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Ruby—that was her name—was now safely strapped in the backseat of her older brother’s car. As Adam Rashidi settled his sister into his car, Lacey felt a pinch on her arm and turned around to see Adi looking at her with wide eyes.From the movement of his lips, he seemed to be mouthing something along the lines of ‘How do you know him’ at her, but Lacey didn’t have time to figure out exactly what he was saying because of her mindfulness of Adam Rashidi’s presence. The next second, he straightened his posture and turned around with an apologetic smile.“I’m sorry about Ruby cutting your night short,” he apologized, looking right at Lacey, “but I’m glad that you were here.”“I&
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The car started moving after Adam got into the driver’s seat, and they were on their way. It looked like Adam Rashidi didn’t like any distractions while he drove as he didn’t put on the radio. Lacey only realized later that he’d done that so as not to disturb the sleeping Ruby at the back.“Are you–?“Is she–?”After the prolonged silence, what were the odds that they would start speaking at the same time? Lacey and Adam’s combined low laughter filled the car.“You can speak first.”“Ruby’s going to be fine, right?” Judging by Selma’s reaction when La
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Lacey’s gaze went back and forth between the two men before landing on Jonathan. Why was he looking at her like she just kicked his cat or something? It didn’t skip her attention that Adam and Jonathan appeared to know each other. It wasn’t all that surprising. Afterall, weren’t they both entertainment company CEOs? “How do you know Lacey?” It was Adam who asked this question, which made Jonathan tear his gaze away from Lacey. “She’s my actor. And we both live in this apartment complex. How do you know her?” The possessiveness in his voice made Lacey stare at him for a while. Choosing to ignore Jonathan’s question, he turned to Lacey with admiration in his eyes. “I didn’t know you were an actor.” The way he beamed at her, you would think she was a big name or something. “Well,” Lacey winced under the weight of Adam’s admiring eyes, “I’m only an actor in training under JT Entertainment. It’s not a determined thing yet.”Adam instantly latched onto that. “Well, if that ends up not
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“Have you lost your mind, Thomas? Let go of me!” In an attempt to free herself from her ex-husband’s strong grip, Lacey shook herself around wildly. When that didn’t work, she dug her heels into the ground to stop her movement, but Thomas was much stronger than her, and easily pulled her along. “Stop, Thomas. Stop, I’ll go with you. You don’t have to drag me.”There was a reason she said that. It wasn’t as if they were alone, but all the people they passed by all watched silently without making a move to help Lacey, and that was so embarrassing. Exasperated, she accepted her fate and didn’t dare protest anymore. What was the use?Thomas didn’t speak, but he did turn a glare at her before slightly shoving her away. The arm he held onto was already sore. Lacey winced, rubbing it gently. “Follow me.” Thomas growled, pointing a threatening finger at her. As a last plea for help, Lacey tried to make eye-contact with some of the people in the hallway, but they all turned their faces when
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“Jonathan!” Picture this: the CEO of a well known company on the ground, straddling his actor, while he proceeds to beat said actor into a pulp. It hadn’t happened yet, but judging by the first punch, Lacey knew Jonathan wasn’t going to stop at one. And therein lay the problem. His closed arm in a fist, raised to hit the loudly groaning Thomas, Jonathan stopped when he heard Lacey shout his name. She shook her head frantically, a sign telling him to stop. Looking away from her, Jonathan stood up before grabbing Thomas forcefully and pulling him up by the collar of his shirt. “What do you think you’re doing?” Pushing Thomas against the wall, Jonathan kept him captive with his elbow. “Hitting a woman, do you have no shame?”“Jonathan!” This time, it wasn’t Lacey who shouted his name, but another newcomer on the scene. “Release Thomas this instant.” When he wasn’t quick to obey, Riley rushed over and pulled him away. “Do you want to see yourself on the news? I can already see the hea
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“Take the day off. You don’t want to set Thomas off again, do you?” It wasn’t easy to push the memory of Riley’s evident hate as she accused her, but Lacey couldn’t dwell on it then. Not as she walked back into the practice room, disrupting them for a second time that day. Under the watchful and judgy eyes of her fellow actors-in-training, she picked up her bag before leaving the room. The feeling was exactly what Lacey imagined a walk of shame would feel like. Except the shame came not due to her own actions, but someone else’s. Arriving at the basement, Lacey played the whole scene in her mind. Funny how the whole thing took just about a few minutes, but somehow ended up dismantling all the things she’d worked for over the past month and half. “I don’t have to tell you not to tell Jonathan, right?”Definitely not. And risk embarrassing herself and souring the relationship between Jonathan and Riley? Lacey didn’t know what exactly the relationship between Riley and Jonathan was,
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“You–”“Don’t speak, Thomas.” Jonathan rudely cut the other man off. He stood at the window of his office, staring out at nothing in particular. The reason was so that he didn’t lash out at the other man, and got his emotions in order. As the image of Thomas choking Lacey came back to his mind, Jonathan squeezed his eyes shut. If not, there was no telling what he would do to the man seated behind him. Riley asked him to handle it without fighting, but the last thing he wanted to do was to be lenient with the man who just assaulted the woman he loved. “Mr. Taley, let me ex–”“Shut up, Thomas. If I hear another word from you without the clear permission to speak, your contract with JT Entertainment will be cancelled.” It was impossible to cancel Thomas’s contract just for him speaking, but Jonathan wasn’t above finding a clause that would ensure that the actor got put out of his company. In any sense, Thomas zipped his mouth and didn’t utter another word. Moving away from the window
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If Maddy had any doubts about it before, they were all gone now. The truth of the matter was that Liam didn’t know how teenage girls operated. Sorry, but a teenager was going to be overjoyed by suddenly finding out they were getting a sibling—well, in this case, sibling-figure—that was a toddler. That was one thing Maddy was sure of. Carefully, she studied Liam Tirro’s expression. He seemed really sincere about it, but Lea was her daughter and she had the final right to agree or refuse. His plan to introduce her daughter to her niece to make her come out of her shell wasn’t as brilliant as he probably thought. “Have you told Maria about you having a daughter?” Cautiously, she asked. Immediately shaking his head, Liam Tirro said softly, “I didn’t want to until I got confirmation that you were going to let me meet Lea. I’ll tell her when I get home at night.” Then, after a slight hesitation, he asked, “Speaking of which, did you take the day off?”Maddy ignored his question and fixed
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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?
