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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
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2024-12-08 22:43:09
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The next day, when Maddy got to the school, Maria’s signed consent form was sitting at her desk. It was at the same time it clicked that she had forgotten to call Maria’s guardian back the day before. So as not to forget, Maddy made a reminder on her phone. Maddy’s classes that day turned out to be not as active as she would have liked them to be, and for the most part, it was her fault. Her thoughts were preoccupied with seeing that man again. Maddy blamed herself for the confidence that she would never see him again. Coward. Sure, she was a coward. A coward who was going to protect her daughter, a coward who doesn’t want another party to come into their lives and disrupt it. He’s not just another party. He’s Lea’s father. “Miss Meadows?”Like her eyes just cleared up, Maddy saw two students standing in front of her. Their faces were full of worry. “Are you okay, Miss Meadows? The closing bell has already rung.”A quick glance at the classroom showed that half of the class had alr
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Lacey was heading home when Maddy’s call came in. Seeing her call, Lacey smiled, immediately ready to give Maddy a rundown of the whole happening with Piano Man, but when her greeting was met with her sobbing best friend, Lacey was instantly on alert.“I’m coming.” No questions asked. If Maddy needed Lacey at that moment, then nothing except an emergency could keep Lacey from going. “Mads, you’re at home, right?”“No,” Sob, “School.”By six in the evening was a time Lacey knew Maddy was usually home by, unless she had another errand to run. It was weird that she was still at the school, but maybe something had happened there
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Lacey followed behind Maddy in her own car until her best friend got home, then she made a detour and drove back to her apartment.“... it makes me want to push back just to see how much it’ll take for him to snap.”Saying those words aloud had been a personal confession to herself. She’d been wondering why Piano Man made her feel hot and cold simultaneously. It was because of that. What did it say about her that the first man she’d felt any attraction to in a while turned out to be someone who didn’t seem to like her?Laughing, Lacey thought of how things just could never be straightforward with her. Piano Man… The next time&
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Jonathan had nothing he wanted to say to Adam Rashidi at that moment, so he swiped to reject the call, then placed his phone on airplane mode.After that, Jonathan entered the department store to purchase a new shower unit, before went over to his parents and personally fixing it himself, under his mother’s scrutinizing gaze, of course. He didn’t stay for dinner like his mother hoped to, but returned to the office, where he ran into Thomas Wright.“Mr. Taley, I was told you’d left for the day.”As Jonathan didn’t stop walking, Thomas fell into step beside him. It wasn’t until Thomas was still with him when he got out of the elevator that Jonathan figured the other man wanted something from him. They hadn’t talked si
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“Is it okay if I come over now?”“Sure.”After receiving Jonathan’s confirmation, Steven made a sound to show that he heard his brother, then got into his car. In the front passenger seat, a potted plant and a box of wine and chocolates sat, serving as housewarming gifts. There was also a small bag with a change of clothes since he planned to stay the night at Jonathan’s new home.As he set out, the light blue sky gave way to a darker sky and as the clouds became more visible. The night sky had set when Steven arrived at Jonathan’s apartment. He happened to spot his brother having a conversation with a woman.It took a few seconds for the face to register i
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“The news will break out tomorrow.”Jonathan sat at the head of the table in the meeting room, surrounded by all the people he paid to keep his company out of the bad spotlight. A deep, exasperated sigh left his lips at the same time he started to massage his temples.“What do you plan to do?” Jonathan questioned the woman seated opposite him.She was the head of Public Relations. One of JT Entertainment’s major artists had been in an accident. The other driver had been at fault, but upon further investigation by the police, it was discovered that their artist had been driving under influence. Then he was arrested.The company’s PR department had managed to keep
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{Dear Lacey Thalmes, Your self-tape audition blew us out of the park. We’re pleased to inform you that you have passed the audition to train as an actor under JT Entertainment. You are expected to be at the company premises by 9 a.m on the 4th of October for orientation. We look forward to seeing you.Riley Jones,Recruiter, JT Entertainment.}It was a short email, quite easy to understand, still Lacey was having a hard time doing that. Her eyes ran through the content of the email two more times before she gave up trying to make sense of it. Add that to a list of the random things that had happened in her life recently. First of all, she hadn’t applied for any audition, so how could she have been accepted? Except…Scrambling out from under her bed covers, Lacey moved to unplug her phone from the charging port, then opened up her phone app. “Happy new month!” Adi’s cheery voice reached her ears immediately he picked up. That’s right, it was the first day of October. Still, Lacey c
