The Divorced Heiress Is Entering a New Marriage

Chapter 0182

I should have known he was still on my side. He was a CEO first, but he was still someone who cared about me. I was a fool to doubt him.

If we bring him back –“Logan said.

“Absolutely not,” Dawn cut him off.

“He’s a good worker who was well liked in the office,” Logan said.

“I will not undermine my own rules. If I do, then no one will take them seriously. They must be upheld to ,the full extent.”

“They are too strict already,” Logan tried to reason. “No one is taking them seriously now because you are pushing too far.”

“I appreciate y your concem,” Dawn said in such a snide way that it was clear she did not appreciate it at all. “But I did not come here to discuss changes to the rules. Lcame here to insist you help me Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

bring your employees back into line before there have to be more firings.”

God, she had power for all of a day and a half, and she was already abusing it. Thank God she wasn’t queen or something. Heads would probably roll.

But this was serious too. The employees here needed their paychecks and their benefits. Losing those would put people’s livelihoods in danger.

I knew as well as anyone how difficult it was to survive without enough money. I was so tired of sleeping on my friend’s couches. Although that was better than staying at my parents‘ house with them and Natalie

“And how, exactly, do you propose that I help you?” Logan said. “As my advice doesn’t seem to be what you want to hear.”

1 need to borrow your assistant.”

Me?

“Hazel?” Logan said, confusion in his voice.

“Miss Whitaker, yes,” Dawn said, carefully enunciating my name, as if reminding Logan that was what he was supposed to be calling me. “She is competent enough, from what I can tell. Your performance reviews of her have been quite encouraging.”

Pride swelled within me. I knew I did a good job at work, but it was nice to hear that Logan thought so too.

Although I wished this topic had been brought up in another time and place, perhaps between Logan and I over dinner. Not with Dawn asking Logan for a favor while I was hiding under his desk.

“We need someone to be a champion of the new regulations,” Dawn continued. “Who better than the person who pushed so hard for them in the first place?

highly doubt Miss Whitaker wished for the rules to be changed to what they currently are.” Logan said.

“The nature of the rules is not up for discussion or debate,” Dawn said. She spoke with a level of authority

that I never would have dreamed using with the CEO of the company I worked. She must have been so .confident the board would back her no matter what, if she considered herself about the CEO.

“If you want me to agree to lend you my assistant, you should show some respect.” Logan’s voice added its own edge. The temperature of the room seemed to dip lower.

7 don’t need your permission,” Dawn said. “I’m telling you that I am borrowing her. I’ve already secured the board’s support. Perhaps you would like to take up your issues with them?”

Logan did not reply for a long moment. Dawn seemed perfectly content to wait.

“What, exactly, do you need with Hazel?” Logan asked after a while.

“It’s simple,” Dawn said. “She’s going to help me convince the other employees to accept the new rules.”

That didn’t sound simple at all!

“She could refuse,” Logan said.

“That’s simple too,” Dawn replied. “If she doesn’t help me, I’ll fire her too.”