Comfortable silence filled the space as Isabella sat at her neatly arranged desk, working on the papers calmly. But while the inside of the room was peaceful, just outside the closed door, chaos was unraveling.
The rude shouts of an intruder made the people outside wince in frustration and annoyance while Isabella's assistant struggled to hold the intruder back, her voice sharp and urgent but firm, trying her best not to be rude and lose her composure.
While the chaos was too loud for the outside people to handle, to Isabella, those sounds came just as some distant murmurs and muffled words, making her dismiss them as the ordinary bustle of the corridor.
But Isabella couldn't disregard it for long, as the shouting grew far too loud, accompanied by a loud bang on the door and continuous rattling on the handle. Isabella frowned in annoyance at the disturbance and glanced at the door just the moment the door banged open and Elena warned.
