The Apple of My Eye novel Chapter 1738

David thought Leila was just a secretary in the Secretary Department of Shining Company. He didn't think she had any special relations with the president, so he never gave her any preferential treatment.

"David, aren't you aware of my relationship with the president? I'm not really the one who's asking, though. It's Aunt Melissa. Are you going to refuse to answer a question that came from the mother of the president?" Leila confidently said as she eyed David. She was sure that David would have no choice but to answer. All she needed was to drop Melissa's name.

David kept calm and put on a faint smile before turning to look at Leila again.

Then he eyed Leila from head to toe.

Leila felt uncomfortable underneath his gaze. She coughed and said, "David, why are you looking at me like that?"

"Ms. Zhang, I hope you understand that while Melissa is a director of the company, she's not in charge of the company or any of the work being done under it. I'm not obligated to her at all. If there's nothing else, I'll get going now."

David didn't care who Leila worked for. He didn't care if it was Melissa she was working for. He didn't like Leila anyway. Even if Charles asked him to even just smile at Leila, he wouldn't be able to do it.

Leila was furious as she watched David walk away.

The other secretaries in the Secretary Department saw the whole thing and just merely exchanged glances. Leila had several guesses as to what they were thinking. Either way, she knew that David had humiliated her on purpose.

From then on, Leila decided that as soon as she married Charles, the first thing she'd do would be to fire David.

"What are you doing? Don't you need to work?"

Leila snapped when she saw the other secretaries pointing at her and gossiping about her. She was furious.

Everyone got annoyed, but they chose to remain silent. They all went back to their work, ignoring Leila.

Leila didn't get anything from David, so she decided to go to Charles' office.

"Tap-tap..." She knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Charles was leaning back in the chair, but upon hearing the knock, he straightened his back and looked toward the door.

Leila gently pushed the door open and walked inside with a cup of coffee in her hand. She put down the coffee and smiled. "Charles, have some coffee."

"Leave it on the table."

Charles was in a bad mood, and he made no effort in hiding it.

This didn't go unnoticed by Leila, so she bit her tongue and held back what she was going to say. She figured David must have told Charles something. If she said something wrong, she'd get in trouble. She wasn't stupid, so she wouldn't do anything to harm herself.

"Anything else?" Charles frowned when Leila just remained standing in front of him.

"Nothing. I'm going out. If you need something, please, call me." Leila smiled awkwardly as she walked out of Charles' office.

All employees of Shining Company worked cautiously that day when they noticed that Charles was in a bad mood. They were afraid they might offend Charles, so they tried their best to stay out of his way.