He Lent His Laptop to a Girl for an Interview — Unaware She Was the Disguised CEO!
Chapter 13
Five years passed.
Olivia was thirty-four.
Ethan was forty.
Bennett Group had become a different company.
Smaller.
More ethical.
More stable.
Olivia remained CEO.
Ethan became chairman of operations.
Their marriage was strong.
Then a new generation of executives began pushing for aggressive expansion.
They wanted faster growth.
Less oversight.
Fewer restrictions.
Olivia recognized the pattern.
She called a board meeting.
“We’ve seen this before.”
One executive laughed.
“That’s history.”
“No.”
Olivia looked around the room.
“It’s memory.”
Ethan sat beside her.
She proposed stronger rules.
The board resisted.
The vote was close.
Then an unexpected group supported her.
Junior employees.
They had submitted written statements about what the old culture had been like.
Fear.
Silence.
Pressure.
One employee wrote:
“We don’t need leaders who never make mistakes.”
“We need leaders who admit them.”
Olivia read the statement aloud.
The board voted.
Her reforms stayed.
That evening, Ethan told her,
“You know what I love most about you?”
“What?”
“You stopped trying to be perfect.”
She smiled.
“I had a good teacher.”
“Who?”
“You.”
He laughed.
“That sounds suspicious.”
She kissed him.
“Good.”
