An Intern Tried to Boss Around

Lily flinched uncontrollably, fear written all over her face. Just watching her like that made my chest tighten.

Once all the employees had crowded into the office, Sophia scooped up a ladle of water and splashed it straight onto my sister’s face.

People exchanged uneasy glances. A flicker of panic passed through the room.

Then, from the crowd, a former secretary who had worked under me for two years started clapping. “That’s Mrs. Shaw! That’s our boss’s wife!”

Others quickly followed, eager to flatter. “Rules make order. I support this!”

Sophia let out a cold laugh and shot my sister a sharp look.

“What are you standing there for?

“Start reading.”

She hung the decibel meter around my sister’s neck. “If you go over ten decibels, you get a ladle of water.”

Lily nodded quickly, lifting the contract, only for Sophia to press it back down.

“And if anyone says they didn’t hear you clearly, that’s five ladles.”

She paused, thinking. “Where did this water come from?”

“The restroom,” someone answered.

A slow, chilling smile spread across her face. “Perfect.”

“One ladle gets poured on you. Five ladles, you drink.”

Lily looked stunned, but in the end, she nodded.

My breathing grew shallow. My vision blurred.

“How did it come to this?”

I couldn’t believe she had become this submissive, that she didn’t even dare resist.

There had to be something I didn’t know.

At Sophia’s command, my sister began reading, her voice trembling.

But on the first sentence, she misjudged her volume.

Sophia kept her word.

A ladle of water drenched her from head to toe. Worse, she had turned the air conditioning down to sixty-one degrees and cranked the fan to high.

Standing directly beneath the vent, my sister shivered violently.

After several rounds, she finally managed to control her voice.

Then suddenly, the secretary interrupted. “Ma’am, sorry, I didn’t catch that.”

Another employee chimed in, “Me neither.”

Lily froze, confused.

Sophia tilted her chin at her. “Are you deaf?

“If someone can’t hear you, what are you supposed to do?

“Did you forget the rules already?”

Lily instinctively stepped back.

That only made Sophia furious.

She stood up and kicked my sister behind the knee, sending her crashing down.

The secretary exchanged a glance with another employee. Together, they dragged my sister over to the buckets.

“Hurry up. Drink.”

Lily resisted weakly. “Sophia… I mean, ma’am… I feel dizzy.”

“Can I not...”

Before she could finish, the secretary shoved her head down into the bucket.

Her muffled cries for help, mixed with the gurgling of water, filled the office.

“Stop!”

A firm voice cut through the chaos.

Several police officers appeared in the frame.

“We received a report. Who is Sophia Blake?”

Sophia shot my sister a vicious glare. “You really had the nerve to call the police?”

The livestream cut off.

The knot in my chest loosened slightly.

At least with the police there, Sophia wouldn’t dare go any further.

The moment the plane landed, my driver picked me up and sped toward the company.

At the same time, I received a follow-up call from the police.

“We’ve looked into the situation. There’s no evidence of abuse.

“Sophia denies everything.”

“That’s impossible,” I said immediately. “The girl she’s abusing is my sister, Lily Carter.”

“Please calm down,” the officer replied. “We spoke to Lily.”

“She stated herself that she was not being mistreated.”