The premiere night was in full swing.
The movie started with all the lights off except the screen in front of them. The bustling cinema quickly became silent as they focused on the movie that was about to start.
The entire time, Scottie was seated between Wolf and Ashley. She held her son’s hand the entire time, observing his every reaction the entire time. Ashley watched him got excited especially when she first appeared on screen. She also saw how his expressions kept on changing as the movie progressed.
Scottie’s little mouth pouted when he saw his mother crying silently on screen. He showed fear when the police was about to take his mother away. And he showed unprecedented need to destroy everything around him when he watched them hurt his mother in the prison cell.
Scottie knew that it was all a drama. But his young mind was influenced by his mother’s amazing acting skills and
Flashes of blue and red entered the right-wing entrance of the Peninsula Hotel. Located at the most secluded area of the Peninsula Hotel, this entrance was only used by the VVIP. Mostly, it was used when Jaxon Elijah came to visit V City and he would stay in the hotel for a night rest or a quick nap.No one ever envisioned that the 9-1-1 firetruck along with its paramedics would use this very special entrance this day.Notified by the general manager in advance to open the right-wing entrance, the firetruck and the paramedic car arrived which was immediately welcomed by the two monitoring room security guards.At the same time, at the highest floor of the Peninsula Hotel, Jaxon Elijah just received the news from Harold who also just got the urgent report from the general hotel.Jaxon dropped his pen. Blood drained from his face as he opened the interface that connected him to all of the monitoring of
Ashley closed the door behind her in a very gentle way, too scared to wake up the exhausted child inside the hospital’s VVIP room. Her eyes quickly met Jaxon who was the only one who remained after an exhausting night. Although they were the only ones in the hallway, she could still see the patrolling soldiers, policemen, and their k-nine dogs outside the glass wall of the hallway.Jaxon handed Ashley a warm knitted blanket and a cup of steaming coffee which she took before she sat on the chair right outside her son’s private ward. “Did they answer?”Jaxon was in a dilemma. His team found out from the leader’s phone that his son was photographed secretly during the premiere night. They used this as a lead and found out about an actress named Atasha who had a beef with Ashley. His team focused on this motive and found out about another connection—Talia. The team had Atasha’s manager surrender Atasha’s phone as soon as possible. There, they found more traces of Talia. The same picture w
Nexus was at the rooftop of Orion Hotel when all shit went downhill on Ashley’s side.He was just done with the meeting with all the gang leaders of V City. Nexus changed into simple homely clothes, bought all the things from the nearest shopping mall, and readied everything from the finest detail to the other.He was planning to have a picnic under the starry night with the mother and son. It was not leaning on the romantic way but Nexus wanted to introduce himself formally to Scottie.According to his men working in the weather center of the city, tonight, a phenomenon in which the fog that veiled the city for many years would be swept away by the monsoon near the northern area of the city. With this monsoon, the wind would chase away the fog—even the clouds—giving way for the stars to show off its luster in its once in a blue moon opportunity! After all, a monsoon would not happen every other day.
Ashley never thought she would be able to drive like this again—as if she discarded her life.She once learned how to drive as if being chased by the devil. In the last life, Nexus once brought her to his racetrack. The cold wind against her face woke her up from her drunkenness that time and she fell in love with cars almost instantly.Who would have thought that she would be using this skill—the skill that she thought she would never touch in this life—once more?As Ashley maneuvered the car’s steering wheel, she just took from the monitoring room guard, her mind wandered. She remembered how she dashed to the nearest parking lot and saw the tail of the car. One of these two cars was clearly chasing the SUV in the front—it should belong to Wolf.While speeding up, she looked for a cellphone on the dashboard or in the small compartments that she could reach while letting
The moment the north bridge shut down; half of the city was immediately paralyzed. Traffic jams could be seen every corner of the city. From green to red then from orange to red, everyone was put to a halt as if the city became still as water.Curses from all the people stuck in the traffic intertwined with the symphony of car honks. The sirens from the local police started to spread like wild fire across the city. These traffic police officers mobilized their one hundred percent in order to keep peace and order despite the sudden ruckus.The lower-ranked policemen wondered if something big happened to push the city mayor to leave a very important investment meeting. Was it a terrorist attack? Was it something that involved the dark side of the society? No one in the lower command level knew. They could only follow the chain of command silently.With the way the entire city was mobilized, they still had the common sense