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“That pink dress washes you out; next.”“Oh, that’s not good at all.”“Seriously, Lace,” a long groan, “why is your closet so bland?”It was 10 p.m on a Friday night, and while most people were reveling in their weekend break after the hectic week, Lacey was forced to try on dress after dress after dress, desperately hoping that the current one would be the final one. But, alas, Adi kept on saying no to the dress, so much that Lacey regretted taking him up on his offer to come over to help her pick out a dress for the wedding.Yup. Lacey had finally decided that she would attend the mysterious wedding. If not for anything else than to figure out who sent he
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Even though Jonathan didn’t get the chance to talk to Lacey, he wasn’t too bummed out by it after seeing that she wasn’t mad at him. She was back home safe, plus she had a friend to stay with her; those were enough for him. Upon getting back to his Penthouse, the first thing he did was go through his mails. Tomorrow, he was meeting with Director Jada Reign, and he wanted to make sure that she hadn’t sent an email canceling after the news his company was embroiled. Thankfully, there was no mail of cancellation, which meant they were still on for tomorrow. Jada had picked their meeting location; a newly opened fine dining restaurant Jonathan had never been to before called Maria. According to her, while she was in Italy, she had food made by the chef, and wanted to check out his new place. Jonathan didn’t protest. Jonathan found it a little weird that she wanted to go to a fine dining restaurant in the morning, but he kept that to himself.There were also a couple messages from his pa
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“So, how was your date?”Steven had a huge grin on his face all through the day, so much that when school was over and he passed by the front of her desk, Maddy had to ask. Almost like he’d been waiting to ask, Steven immediately plopped onto the spare chair at Maddy’s table. “It was my first time officially being on a date, but we clicked so easily.”“Hmm.” Maddy cocked her head to the side with an amused smile. “Does that mean you’ve been on unofficial dates before?”As Steven’s laughter subsided, he noticed Maddy wasn’t her usual self. She was smiling, but there was a blank look in her eyes. So he asked, “Do you have something on your mind?” Turning her head towards her friend, Maddy groaned a bit before responding. “I think I have a date, but unlike you, I’m not too excited for it.”Today was the day she was meeting Liam Tirro, but without Lea. After much deliberation on the matter, Maddy decided not to introduce her daughter to her father just yet. There were a couple reasons,
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Lacey quickly took in the presence of the three people standing at her door. She had been about to go into her room when she heard the sound of her keycode and went to check who it was. Since the only people who knew the code to her apartment were her mother and friends, she wasn’t all that surprised to find Sangah there. Except, there were two other people at the door. One face was unfamiliar, while the other person was a face Lacey seen earlier that day. Actually, he was the person she had wanted to reach out to the most. “Sangah, you’re back from South Korea?” “We flew in tonight. Holly and I were going to crash here. I thought you would still be at your Mum’s place.”Holly. Lacey’s eyes fell again on the beautiful woman whose arm was connected with Sangah’s elbow and smiled. Lacey took in her outfit of a flashy black dress and couldn’t help but wonder if she flew on the plane like that. “Holly?”“Holly.” Sangah turned a smile at the woman beside her. “Holly is my girlfriend. Ho
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“Let’s meet. Where are you? Office? I’ll drop–”“Adam, you seem to have a lot of free time lately,” Jonathan interrupted the other man with a sharp tone. Recently, Jonathan had had more contact with the other man than he would have liked, and he didn’t want to see the other’s face for a while. Which was why he added, “Tell me what it is you’re calling about.”Given that he was calling so soon after Lacey’s post went up, Jonathan had an easy guess as to what Adam Rashidi wanted. A playful, buoyant laugh came over the phone right before Adam responded. “It’s always business with you, isn’t that right, Jonathan? Well, you must already have an idea why I called you…” This was followed by a small pause before Adam continued, “Lacey Thalmes, send her to me.”Resisting the urge to hang up the phone, Jonathan opened his mouth to speak but Adam beat him to it. “Your company seems to be doing a bad job at protecting their artists. Give her to me and I promise to make her more famous than JT En
