Aloof CEO's; Charming Secretary

Arlo saw Sky smiling and sighed silently.

Sky turned to him asked curiously, "Arlo! Won't Mr.Ray get angry on you for not spending much time with him?"

Arlo couldn't understand why she suddenly took that topic but he heard her continue, "If I'm poking my nose too much in your personal life, you don't have to answer me."

'What is she talking about?' Arlo thought to himself and replied, "Sometimes."

Sky nodded and asked, "You guys are opposite poles. You are mature and intelligent. He is childlike but he is also offbeat."

He felt eccentric about how she said but he hummed, "Yes!"

'Hmmm! Opposite poles attract each other! Magnet basic property.' Sky thought to herself and stopped about them.

He dropped her home and went back to the Smith mansion.

--

The next day, Sky visited Amie's tomb with David. She wanted to stay with him until he leaves but he sent her off with Sam.

Sky instructed David's assistant and his guards before leaving for the Harley corporation.

It was the same for the last two years. He would send her off soon and he would only return in the evening. Sky was helpless about it and thinking he may need some time alone, she could only do what he says.

She was busy with work all day as they would be opening the bookings for Harley resorts from Tuesday. She had to check everything about it and other departments' status.

She finished work for the day ASAP before leaving for the Harley mansion.

"Where is my dad?" Sky asked the maid who she saw at the main door.

"Young miss! Master is in his room." The maid replied politely.

"Did he eat anything?" Sky paused in her steps and asked.

"Young miss! Master didn't eat anything at home."

Sky heard her and went to his room. She had expected it. The door was locked. Sky had to knock and ask him to open before entering inside.

He gave a feeble smile and sat on an armchair. "Lass! Why are you home early?"

Sky sat opposite to him, "I was bored. So I came. Dad, did you eat anything? I'm very hungry."

David lightly chuckled knowing why she was doing it but he didn't have an appetite. "I will ask them to prepare. We will eat."

"Oh!" Sky pondered and denied, "No! Dad, You haven't eaten anything I prepared except desserts. right?"

David nodded his head. Sky continued, "I will cook today. But only one dish."

David chortled, "No, No. How about I cook for you?"

Sky pouted, "I'm not a good cook but I'm not soo bad either. Dad, you are so mean. Hmph."

David rubbed her head and stood up, "Lass! Since you are an expert in dessert, you take care of it. I will cook the main dish."

Seeing his mood brightening up, Sky agreed. David prepared rolls and burrito bowl. Considering winter, Sky prepared hot chocolate lava cake.

Butler and maid silently peeked inside the kitchen seeing David and Sky laughing and chatting happily as they cooked.

Butler knew well how David used to spend that day and the following few days of Amie's death anniversary. He started to get better when Sky came to the capital. But she used to stay in an apartment alone for first-year hence he was still the same.

The previous year, he had to be okay for Sky. This year was the best outcome to date. Butler heaved a sigh of relief and gave some works to all maids and sent them off.

After dinner, Father-daughter watched the news before going to bed.

--

The Next day was the result day for the Harley resorts. All the meetings were postponed and at ten they were ready to open for bookings from the last week of the month or year and so on.

At ten minutes to ten, All were near screening with the department who handled the Harley resort page on the Harley website.

"Did we get any booking from any brand ambassadors?" Sky asked as she entered the hall.

"Out of five, four booked for the first few days. Mr.Barton didn't reply to us."

Sky's lips twitched hearing the director and turned to him. Director stopped in his tracks and looked at her aloof face.

"Were you sleeping when I instructed in the meeting? Didn't I tell you not to ask Mr.Barton? Inutile!" Sky strode off leaving the sweating Director to stand there.

Sky continued to listen to a few more reports until ten. Count down started and opened for bookings.

Sky kept her eyes on screen where it was showing the number of login users, bookings and available or unavailable status of the days.

Booking started but after two minutes, booking stopped and somebody got up and announced, "Due to high traffic, the website is hanging."

Sky looked at the concerned head of the team for an explanation, "Ms.Sky, Our webpage limit is twenty thousand."

"How much I instructed?" Sky said and looked at login members. It was thirty thousand above but it was souring.

"I asked, How. much. I. instructed? " Sky's voice turned icy cold.

"Min... Min... Minimum fif.. fifty thousand." The team head stuttered.

"How long do you need for correcting this?" Sky had clenched her fist.

They had announced about it and it was important to time. Even if they correct, they can't be sure to get booking for later days now.

" Speak! " Sky hollered in her cold tone. "One hour!" A team member replied nervously.

"Useless bunch!" Sky took out her phone to dial Sam.

Arlo stopped her and said confidently, "Give me ten minutes. I will do it."

Sky paused and looked at Arlo, "Arlo, This is..."

"Trust me!" Arlo said and went near the system.

Seeing his determination she thought to take a chance. She didn't really like to ask Sam to clean up the office employees' mess.

"Close the bookings and Open it after Secretary Arlo's instruction."

Sky turned to the PR department. "Release a statement; Apologize and inform it will reopen at Quater past ten. I don't want any mistakes. Leave"

"Andy, Scrutinize and Fire whoever slacked at this work. And get me the file which this team submitted yesterday."

Time ticked up. Each second felt like a minute, each minute was like an hour. Sky checked the file and saw 65536 maximum. She threw the file on the team lead table.

She took some deep breaths to calm down and to remain rational. Arlo's fingers danced on the keyboard at high speed. None of them present were able to know what he was doing.

Even the development team was stunned looking at him.

Arlo clicked loudly on a key and spoke, "Done!" It was a minute less than what he said.

Sky stood behind him asked emotionlessly, "How can you be sure it will hold the traffic now?"