She would never have guessed that Desmond was disgusted by her coquettish behavior and her princess syndrome. He was merely tolerating her because of his friendship with her brother. However, she had crossed the limits of his patience by offending his most competent employee. How could he tolerate that?

Her father's words confirmed the reality; she was fired. She stared at Zaria like she was looking at a ghost and ran out like a lunatic. She was probably going to cause a scene.

Not bothering with her, Zaria glanced at Cora, who was trying to make her presence scarce. She merely said two words "last chance" and that was enough to scare the life out of Cora.

When she was done dealing with these brainless women, she headed for the elevator.

"Miss Williams, you did great! Marion was such a bully, she thought she was really a queen and kept ordering us around!" The little intern looked like she had suffered unjustly.

Zaria cast her a side-glance. "And you simply let her? Are you…"

When she realized that she was about to say something mean, she paused mid-speech. No one had bullied her as an intern, so she should not be unnecessarily harsh to an innocent girl. She forced a smile as she changed her words. "Next time, don't let anyone treat you unfairly. Get to work."

"Yes, Miss Williams." The intern almost entered the elevator for executive employees but quickly corrected herself and rushed to the opposite one.

Zaria let out a long breath when she entered the elevator and was about to press the button to close it when Liam rushed in.

"Thanks." He smiled brightly.

She nodded slightly and faintly greeted him, trying not to take out her frustration on innocent people.

"Bad mood?" He noticed that she looked dull even though she tried to conceal it.

Since it was so obvious, she nodded. "Yeah. Kind of."

"What happened?" He looked at her with concern written all over her face.

Perhaps she felt he would understand her, or maybe it was because she really couldn't hold it in, she blurted it out. "I fell out with my friend."

Liam squinted his eyes. "That guy we met at Grand View Hospital?" When she nodded, he was stumped. "Don't tell me it's because of you getting employed here?"

He remembered that Ryan hated the fact that she had signed an employment contract with Desmond and did not try to hide it.

Still, "Are you kidding me? It's your choice where you want to work, right?"

She shrugged. Even she found it absurd. "Have you and Desmond ever fallen out?" She asked to change the topic.

"For the stupidest reasons." He laughed just thinking about it.

"Women?" She asked through a laugh.

Chuckling, he pretended to be offended. "Don't lump me together with that playboy. Anyway, once when we were in high school, I lost my shoe brush and used his toothbrush. He gave me the cold shoulder for a week."

"Pfft…" She burst into laughter. "What were you even thinking? Are you insane?"

"Well, we are all stupid at least once in our teen years." He chuckled.

"That's true." Her teenage period had been enjoyable, all thanks to the craziness.

"Tell me about your childhood." He suddenly demanded, then recalled that Ryan should be her childhood friend. By asking that, he had reminded her about their fallout and it was too late to take back his words. He slid a hand through his hair. "I hate seeing you sad. Anything I can do to make you feel better?"

"Thanks, Liam. But I'm alright." She was not lying. After exchanging a few words with him, she felt a little better.

They had arrived on their floor, so they could not linger much longer. He nodded at her words. "If you need someone to talk to, feel free to look for me."

She nodded and made her way to her office.

A few minutes later, the door opened and someone entered without knocking.

She was about to ask whether the incomer had skipped all their etiquette classes when she realized that it was Desmond.

"Good morning, sir." She greeted politely before meeting his unhappy gaze and correcting herself. "Desmond."

She sounded so distant that he found it odd. "You don't look like you would on a good morning."

Usually, she would flash him a bright smile with her white little teeth or curse him out for random reasons, but today, it was as though she had a lot on her mind. Even her smile looked forced.

She said nothing in response, so he left. There was a door connecting her office to his. However, he had forbidden his former executive assistants from using it and had long forgotten that it existed. It was only today that he remembered it and decided to reopen it.

Once it was unlocked, he turned back to her, and she finally confirmed where that mysterious door led to.

"Use this from now on." He instructed and went into his office, deliberately leaving it open.

She didn't think too much of it and prepared to read him his schedule.

However, the man couldn't take his eyes off her. His heart was filled with joy. Being able to meet each other without needing to open their office doors, it felt as though they were enclosed in their own little world. Should he reward the architect who designed this building?

However, his happiness soon crumbled when he realized that he couldn't see her clearly.

Thanks to the shape of their offices, he had to use a lot of effort to see a sliver of her side profile. It turned out that the door wouldn't help much.

Who the heck designed this building?! He wanted to kill them!