Tears streamed down my face. I could no longer hold my emotions back.

“Why are you here?!” Samuel’s voice suddenly resounded from the door.

He froze when he saw my tears.

When he tried to explain, hurried footsteps sounded not too far away.

I looked over and saw Mia rushing over.

Her gaze landed on the work ID I held in my hand, and she instinctively looked at Samuel.

Samuel said nothing. He just pursed his lips as he stood there.

Mia instantly teared up as though she had never been ignored by Samuel in this way before.

“I’m sorry, but that work ID belongs to me. Could you return it?”

I snickered. “Your office table is right here. Why should I give it back to you?”

I put the work ID back on the office table.

“Dawn, don’t cross the line.” Suddenly, Samuel spoke up.

There was a warning look in his eyes, as if he was displeased because I was being “unreasonable”.

I looked at him in surprise. I was crossing the line?

When Mia saw that Samuel was protecting her, she smiled, but she still tried to look pitiful.

“Samuel, don’t be angry at her. She doesn’t know what happened.”

Then, she walked to me, as if she wanted to offer an explanation about the whole thing.

Her words only proved that my assumptions were right.

“I came here to work because I was in trouble…”

“That’s enough. You don’t have to say anything to her.” Samuel scowled. “You were hired through proper procedures. She can’t do anything about it.”

I sneered at that.

Based on the information I got from a private detective, Mia was just an undergraduate from an ordinary university that was not even ranked among the top universities in the country.

Samuel’s company was supposed to only hire those who were postgraduates.

When I asked him to hire me, he had refused and used that exact excuse.

I was furious when he said no. That was the only time he had spoken to me gently when I seethed silently in a corner.

“It’s not that I don’t want to pull some strings, but we only hire postgraduates, and you’re just an undergraduate.”

At that time, I glared at him in indignation.

“I was guaranteed a postgraduate position but didn’t go for my studies because of special circumstances. Have you forgotten that?”

Samuel sighed. “But in the end, you didn’t go, did you?”

I could not argue after that because it was true that I did not go for further studies.

“I thought your company only takes in postgraduates,” I said coolly.

I realized that I was insulting myself by saying that.

Samuel did not answer, only glaring at me in dissatisfaction.

I sucked in a deep breath before looking at Mia.

“Please step out. I need to discuss some things with Mr. Gardner.”

Mia nodded, but Samuel grabbed her as she was walking out.

“Her office is here. Where is she supposed to go?” His frown deepened.

I was not expecting Samuel to show me such blatant disrespect, but I did not want to appear undignified, so I just brushed aside the bitterness in my heart. “If that’s the case, shall we talk in the meeting room?”

Samuel said nothing and just left.

I said nothing to Mia and followed him into the meeting room.

He sat at the head of the table and stared at me like he had already won.

“So, why are you here?”

“Why didn’t you come to the courthouse?”

Honestly, I thought that it was unnecessary to even ask that question. “Are you seriously going to protect her to this extent?”

Samuel said, “I’m not doing it to protect her…”