“Vivian? Where’s the bonus I asked you to approve for Julia? Why hasn’t it gone through yet?” His voice burst out with harsh criticism.
“How long are you going to drag this out? Don’t you know Julia desperately needs the money?”
When I stayed silent, his tone softened.
“Vivian, Julia urgently needs funds for her brother’s treatment. You know that, so why haven’t you approved it yet?”
“I filed the bonus application a long time ago, but Finance hasn’t released the money yet.”
Hearing disappointment in my own voice, I answered slowly.
“Then why don’t you go push for it? Julia is so kind and pitiful—don’t you know how to help her?” Ethan lowered his voice a little.
“Vivian, just do me this favor, alright?”
Hearing that gentle demand, my chest tightened. Just a favor for her? Then what am I to you?
You care about everything she faces, so I’m supposed to just do you a favor, right?
I muttered inwardly.
Julia, with nothing more than a junior high diploma, should never have been in this company. Ethan had slipped her in through the back door.
Everyone could see favoritism written all over his face.
“Also, Vivian.”
Ethan’s voice came again.