Jaxon never felt this way ever since he was young.Standing twenty meters away from the SUV, he did not wear any bulletproof vests or helmets in which his bodyguards were against to begin with yet they could not do anything about it. Jaxon did not want to set off these criminals since he did not know what they were after for.Was it for money? Was it a revenge scheme from his business rivals?Jaxon did not know.So, he waited. As soon as he received his Grandfather’s call that gave him the go, the city was immediately under martial law.With the help of the young lad provided by Nexus, his team was able to lock down the SUV where his son was taken and kept hostage by these unknown people. From land to the air, the police and the military locked it down.Computing its possible route, his team locked the roads, stopped the flow of traffic, and forced the
Ashley did not know she missed the feeling of holding this baby until she held it once more. In her last life, it was due to sheer brokenhearted-ness that pushed her to look for something thrilling from Nexus. Then he took her to his basement and introduced her to the other side of him.He generously let her choose any guns. To think he let her take anything inside his basement filled with murder weapons—she even doubted if he had something that could destroy buildings or potentially destroy cities. She did ask him jokingly and he also answered ‘yes’ jokingly. To this day, Ashley did not really know if it was indeed a joke. Probably not.Now, Ashley still circled back. The quick ‘addiction’ she had with this baby, she thought it would remain a beautiful memory for her—something she would keep in her heart but would never be looked back.Oh, how wrong she was!In th
“Scottie?” Ashley murmured incredulously under her breath. She looked away from the lens for a minute, took a deep breath, and looked into it again—only to see her son clinging for whatever reason to that huge man in black mask.Nexus, who was back and who was holding his binoculars, could not help but frown as well. “Hold on.” He called Wolf in which the latter immediately answered. “What’s going on?”Wolf, who successfully went out of the Cadillac without being noticed by the men in the SUV, was now hiding in a blind angle. He was crouching and looking over what was happening near the kid. Of course, he had seen Scottie’s reaction. But compared to Ashley and Nexus, he had a better view. He saw the look of reluctance in the child’s face.This was something that Wolf first noticed after seeing Scottie clinging to the big masked man’s neck as if he did not
“What? What happened?” Cielo’s manager stood up, knocking the champagne glass all over the carpeted floor. He was too scared for the unknown to care about it anymore.Cielo seemed to listen. The longer she stayed silent, the weaker her legs became until the phone slipped from her grasp as her knees hit the carpeted floor.“Cielo! Cielo, what’s wrong? What happened? What’s the matter? Don’t scare me!” The manager helped Cielo sit on the couch. He picked up the phone and saw that the call had ended. Looking at the curled Cielo who seemed particularly shaken, he finally looked up the caller.When he saw the it was Kathryn, he immediately called Kathryn’s manager. He knew he could not offend her, but he was friends with her manager after all.After three rings, the other end answered. Like what happened to Cielo, the manager was left speechless and weak from fear after the call ended with a bang.Cielo’s manager and Cielo sat across each other. Their eyes met and they could see the same t
@aaa: She did not win the Best Actress yet, how dare she act so superior?@jjj: I thought she has changed for the better! It looks she was lying low to deliver us this!@fff: She is so disgusting! What brand is it by the way?@uuu replied to #fff: I don’t know. I hope the brand will not be dragged down from evil capitalists like Ashley.@ttt: Get out Ashley!@ccc: Boycott Ashley! Boycott her agency!@ooo replied to @ccc: Hey! Ashely is not under any entertainment company right now. She just established her own studio.@ccc reploed to @ooo: Really? I didn’t know that. Wasn’t hyped that much, I think?@yyy: Boycott @ASHLEY STUDIO!@iii: Boycott @ASHLEY STUDIO!…@aaa: Boycott @ASHLEY STUDIO!Comments like these w
“Why are you so freakingly calm?”Dylan finally could not hold it in when the door of the nanny van closed and the vehicle moved. This was the question that kept on spiraling in his mind. He was picturing out how he would calm Ashley down, but it turned out that he was the one who should be calmed! Did the universe turn in the wrong direction today? Was he dreaming? What?!Ashley, who was typing something in her phone, looked up. She chuckled upon seeing the almost-constipated look on Dylan’s face. Rolling her eyes, she said: “You were used as a gun and you did not even know it.”“Huh? What gun? Who was used? Me?”Ashley proceeded on telling him what she noticed and her theory. Dylan was dumbfounded. He deeply pondered about the industry for a moment and Ashley let him be. It was better this way. With this serving as a lesson for him, Dylan would be more vigi
