Chapter 226 - Bad Manners

"Can you stop asking me the same thing again and again?" She held his gaze and continued. "I already told you that I am okay. Didn't you get it the first time? Don't you understand what a nod means?" She questioned him as she went back to being her usual self.

"Well, your face said otherwise. I am just trying to be a good 'personal' assistant here." He pursed his lips and gave her a pitiful look. 

"Alright, alright! Rest assured, I am completely fine." She managed to speak as she looked down on the floor again. She was feeling guilty after hearing his reply as she could see that he was just being concerned about her. He had even helped her with those boys, and here she was scolding him again. 

"What's with you always scolding me, huh? Even last night I helped you out with so many things and you ended up yelling at me for God knows what reason." He pursed his lips tighter and even frowned while giving her puppy eyes to look more pitiful. 

"I did apologise…." Before Stella could reply to him a loud ping interrupted her. It was then she realized that the elevator had finally reached the top most floor which was only reserved for restaurants and small outlets of eateries.

Her eyes shifted to his back only to find that the entire leave was almost empty except for a couple of youngsters who had just walked out of the elevator, leaving the two of them alone. 'Where did the rest of those people go? And when did they get off?' She questioned herself at the absence of her mind. 

Little did she know that the elevator had already made a round to the top and it was the second time that it was arriving at their desired floor. She was way too focused on the man before her, that it made her pay zero attention to her surroundings. Moreover, his tall silhouette was blocking her line of sight. 

"Shall we go?" He questioned her again to which she just rolled her eyes and walked past him. 

She grunted out loudly when she heard a slight chuckle coming from behind her. She scolded herself for taking him as a good person. It's just his day two at work and he had managed to make her lose her calm so many times already. It wouldn't be wrong if she used the term devil reincarnated to define him because for her, he was the literal definition of it.

"Annoying fool". She muttered under her breath when she saw him trying to keep up with her pace which wasn't so difficult for him because of his long legs. With a couple of long strides, he was right next to her as she walked towards the very same restaurant which she had visited a couple of days ago with Rachel. 

"Rich people and their ways." He murmured softly as he continued to keep up with her. Though his voice was low but Stella clearly heard him. Turning her head towards him, she passed him a deathly glare only to get a bright smile in return. 

"What do you mean by that?" She questioned him while giving him a threatening glare.

"Exactly what it means." He shrugged his shoulders. He was in no mood to explain his earlier statement, so he just continued to walk next to her while keeping his mouth shut. 

"Who's the person you are meeting with?" He finally out forward the quesu which was bothering him since he had read the file before leaving for here. It just had a basic draft of the proposal with no actual facts and figures. Even the name of the company was not mentioned. He had a hunch that she deliberately kept it hidden, as for why, he didn't have a single idea. 

"You will see him in a while." She gave him a lopsided grin and motioned the head manager, who was already waiting for her, to show them the way to the private room she had booked a couple of days ago.

David continued to follow her inside, but this time a step behind her as they were in a public place and he wouldn't want any bad news about her to make its way into the headlines. Even though he seemed calmed from outside, internally he was in turmoil as he tries to think of the identity of this 'him' she had mentioned. 

The head manager finally stopped before a black gate and motioned the waiter who was standing nearby, to open it before guiding the duo inside. 

Stella heaved out a relieved sigh when she saw that the room was empty and the other party wasn't already waiting for her. She dismissed the head manager after placing an order for herself to which he nodded his head and left.

"You didn't ask me." David spoke up as he settled down on the chair next to her after the two of them were left alone. 

"Huh?" Stella gave him a quizzical look as she couldn't get what he had said. Her thoughts were all over the place and she was lost in her own world.

"You didn't ask me." He repeated his words again with patience. There wasn't the slightest bit of annoyance and irritability in his voice. He rolled his eyes when he saw her still looking at him with a weird expression. "You didn't ask me what I would like to eat." He explained it to her as he fought the urge to give her a smack on the top of her head.

"Well, as you can see, our guest is not here yet. And it's bad manners to order food without the other person. So, you will wait till he comes and places his order." Stella replied to him as she gazed down at the mahogany wood table. 

"Then why did you place your order? Isn't that bad manners?" He frowned at her weird logic. 

"It is, but who cares. I am famished. Do you have any idea how much energy all that sitting up straight consumes when you are getting a haircut?" She just shrugged her shoulders in response while he continued to stare at her as if she had grown two wings out of nowhere, chicken wings to be precise. 

"When can I resign from the job?" She heard him ask after a few minutes of staying quiet. 

"Why would you resign from the job?" It was Stella's turn to look at him skeptically. Why would someone who was in their right mind, resign from a job they had just landed on? People would literally kill each other just to have his post. 'He is definitely insane'. She smirked.

"I just cannot do this." He paused and took in a deep breath as if he was bracing himself for a big revelation. "I can work at one of those salons they have for puppies. But I cannot work under a Boss who not only has a thick skull, but an empty one too." He continued as the frown on his face turned upside down, sending the person next to him in a delirium.

"Y-you… you…" Stella tried to think of a retort but couldn't do so. She was fuming with rage. If it was possible in real life, then one could have seen steam blowing off from her ears and nose. How dare this man say something so terrible about her? 

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