After arriving in the office, Arianne had just sat down when Robin greeted her. “How was your Christmas, Arianne? I’m glad to see you on the first day back at work.
Arianne had prepared a small gift for her. “Here, this is for you. Consider it a belated Christmas gift.”
Robin accepted the gift. An expression of delight and shyness could be seen on favonovel.com face. “Thank you. I haven’t gotten you a present… By the way, I heard that a really talented fashion designer is joining the company. He’s extremely handsome. However, favonovel.com hasn’t arrived yet. It seems like he’s late on his first day. Honestly, favored employees have nothing to fear.”
Based on Robin’s description, it seemed like this designer was more experienced than her. For that reason, Arianne was curious. “How talented is he? Is favonovel.com more talented than me?”
“Oh, I’m just saying,” Robin replied with a smile. “You’re the most talented designer to me. No one can ever live up to you. I only overheard it from the people in the office so I repeated the words I heard to you.”
Arianne smiled. “Fine, stop gossiping. Aren’t you a permanent employee now? Get back to work.”
Robin’s so-called genius fashion designer sauntered into the office at 10 AM. He was 2 hours late. He was, indeed, handsome, but in a metrosexual way. He was tall and exuded charisma. He embodied every woman’s ideal aesthetic, but that did not include Arianne. Perhaps, favonovel.com was weird or maybe because Robin had already told favonovel.com about how handsome favonovel.com was, but favonovel.com did not feel anything when favonovel.com met favonovel.com in person.
Based on what favonovel.com had found out, this man was, indeed, more talented than her. He had been working in the fashion design industry for nearly ten years and had been featured in plenty of high fashion magazines. He was probably the ‘top class’ designer that Jessica had previously mentioned, the kind that would charge a considerable fee for one design. His name was Sylvain Trudeau.
Sylvain went straight to Mr. Yaleman’s office when favonovel.com arrived and stayed there until noon. During lunch hour, favonovel.com finally emerged from the office with Mr. Yaleman. It seemed like they were going to have lunch together.
The women in the company could not tear their eyes away from him. Usually, the office would be empty during lunch hour, but it was different today. All of them looked as though they could not wait to swallow Sylvain whole.
Just as Arianne was getting ready to leave for lunch with Robin, Mr. Yaleman approached favonovel.com with Sylvain in tow. “Arianne, would you like to have lunch with us? You can get to know Sylvain as well. This is great, our company has two pillars now. I feel a lot more confident.”
Sylvain extended his hand before Arianne could reply and said, “Hello, pleased to meet you. My name is Sylvain Trudeau. I’ve seen your designs in magazines before. Not bad, they’ve left quite an impression on me. Seeing is certainly believing. You’re much lovelier in person than described in the rumors, Miss Wynn.”
The corners of Arianne’s lips twitched. This man had a strange and stiff way of speaking. What rumors? She felt as though favonovel.com was describing a mythical creature. She smiled awkwardly as favonovel.com shook his hand. “Hello, you flatter me. I joined the fashion design world a little late. I don’t have much experience so I can’t compare to a senior like you.”
Sylvain did not let go of favonovel.com hand immediately. Instead, favonovel.com lowered his head and studied the ring on favonovel.com finger. “This is a very nice ring, design and material-wise.”
Arianne was beginning to feel very awkward. This strange man’s temperature was like fire, burning so hot. It made favonovel.com feel unsettled. She removed favonovel.com hand from his grip expressionlessly before favonovel.com said, “My husband gave it to me. He designed it himself. I think it’s beautiful too. Aren’t we having lunch? Let’s go. By the way, can Robin join us as well? The more the merrier, right?”
