Mimi sat up on her bed, baffled and bewildered. Her mind was slow because her head was still mired in a fog between waking up and sleep. Her hair was a tangled mess of a nest, and she still had gunk in her eyes.Bleary, she was confused about what had happened.Mimi scratched her head, rubbed her eyes, and felt her phone. She browsed through major headlines in the entertainment news, wondering just what could have made her manager call in a hurry.Then she screamed.It was a yelp that came o
It had turned out to be the director’s assistant, who wasted no time for preamble and handed her a room card. “Take it. He’s waiting in his room.”Mimi had stared at the card, stupefied, for a really long time before finally getting a clue. The card had suddenly felt like a ticking time bomb in her hand, and she had shoved it back to the assistant without a second thought.It was the first time she had ever become victim to such an advance, and by God, the anxiety and panic felt helpless. She
Mimi had to jerk backward from her own reflection in the mirror. What the actual hell is with her face!?After yesterday’s self-pitying cry-fest, she woke up this morning to puffy red eyes and bed-made hair so knotty. A bird could have mistaken it for a nest. Then there was the fact that she had not removed her makeup since returning home because she was too upset to do anything these two days…The consequence to that admittedly unwise choice was that her waterproof mascara had combined with h
How the hell is this weirdo Elias’s pal?The more he considered it, the harder his glower became. He looked so belligerent that Mimi did not even dare to look up while secretly cursing her own stupidity. For God’s sake! Her theories should have stayed inside her head, especially when she was talking bad about her director on set! What the hell was she aiming for? Career suicide?The air around them gelled. Mimi could feel the storm cackling around the director even without meeting him in the
Elias did not wait for more of Zeke’s complaint before Elias erupted into a boisterous guffaw. “Hahahaha! Se said what now? Solicit sex? You and her? Hahahahahaha!”He wished he could be a cell in Mimi’s brain if it meant getting a glimpse of her thought process. Just how the hell did she come up with that?He laughed so much that his belly started to protest. The way Mimi’s thought process worked was just so absurd, he could not help but cackle. Unfortunately, to Zeke—who was genuinely smolde
Almost as soon as the doctor left, Jeanette hurried to him with her reddened eyes. “Did it hurt, Damon?”It had hurt. The agony was enough to cause his face to turn white. But if there was anything that hurt him even more than his wound, it was seeing Jeanette’s tears. The sight of them wrung his chest. “Silly girl, what are you crying for?”“It’s my fault. I’m so clumsy, I don’t even know how to properly take care of a patient, and n-n-now it’s swollen with pus. I… I should hire a healthcare
Light showered through the window and illuminated Jeanette’s profile.It shrouded her in its marigold hue as the color of the sun reflected off her cheeks like an aureole. She had a sharp, delicate chin—it was as chiseled as her tall, defined nose. Her snow-fair skin was so lustrous that at times, one might mistake it as being transparent altogether, especially since one could also peer a little into the vague, rosy bloodstreams hiding coyly under her skin when the light was just right. When sh
Damon nodded and replied softly, “Promise.”Their fingers slipped into each other’s spaces, their eyes linked. Happy. Contented.The door suddenly swung open.Every ounce of rosy sweetness was chased away by the arrival of an uninvited guest.Damon raised his head in palpable annoyance to meet whoever this savage, who did not even knock, was.Xavier strutted into the room with his hands in his pockets and his gait animated by an unapologetic swagger. He had put on a leather shirt and combed