It was just a casual remark initially, and no one took it to heart. But things would land themselves like this sometimes; once it started, everything would eventually fall into place, becoming a no-brainer, ending with everyone looking at each other, not knowing what to do.

"Little miss, what's your daddy's name?"

"What a beautiful baby. Would you like some candy?"

"How did you get here? Do you know any of your family member's phone numbers? Aws, you're even holding a toy dog, how sweet and cute..."

The group huddled around her, talking one after another; some even tried to touch her face. Yvette suddenly burst into tears, holding onto the toy poodle plushie with dear life. "Go away, don't look at me!"

"Look at me, and I'll have my daddy fire all of you! My daddy is the greatest here!"

"I can't see anyone anymore!"

"Don't take my dog! I'm going to tell Daddy to fire all of you!"

Yvette's cries got all of them spooked.

"Oh, please don't cry, little one. Don't cry. We're not going to take you toy!"

"We won't look at you anymore..."

While everyone panicked, at a loss for what to do, an authoritative voice came suddenly. "What are you all doing?"

As everyone stepped aside, they saw a supervisor in a suit standing behind them, and through the narrow path, he saw the little girl.

"Whose child is this? Why bring a child to work? Hurry up and take her to the back. Do you want the boss to see it and scold you?"

She's looking for her daddy. Don't you think she

him the brief story, rendering him stumped. "This little girl

a slightly older female assistant, who got down to Yvette's eye level,

your daddy, okay? You want to sit

nodded and wiped her tears

that the child had such good manners, the crowd sighed again. "Such a little girl yet she

someone to find her a tall chair with an armrest and even instructed them to add a small cushion for protection. Worried that she'd run around, he prepared some snacks for her and even got an assistant to look after her. After settling the little girl, Mr. Braken pulled the manager aside. "What

she get

a

the questions, the manager and Mr. Braken looked at each other. Sweating profusely from his

surely isn't

And children

Bowles! We can't shoo her away. either. What if she is Mr. Bowles's somebody? Why don't we just ask?" "He's in a meeting right now! You

you

Was he not afraid

died?

sweet little girl sitting quietly on the side, certain she

why don't we

and take a look? We can't just chase an

this up, ruining the company's reputation aside, I'm sure you and I won't

"You've got a point!"

heads better than one, the two

still feeling a little dizzy, "Alright, we'll talk about this

and finance department? Third and first floor!" A few

make rounds even if it was just for formality lest those

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