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The moment Lacey pressed the upload button and sent out her post into the world, she turned off her phone as a flurry of emotions hit her hard, the predominant ones being, of course, excitement and fear. She’d already given her friend group a heads-up of what she was about to do so they wouldn’t be too surprised if they came across her post. They were her friends so they would be on her side, but if what Jamie said was true, then the post was going to reach a lot more people. People who only knew her because of Thomas, people who didn’t know the real her, people who would be quick to write off her words as lies, and maybe also people who would believe her and be on her side. The enormity of the situation made Lacey want to shovel herself under the blankets, and stay in the room until it all blew over. Not on Jamie’s watch though. When Lacey was about to retreat back into the room, the other woman stopped her. She was the mastermind behind Lacey taking the decision to fight against
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Jonathan’s car was idling at a distance not so far away from Lacey’s mother’s house. Lacey told him to leave, but he didn’t want this to be how things ended between them. He really was going to do everything he could to fix it. But how? After he sat in his car thinking for a while, his ringtone filled the car. It was Riley calling. Unexpectedly, when he answered, Riley immediately started speaking. Her words were jumbled into each other and Jonathan couldn’t make them out. “Slow down, Riley. What happened?”“Are you with Lacey Thalmes right now? What silly ideas did you put in her head, Jonathan? Huh?” Riley’s words came out hard and fast. She was ticked off. This made Jonathan pay closer attention. “Tell Lacey that she can come back to JT if she takes down the post right now!”At first, Jonathan had been confused, but he heard clearly now Riley’s last statement. “Wait a minute. Did you fire Lacey already? What the hell, Riley? Why are you doing things without my permission?” There
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“Are you willing to fight?”It wasn’t the first time since meeting the woman that Lacey was left stunned, but this topped all those other moments. Jamie’s words made her heart beat faster. As part of it was from trepidation, but another part of it was the excitement that things could actually turn around. Jamie was right. If she let it go again this time, what was the assurance of a next time not happening? Would she have to spend the rest of her life looking back to make sure Thomas wasn’t catching up with her, ready to ruin her life one more time? In these past two years, he’d never been far from her though even after he was out of her life. Oh, is Thomas going to decide today to lie about me again? She had never fully stopped worrying about that. So, after a few moments of contemplation, Lacey came to a decision. Wearing a determined expression, she said, “I am going to fight. Thomas broke me once and almost ruined my life. I don’t want to let him do that again. But…” That was w
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“Lacey, are you okay in there?” A knock on the door made Lacey look up from her phone. “What’s going on? Why is the door locked?”It was tempting to ignore her mother, but after the fainting scare earlier, she didn’t want to find her mother in another dangerous situation, so Lacey placed her phone on the bed and got to her feet. Unlocking the bolt, she opened the door. “Lacey, what’s wrong?”“Nothing, Mum. Just something came up at work. Don’t worry about it.”Lana Thalmes’ expression grew even more worried. “It’s something serious, isn’t it? Earlier, before Jonathan left, I heard you shout. Did he do something to you?”Lacey’s head swayed side to side. She wasn’t in the mood to answer her mother’s questions, what with her world and entire life being overturned for the second time in two years, and by the same person. Two years wasn’t a lot of time to most people, but in that span, Lacey had gone through a divorce, turned her life around and gotten a job, only to find herself back in
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“Calm down, Adi. I can’t hear you,” Lacey said into the phone. She’d been having a chill time with Jonathan after he drove her and her mother home. They had been talking about random things, and somehow, it wasn’t weird that Jonathan was in her mother’s house. But then her phone rang, and it was Adi saying a lot of words she didn’t understand. “Lace, I asked where you were? Are you at JT Entertainment?”This time, she clearly heard him. With furrowed brows, Lacey responded, “No. Why? Do you need me to do something for you?”“No. No.” Adi’s voice sounded frantic. “It’s not that. It’s just…” As he hesitated, Lacey raised her gaze to see what Jonathan was up to on the other side of the room. Surprisingly, she found a grave expression on his face as he stared right at her. When he saw her looking his way, his features seemed to crumple in apology. Before Lacey could get confused about what was going on, she heard Adi’s voice through the phone. “What did Thomas do to you at the company?
