can I find a first aid kit in here?" Instead of being angry, he asked her with a faint smile.

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