An Angel Named Valerie

Marino walked to guide Velina into his office room.

The office room was located on the 7th Floor of the Val Entertainment Building. This building was quite complete, combining the Val Agency and the Val Production House at once.

The 1st floor was used for receiving guests, the waiting room, and there was also a cafe that sold various drinks, as well as light snacks or a few heavy meals.

This cafe was open for 24 hours because the activities at Val Entertainment never end. The 2nd and 3rd floors contain training classes for talents who would be transformed into artists according to their respective fields.

There were some acting classes, singing classes, drama classes, practice rooms for independent practice, and so on.

The 4th floor consisted of several recording rooms and an indoor shooting studio, while the 5th floor was used for employees of the production house and post-production studio.

The 6th floor has several studios devoted to A-Class Val Entertainment artists, and also several public lounges that could be used by artists who have been officially debuted as artists by Val Entertainment.

Meanwhile, on the 7th floor was dedicated to the management and board of directors' offices and meeting rooms.

Velina was amazed at the interior of Marino's office. The room was in a chic minimalist style, white color with some color-block furniture, quite striking.

She immediately dropped her body on the greenish-yellow long sofa. To her, the color of the sofa looked like a big, sticky caterpillar. Just like Marino who always tried to stick to her when she came home.

She then turned her gaze to a painting of a beautiful woman wearing a white dress, her laughter looked contagious.

The painting had a fantasy theme, there was a pair of beautiful wings shone behind the woman's body.

At the bottom, there was a name, which seemed to be the name of the woman in the painting, 'Val', taken from the nickname of Velina's mother, Valerie al Ghazali.

The painting was framed in black, making it look even more mysterious and amazing at the same time.

Velina let out a deep breath. She loved the painting, for some reason, the painting made her felt mellow all of a sudden, imperceptibly, there was water pooling in both corners of her eyes.

"This painting is so beautiful! Can I have this, please?" She asked Marino with a plea.

"Nope! Never!" Marino replied quickly.

He deliberately invited a famous fantasy painter from Russia to paint his mother's face into his fantasy.

"Brother... My handsome big brother..." Velina got up from the sofa, walked over to him, tried to be as cute as she could.

Marino only glanced briefly, refocusing on the documents in front of him.

Silently, a smile blossomed at the corner of his lips. In truth, he felt happy when Velina called him 'big brother'. It had been a long time since he heard Velina call him 'brother'.

In reality, this was happened because of his stupid pride when he was younger.

Several years ago, when the two of them were still living in Hang Zhou City to study martial arts, Marino, who at that time was one of the top students, liked to annoyed his little sister. Annoyed at being constantly bullied by her own brother, Velina ended up getting angry.

She challenged his brother to a duel. On the condition that if she won, she would stop calling Marino as 'big brother' and Marino would not bother her anymore.

Knew that their bodies had a vast difference and that they were 5 years apart in age, Marino was being arrogant.

He accepted his younger sister's challenge.

Both of them had a duel for a long time, witnessed by everyone in the martial art school.

Convinced that he would win, Marino, who was about to charge Velina with his kick, slipped. Seeing that her brother fell with his buttocks in pain, Velina immediately locked his brother's head and hands.

Since that incident, Marino was being ridiculed by the children at the martial art school.

Marino took a deep breath when he remembered their innocent past.

Now, Velina had become a much stronger figure than he had ever remembered.

Behind her waves of laughter, Marino knew how far Velina had gone behind that happy face.

Velina walked over to her brother, who was sitting on the president director's chair, then stood behind his chair.

Then, she wrapped her smooth hands around Marino's shoulders, still tried to be as cute as she could.

"Brother... My dearest brother..." she asked, shaking her brother's chair.

Embarrassed by being approached by his silly younger sister who was usually very ignorant of him, finally, it made Marino's heart melt too.

That hunk finally nodded his head.

"Later I will contact the painter to make a painting that looks similar to this one, okay, but not this one! I just love it so much!" Finally, he was willing to compromise with Velina.

Velina was super happy with herself because of the 'attack tactic' that she launched had finally worked, Velina laughed in satisfaction.

She said, "Yaaaay! I finally did it!" she then immediately kissed Marino's left cheek with all of her might. "Thanks, Marino, I love you so much!. I really do!" she continued again.

She then immediately kissed Marino's right cheek, also with all of her might, deliberately making it wet, which made Marino grumble in annoyance. "Eh, sorry brother, I did it on purpose!" she said coquettishly, still hugging Marino from behind.

Without them knowing it, someone was watching them both, she was watching their behavior from the door that was not tightly closed.

She clenched her hands at the sides of her body in annoyance.

She then narrowed her eyes, looking at Velina with hatred.

"Eh, Mandy? How come you are here?" Asked Eva, who just came back from the toilet.

She greeted Mandy at that moment, the girl that she saw was watching Marino's office room from the door that was slightly ajar.

Mandy looked surprised when she suddenly heard Eva's voice from behind her, not expecting that woman's sudden appearance.

Mandy tried to neutralize her facial expression, then she said, "I was going to give a gift to Mr. Marino from Paris Fashion Week, but it looks like he has a guest, so… Maybe next time!" she replied while turning her body, and immediately walked quickly leaving the place accompanied by Eva's confused look.