You Complete Me novel (Skylar and Coralie)
Chapter 117

Although a whole night had passed, Coralie's cheeks were still tinged with red.

Skylar reached out and helped her to tuck her hair away from the face. "Don't worry, it's not obvious."

At least, he couldn't see it clearly from such a distance.

After breakfast, Skylar sent Coralie to work but dropped her off when they were some hundred meters away from the company.

As soon as Coralie entered the company, she met Felicia. Felicia took out her mobile phone and showed it to Coralie. "Look, Harrison really took his wife to the Maldives during the holidays, he even sent some photos."

The photo was forwarded to the colleagues' group chat. The colleagues were all admiring that how Harrison was a model husband and how all the other female colleagues should replace a husband like him. "Yesterday I saw him at a restaurant with Alison."

Looking at Harrison's wife in the photo with a happy and sweet smile stretched across her face, Coralie felt a little pity for her.

"Well, what can we do?"

After Felicia finished speaking, she put away her phone and the two of them took the elevator upstairs together.

When the elevator door was about to close, Harrison suddenly dashed from a distance. Seeing Coralie in the elevator, he immediately said politely, "Coralie, I'm really sorry for what happened yesterday. It was my fault that she lashed out like that."

Since it was working hours, there were a lot of colleagues in the elevator. Everyone looked at Coralie and Harrison curiously.

After all, Harrison was a team leader in the sales department, but Coralie was just a newcomer who joined the company less than half a year ago. Why did Harrison speak to her like so courteously? "It's okay, don't worry about it."

Coralie could sense the strange look from the colleagues, so she waved her hand in an instant, hoping that Harrison would stop with his apology.

However, Harrison behaved as if he didn't hear it and insisted, "I didn't expect that you've been remarried..."

His words invited more curious looks from everyone in the elevator, and they were now focused on Coralie.

Coralie finally realized that Harrison was venting his anger on her in the company because he felt aggrieved from the previous day's incident with Skylar.

When they heard the word "remarried", the curiosity amongst the colleagues kicked up a notch.

The finance department was on the sixth floor. Seeing that the elevator door was about to open, Coralie regained her poise. She looked at Harrison and said, "Mr. Davis, my personal matters have nothing to do with you. I hope you can leave some privacy for me."

After that, she walked out of the elevator without looking back.

The colleagues around seemed to have feasted their eyes on a good show. After a back and forth debate, Coralie got the upper hand.

After all, big companies had their own rules. For example, it was the most fundamental rule to never enquire about other people's personal affairs. Harrison's actions just now obviously violated this rule. Coralie was right to warn him.

No matter what, her divorce, or even divorces, were all her personal affairs.

After getting off the elevator, Felicia showed Coralie a thumbs-up. "Coralie, you're amazing. You must teach me the secret on how to silence the other party in one sentence."

As a matter of fact, Coralie was not the kind of person with a particular glib tongue. She thought that she just told the truth.

In the office, everyone was discussing about the registration for the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) course that began on March 1st.

When Coralie arrived in the office, a colleague asked her, "Coralie, it's almost time to sign up. Are you planning to take the course this year? If you are, I can pass you my past year text book."

In fact, most of them in the office had already completed level 2 of the CPA examination. The only ones who hadn't were probably newcomers like Coralie and Felicia.

"I want to sign up for level 1."

Coralie had enough experience to sit for the level 2 examinations, but she was worried that she couldn't pass the exam, so she thought of starting with level 1 first.

When Felicia heard that Coralie was signing up for level 1, she immediately kindly reminded her, "Coralie, the company won't raise your salary if you only completed Level 1. Only those who completed level 2 are eligible for a raise of 800 dollars a month."

"800 dollars?"

Coralie's previous company was also bounded with the same rule, but the raise was only three to four hundred dollars. She didn't expect Skyton Corporation to be so generous for a raise of 800 dollars at once "Is she short of a mere 800 dollars? President Holland could easily give her a year's worth of that!"

At this time, Joanna happened to walk in from the outside. When she heard their discussion on the salary raise, she didn't forget to take a stab at Coralie.

After all, in her opinion, she was not any worse than Coralie in any aspect, but she lost to Coralie for not bagging for herself a boyfriend like Skylar. She felt that it wasn't fair!

Coralie looked over. In the new year, Joanna's hair had become more bewitching than ever. It was bleached a platinum blond with a tinge of pale pink.

However, Coralie did not pay attention to Joanna. Instead, she went to the colleague who offered the lend her the textbook.

In the new year, everyone had changed more or less.

The colleague who lent the textbook to Coralie looked at Coralie's usual dark and straight hair and reminded kindly, "Coralie, you are quite beautiful, but your style is quite obsolete. Perhaps, if you curled your hair and dyed it ash brown, you'd look much better."

In her previous company, Xenia often advised Coralie to permanently curl her hair, but Coralie felt that it took a lot of time and money. At that time, she had neither of those resources. No matter how hard Xenia persuaded her, Coralie would inevitably refuse.

After she left her job, Coralie no longer thought about changing her hairstyle.

Hearing her colleague's suggestion, Felicia agreed. "I agree. Coralie, you don't know how to dress yourself up and to put on makeup. Otherwise, you will definitely look so much better."

Joanna was unhappy that no one realized how she had changed her hairstyle. Instead, they all flocked around Coralie and discussed her. She sat in her seat and sneered, "Could she change her hairstyle as she likes? Perhaps President Holland likes her long, straight hair and her bare face. What if President Holland doesn't like it after she changes her hairstyle? A person in her position is different from us, she can't do whatever she wants."

"Why don't you try straightening and dying your hair dark and go barefaced too?"

Coralie glanced at Joanna and didn't say more. Then she walked to the pantry with her cup in her hand.

Felicia chased up to Coralie and soothed her. "Don't argue with Joanna. She is so annoying. I know she's jealous of you and President Holland's good relationship."

When Felicia spoke, she was standing close to Coralie. She happened to catch a glimpse of the love bite behind Coralie's ear that was covered with concealer. Even though Felicia was a young fresh graduate she also had a boyfriend, so she naturally knew what it was.

She poked the mark on Coralie with her finger and teased, "Oh, I didn't expect you to be so passionate with President Holland."

Coralie immediately blushed when she heard what Felicia said and was even poked by her at the spot. She covered the love bite with her hand quickly and tried to clear herself, "I accidentally scratched my skin yesterday."

Felicia, of course, understood. She paid no heed to Coralie's explanation. "I envy you so much, Coralie. You have a boyfriend who is so handsome. I want a handsome boyfriend too! I'll be happy just by staring at his face every day."

Perhaps it was because of her young age, in Felicia's eyes, Skylar's main attractive point was his good looks. As for his other qualities, she didn't think too much about it.