By the morning, Ashley was woken up by the blasting of her phone. Still groggy, she answered the call with her eyes half-closed.“What?”“Wake up! Wake up! I take it back! You don’t have a vacation even if you won! Get your ass up!”“What’s the fuss all about?” Ashley was seventy percent awake right now. She slowly sat and combed her hair with her fingers.Listening to Dylan’s rumbling from the other side of the call, she got the zest of the situation. It turned out that she bagged a big domestic brand because her winning and her soaring popularity.“Fine. Wait for me at their headquarters, I will just go there myself.” Remembering her escort team, she could only sigh. “They work fast, huh. Send me the copy of the contract.”After the end of the call, Ashley immediately prepared her
At this very moment, many people—young and old—knew of one thing:Ashley won the Best Supporting Actress Award in the prestigious Silver Globes Award for her roles as Cecilia in Unmasked.The moment she went outside the hall, countless screens and digital billboards across the country lit up with this information plastered grandly and proudly. With her picture on it when she wore her beautiful gown for this event.Those who did not know Ashley had known about her. Those who hated Ashley since before her rise to fame were all itching from anger. And the small growing number of fans that belonged to Ashley alone was very excited and crying with joy—only they knew how hard it was to recruit fans for their idol after many black materials!It was not surprising that this phenomenon went viral across various only platforms! While Ashley was still dumbfounded, she did not know how her name was being discussed hotly in the internet!With the number one trending list as #Silver Globes Award 20
Holding the silver trophy in her hand, she stood before many people from the TV & Film Industry. It was time to deliver the speech, something she did not dare to think tonight. After all, there would be other people better than her. Plus, the character of Cecilia was not that versatile to begin with compared to the others. But she still managed to take the glory home this time.Something in her heart was boiling—it was the long-lost passion of being an actress. If before she was doing all of these to gain influence in the public as a part of her grand scheme to take her son away from the Elijah mansion, now, after holding the semi-heavy award, the little girl in her who once dreamed to be a star was finally found again.“Wow…I never really created a speech. I mean, how can I, right? When everyone is so talented and I feel very humbled. But here I am… delivering my first ever speech to you all.” Ashley smiled. Though she could not see clearly since the lighting was focused on her, she
There were three big movies betted by the people to win the Silver Globes Award.The first one was the big production named Reinventing Natalie which was starred by a first class crew under a first class director. The leading role was also played by an A-list actress named Kathryn Bernardo. She was nominated as a Best Actress and if she won, this would be her second win in this award in her acting career which was huge! The movie ‘Reinventing Natalie’ was also nominated in other categories such as Best Director Award, Best Pictures Award, and Best Film Award. This was certainly a movie with the most potential. In fact, according to the online survey, the people in the country believed that Reinventing Natalie would be the biggest winner of this awarding ceremony.The second one, which was ‘Lt. Mckenna” was not as big in terms of production compared to Reinventing Natalia but the theme of the story was historical with a heavy emphasis on the love story, patriotism during the war times,
“Wow! You are really glowing!” Dylan exclaimed in exaggeration as soon as Ashley entered the nanny van. He only noticed it clearly when she was near him, maybe because Ashley was leaning to a clean and minimalist yet elegant look for tonight.The driver was a veteran found by Jaxon and there was another veteran seated on the shotgun seat. Apart from Momo, Dylan, and Ashley, there was no one at the backseat—it was to the minimal. But looking outside the bullet-proofed nanny van especially configured by Jaxon for this night, there were two cars before the van while there were another two tailing behind them. And those people inside those black tinted cars were all sporting the latest technology of armaments and heavy firepower weapons under the sponsorship of the Elijah Family to the military department’s research and development laboratory.Dylan, whose attention was divided by Ashley—his money making cash cow—and the driver’s arms under those fitted suits, finally noticed something.“
The medium-sized bag fully packed with clothes was smacked right onto Jaxon’s face. He did not flinch as he kept staring on her.“You can divorce me. After this, you can divorce me. I will sign the divorce agreement and convince my grandfather that you will have full custody to our son, just please, please…I am begging you, Ashley. Let me protect you and our son.”Ashley’s anger was palpable in her eyes. closing her eyes tightly, she turned around and wiped the tears on her face. She pointed the door and said: “Leave…” Sighing, she continued: “Let me think things through.”A staggering breath of relief escaped from Jaxon’s lips. He closed his eyes for a moment, hiding the turbulent emotions in them as he whispered: “Alright.”As Jaxon left, he entered his study once more.The silence of the study room did not give him comfort. He held the armrests of his wheelchair and stood up with much difficulty. He had to hold the wall and rely on the strength of his feet to support his legs and u