Tyler was waiting for her to go through the documents, both of them were too invested in it and started discussing on the corridor. Marley who just walked out from the President room saw this scene.
Her dark hair was tied up, she looked immaculate. Her side profile looked calm and gentle, her gaze serious, that note of seriousness shone like a bright light, as if it was a flawless piece of jade.
The coffee that he had wanted was in Tyler’s hands, and at the moment, he was drinking it.
Marley frowned slightly.
“President!” Maisy called out.
“Yeah!” Marley nodded, and walked towards them.
“Where’s my coffee?” Marley frowned.
Tyler almost spat out the gulp of coffee that he had just taken. “Oh! This is yours, I’m so sorry, I accidentally took it!”
“I’ll go make a new cup now!” Sylvie lowered her head, quickly explaining to Tyler the source of the data, and turned around to head to the pantry to make a coffee. She was very calm, as if nothing had happened last night.
“Marley, let’s head to the office!” Tyler said.
Marley nodded, turned around and retracted his gaze that was firmly on Sylvie.
At the moment, at the end of the corridor, Ernie came up from the stairs, on his forehead was a white piece of gauze. Seeing Sylvie, he greeted her smilingly, “Hi! Sylvie, morning! Did you get a scolding yesterday? How was it? Did it go okay?”
Sylvie paused for a second, seeing Ernie, she subconsciously stood on the spot, maintaining her distance, but still greeted him politely, “Vice President, good morning!”
Ernie laughed out loud and walked straight over.
Sylvie retreated a step, still maintaining a distance.
But Ernie walked in front of her, in between his laughter carried an obvious harassment that couldn’t be ignored, an air of boiling evilness wafted towards her, “What’s wrong?”
He wasn’t standing close, but it wasn’t far either, about a distance of half a metre.
This scene made Marley who was about to enter the president room stop in his tracks. He narrowed his eyes, and looked over from afar. Then, as if hesitating on whether to go over!
“Is your injury alright?” Sylvie couldn’t help but ask in concern, the injury was caused by her, regardless of how she felt in her head or her heart, she should still show a bit of concern.
But Ernie instead laughed. “Oh! Not bad, you still know how to show concern for me, how was last night? Did you get punished severely?”
His words made her not sure whether to laugh or cry. Sylvie raised her head, and looked at him, “Vice President, this is working hours, if you’re not busy, I am busy! I’ll head off first!”
“Too bad someone is here to find trouble!” Ernie shrugged, and looked at Marley who was walking straight over.
Marley’s gaze was ice cold on Ernie. Sylvie turned around and saw him, chills went down her spine, her scalp turned numb. She lowered her head, and in a light and soft girly tone, “President, I’ll go make the coffee immediately.”
“I think it’s better you guys have a good chat instead of working!” Marley said in his deep voice sarcastically.
Sylvie pursed her lips.
“Marley, where have your capabilities gone? Your own woman got kidnapped yesterday, and almost got ruined. I came over to show a little bit of concern, and you’re not happy! Still acting so strangely, I haven’t even questioned how you protect her? Have you not investigated yesterday’s matter?” Ernie said coldly, “Marley, if you can only treat Sylvie like this, why not you let go, and let her be with me, I can promise nothing of this sort will happen.”
“Vice President, this is the office!” Sylvie quickly intercepted, she felt extremely awkward. “I’ll head back to work!”
Just when she was about to leave, Ernie blocked her pathway. “There must also be an exception to work and personal life separation. Yesterday’s matter was both a personal matter and a company matter, if you got caught by other people, shouldn’t our President give an explanation?”
Marley’s handsome face changed slightly, he looked at Ernie coldly. “This is a matter between me and Sylvie, it has nothing to do with you!”
“I came here just to ask you how you protect our female staff! This should be considered work matters right?” Ernie framed it as if it were so noble.
Sylvie didn’t know what to say at that moment, she retreated again slightly, once again increasing the distance between them.
“Sylvie, look! When something happens he thinks of his own dignity first, he’s so afraid of being cheated on, he has no capabilities himself. After a night, he still hasn’t investigated the matter properly! He still doesn’t want to be cheated on, this type of man, are you sure you want to spend the rest of your life with him?” Ernie commented coldly at the side.
“Vice president, if this is a work matter, then don’t bring in personal matters!” Sylvie was worried that Ernie was adding oil to fire and making Marley even more angry. This guy couldn’t wait for war to break out.
“Thanks for your hard work regarding yesterday’s matter!” Marley turned to say to Ernie. “As for the investigation outcome, how do you know that I have not found out anything? I will be explaining this matter to Sylvie and not you! Also, vice president, you got hurt because of protecting our staff, the company will compensate you for your injuries, you don’t have to come to work this week, you can head home for a rest!”
Finishing his words, Marley pulled Sylvie and walked towards the President room.
Tyler was also shocked, mumbling while looking at the situation from afar, even Maisy and Daria were acting weirdly, he didn’t know what happened.
Marley’s hands were especially strong, Sylvie’s hand that was being held by him felt painful, Sylvie was in so much pain she was frowning, but she didn’t say anything and simply bit her lips.
Ernie stood at the corridor, seeing her frown, and seeing the way Marley was holding her, he couldn’t bear it and shouted over loudly, “Marley, you’re hurting her wrist!”
Marley turned around to look at Sylvie who had her head lowered and was frowning, and his grip got even tighter!
The pain shot through her heart, Sylvie bit her lips firmly. She looked up in surprise, and met Marley’s dim eyes, even Tyler was stunned.
“President?”
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...