PROLOGUE : VIELA

{Hyxen's POV}

I GLANCED at my face in the mirror while taking off my necktie. I am already tired from the meeting that happened a few minutes ago but here I am getting stressed by the applicants who want to apply as my secretary. They only know how to dress formally but didn't even know how to answer a simple question. Their look didn't impress me and so I don't know where I can find a secretary who meets the standard that I want.

"I'm sorry Mr. Sebastian, I did what you said by choosing a qualified candidate for an interview but I think some of them faked their resume. I'm really sorry." Amanda tried to explain herself, the assistant manager of my company.

"Just go out, don't push me to find a new assistant manager too." I said and didn't even bother to look at her.

Even though I didn't actually look at her because I was busy looking at myself in the mirror, I noticed she bowed a little before she left my office. I shook my head in disappointment, what is happening to the employees now? This is stressful.

After taking off the three buttons of my white polo, I took my coffee at my table and simp to it, hoping that this will calm me. And I think somehow it helps me to calm down and gives me motivation to just continue to work and forget what makes me stressed.

I was about to sit down to sign all the papers at my table when the door slowly opened. My brow slowly furrowed when the one who moved in on my office was not one of my employees, instead a little girl in a unicorn dress with a purple headband. She was holding his pink backpack too with her two hands while her eyes were nonstop looking around my office smiling not until our eyes met.

"Who are you?" I asked her emotionlessly.

Her smile faded. She started to walk towards me with a curious look. She tilted her head and started to look at my toe to head and unexpectedly she smiled so widely after that. She even put her bag down and clapped her hands in so much happiness.

"You are the CEO! I want a boyfriend like you mister." She said in her little voice while looking at me so admiringly. "I am Viela, Viela Francia, the girl who can give you a happily ever after!"

She held her right hand asking for a hand shake and making beautiful eye contact with me. I can't believe this kid! I didn't pay attention to the hand shake, instead I bowed down my right foot and so our height will be the same. I looked at her carefully. 

"I don't like kids." I muttered to destroy her imagination. 

"That was a reason why people are getting older, I will not be a kid forever. Are you really a CEO?" She simply said that makes my jaw drop. 

How can she respond to what I said like she was just playing? The way she talks is like far to her age. This is my first time seeing a kid this close that she didn't even feel scared about how I looked at her. I'm already glaring for the f*ck sake!

"What are you doing at my office? Who are you looking for?" I changed our conversation because I feel like I can't win on this kid. "Did you know that kid is not allowed to come here?"

"The guard outside said it but I ran because I needed to find my mother." She got her bag and hugged it with both hands again and so I stood up too. "Can you help me find my mother? Please..."

I didn't say no yet when she started to pull my pants begging for me to help her. I was trying to stop her from doing that but she didn't listen to me. Every time I remove her grip on my pants, she just comes back and holds it again. I wanted to kick her but I couldn't, she was now hugging my right feet that made my anger trigger!

"Okay okay!" I picked her up again so she could let go of me and I took her down before stepping back to make her far from me. "Stay there, I will help you but promise me you will get out of here if we find her."

She stopped. Her smile gets wider when she hears that from me. She stood straight like I commanded her to do that and nodded immediately. "I got it!"

I blew out a deep breath before asking her some details and so I can help her faster. "How can you say that your mom was here? Is she one of my employees?" I asked formally. 

She looked up before shaking her head to my question. "She is not an employee, she is an applicant." She corrected me.

That makes me stop for a second. 

"But I did throw out all of the applicants..." I whispered thinking about me interviewing applicants a minute ago. No one says yes when I ask them if they are having a kid because I don't want to hire someone who has a kid. It was just a distraction to my employees, I usually chose a single applicant. I used to do it. 

"I don't think you can throw my mom, she will be the one who will throw you out of here though." She heard about what I whispered and so she corrected me quickly. The way she talks is like she really knows how strong her mom is.

I let what she said and forget about it, she just don't know what she was talking. I get my phone to call Amanda to go here to my office. Just a minute, Amanda moved in and even her expression tells everything that she was also clueless about Viela. 

"That wasn't my mom." Viela looked at Amanda's face mad. "My mother doesn't have that kind of face."

I refrain myself from smiling because of how she looked at Amanda. I saw how Amanda stopped herself to talk back or be mad because I am here. I coughed three times to get the attention of Amanda who was fighting on staring at Viela.

"Amanda," She looked at me quickly as she heard her name. "Find her mother, she said she was one of the applicants. If you can't find her mother here around the company, look for her mother's resume and call it to get her here. Did you get it?"

"Yes sir," Amanda responded before looking at Viela with a fake smile hoping that Viela would cooperate. 

I looked at Viela. She smiled in satisfaction about my help to her. I gestured to her to move out with Amanda and she didn't even think about it. She did it immediately, she was even the one who walked first towards on the door to open it by herself like she was older than Amanda. 

"Hold my hand, you might get lost." Amanda offered her right hand while her left hand helped Viela reach and open the door but Viela's response made me chuckle.

"I don't have three hands." Viela looked at her two hands hugging her bag now. 

Amanda tried to smile again, pulling her last patience to Viela. How can this little girl make me smile so easily? I can't believe this.

They hadn't left my office yet when something came to my mind. This kid was smart and good at talking, I want to know if she gets it from her mother. That was the personality that I wanted for a secretary. It's not bad if I will hire her mother for testing and not hire a single one like I used to.  

"Viela..." I called her name that made her look at me clueless, even Amanda stopped. "If you already found your mother, tell her that she was hired." I declared. 

This is my first time doing this, hiring someone I didn't see yet. And so Amanda's expression was forgiven while Viela slowly formed a smirk on her face. 

"You're already curious about my mother, aren't you?" Viela asked while her both eyebrows went up and down nonstop with a cute smile on her face.