Trapped with a Lawyer novel Chapter 22

Ella already knew something had happened on her way to Catherine's office. She knocked on the door three times. Catherine looked up and her face became even gloomier.

"Ella, where are the files I told you to print out yesterday? Why there are only two copies of them?"

She knew it was coming. Ella took a deep breath and confronted with Catherine's accusation. She explained: "I worked till 10 o'clock last evening..."

"So what, your working late has nothing to do with me! Ineed to see results from you! Don't you know that I am going to need all these files for a contract signing later?" Catherine angrily threw the A4 paper on the desk and glared at Ella.

Somehow, Ella couldn't shake the feeling that Catherine was deliberately picking on her.

"Excuse me, Ms. Gu, sorry for causing you inconvenience." Ella apologized to her in an indifferent tone.

Catherine loathed her so much that she had to stop herself from scratching Ella every time she saw her.. "What's the use of you being sorry? Now go and print out all the documents I need. If you can't complete the task within 2 hours, you should pay for the loss you cause for the company!"

Ella saw her raging face, and she simply said "alright" and left her office.

She now knew for sure that this Catherine had a huge grudge against her. But she did not know where the grudge came from.

As soon as she sat back at her desk, Ella turned on her computer and began working.

10 o'clock in the morning, Ella felt thirsty. So she saved the document on her computer and walked to the break room with her mug.

At the door of the break room, she heard someone talking in a low voice: "Ella, that mistress is so unlucky. She got bullied by Ms.Gu the first day at work. Did you actually see that Ms.Gu herself touched the power switch?"

"Of course. I would not tell you this if I did not see it myself!"

"Mistress? Touched the switch?" At that moment, all Ella could feel was a rage building up inside her.

"Catherine, I got you!" thought Ella.

She quietly moved into the break room. The gossiping employees gathered there stopped talking immediately. They all went back to the office area with a guilty conscience.

Ella eventually completed the task and handed over the last piece of the file to Catherine before noon.

However, Catherine just responded with a cold voice, "There are now useless. You should now translate all the documents and hand them to me by EOD."

"Useless?" Ella gazed at Catherine who acted like nothing was going on, then she asked: "Do you have something against me?"

'Why does she bully me like this and waste all my time and effort.'

Catherine threw the folder in front of her. She crossed her arms, parted her ruby lips and said: "You are the wife of Mr. Shao, why would I hold anything against you?" Her tone was full of nothing but mockery.

Ella did not reach for the folder but confronted her directly: "So you unplugged the power and made all my work in vain. What was that all about?"

'Plus, there is rumor about me being a mistress. Though I don't know yet who started it.' thought Ella.

Catherine's face looked a bit twisted. How on earth did she find out? "Ella, accusing someone without evidence will end up in a lawsuit."

"Lawsuit?" Ella didn't want to argue with her further. She came here to work, not to cause trouble for Samuel. Ella picked up the folder of documents that needed to be translated. On her way out, she said: "You know what you have done. If I catch you doing it next time, don't blame me for making it all personal!"

Having worked in the entertainment industry for several years, Ella had learned a lot of lessons One of the lessons was: A tamed horse is often ridden and a weak person is likely to be bullied.