You Complete Me novel (Skylar and Coralie) novel Chapter 148

"Dad!"

She had always been good at pretending, but she had to drop her act in this matter.

"Valerie, haven't I been yielding to your wishes all this while? If this thing hadn't happened, I would have helped you even if I had to go against Skyton Corporation. But now, it's better for you to give up."

Originally, Hector Rae was going to compel Skylar into obliging to his wants. Now that the incident had happened, no one dared to associate with him anymore.

After all, the first thing that came to Hector's mind when he got the news was that Skylar might try to curse him.

"You, you can't cancel the engagement. We could just delay it."

Valerie eventually made a concession.

"No, don't even think about the engagement until the verdict is out," As the patriarch of the Rae family, Hector had always been a man of his words, "Alright, enough. I don't want to hear any words about this again!"

"Dad, do you want to see me lonely for the rest of my life?" Valerie's tears finally rolled down her cheeks, "You know that I have loved Skylar for so many years. I betrayed him in the past, yet he didn't dislike me. Now that this thing has happened to him, how could I leave him?"

She was talking about the affair she had in her senior year. She even got pregnant.

"Silly girl, how would you know that he doesn't dislike you? If he still likes you, do we need to spend so much effort on the engagement?

Amelia Harington felt sorry for Valerie.

In fact, the Holland family and Rae family were in a similar league. Their engagement could be easily decided between the heads of the families.

However, Amelia and Valerie had put in a lot of effort into it. They bought gifts for Lillian Ford and tried to suck up to her, and Hector even threatened Skylar.

Skylar obviously did not share the same feelings as Valerie did.

"So what? It's not easy for us to finally get engaged. Why do you...

"Valerie, do you really think that you could proceed with the engagement ceremony without Skylar tomorrow?"

Hector was infuriated that his daughter was stubbornly obsessed with Skylar.

"It's not impossible!"

After hearing Hector's words, Valerie thought that the idea was feasible.

"Enough! No one should mention this anymore. The Zac family in B City is going to hold an anniversary celebration soon. All of us will go. The eldest son of the Zac family is still single. They have also mentioned about linking our families with marriage before."

Valerie was aware of her father's underlying meaning.

If she couldn't marry Skylar, she would marry someone else. Any man was fine; as long as he was the son of a big company, as long as he could help with the business of the Rae family.

"I'm still going to marry Skylar!"

After saying that, Valerie wiped her tears and dashed into her room.

"Bang!" The door slammed shut.

Hector sat on the sofa and let out a long breath.

"Hector, do you think that Skylar had come up with this idea because he refused to marry Valerie?"

Amelia suspected it when she first heard of the news, but Valerie was there with her. She didn't want to hurt her daughter's self-esteem. Therefore, she kept her doubts to herself first.

"I hope so," Hector recounted the conversation that he had with Skylar and said, "In fact, Skylar came to me before and proclaimed that he would not marry Valerie. At that time, I wanted to press him further, but he told me not to push him to his edge. I'm afraid this is what he meant."

"This means..."

"If he succeeds in cursing the Rae family, then he won't have to marry Valerie."

Hector thought the matter was more complicated than it was on the surface.