A couple of hours later, as a token of gratitude for her friend's help, Ivy promised to buy her a meal. She changed her comfortable get up into a long forest green dress paired with black strappy stiletto heels and then led Deborah out of her half-tidied house.
It was already late afternoon but the two of them didn't remove their shades and long coat until they secured a table at the second floor of Blue Feathers, a luxurious restaurant within Central Alina half an hour drive away from her new place.
"I want all their dishes priced more than 10,000 credits each! And red wine too! The most expensive one! No, I don't want a single bottle. I want ten! You're not allowed to say no!"
However, before the demanding blonde could even finish speaking, Ivy had already said their orders to the waiter. And although all the said courses were indeed above Deborah's quoted price, she only ordered three dishes and a fairly known brand of red wine.
"Hey, I said all!"
The sky was already dark when the two women finally walked out of the blue sea motif restaurant.After dropping Deborah off to the condo building where she was currently renting a unit, the black-haired actress drove her car to another condo located in Northern Alina. While getting off, she glanced at the phone in her hand, her lips curling into a smirk as she read the message she received a couple of hours ago, before Deborah's arrival in her apartment.'Meet me, or else, I'll tell the world your secret, that you, the new phenomenal star had an affair with a married man before.'With her long black coat draped over her exposed shoulders and her dark shades put on, she went into the elevator, joining the small crowd inside.She got off at the fifteenth floor, marching towards the left in her black strappy high heels, her steps making faint click-clack sounds against the floor.Ivy stopped in front of a door to her right side. After punching a few n
When Ivy arrived at Starlight's company building, it was still very early, only a minute or two past 9 am. This meant she came right after the main entrance was opened and the office hours started.To her surprise though, there were already a lot of people in the halls and lobby. In fact, when she dropped by the restroom to check her makeup, she even saw one of her acquaintances, surrounded by her group of friends. For some reason, they ignored her today instead of acknowledging her presence through their glaring eyes.She was able to inspect herself on the huge mirror before the sink peacefully and had even managed to eavesdrop on whatever had occupied the famous actress Lina Haze. Her eyes narrowed a bit when she heard an interesting piece of information.She called out to her system AI.'Hey, Mr. Damnable Devil. Why didn't you tell me that this pretentious b*tch who's always trying to act high and mighty in my presence is actually living in that condo
Ivy, thanks for the hard work."After pulling the car door closed, the actress asked, "Where do we go next? Omega Studio?"Stepping on the gas to drive the car back to the lane, Miss Cora answered, "Ivy, the case is, the CEO's assistant phoned me while you are at the set, informing me that there will be a delay in the shooting of the advertisement. Our CEO has called a sudden meeting with all the subsidiaries of the Silvers. The Jewelry branch which contracted Omega studio is one of them. Actually, you are also asked to return.""The CEO?"Ivy's face showed great disbelief as though what she heard was very shocking. The next second though, a very wide smile appeared on it, reminding the older woman of a child promised by her parents to go to an amusement park. "I-I am asked to attend it? O-or to see her? Y-you sure it's really me?"The extreme happiness emanating from the expression and voice of the beautiful black-haired woman stunne
"Why are you here?"Mild irritation crept up in Ivy's face as she glared at the young man who appeared beside a black-haired hazel-eyed beautiful woman.It was in the hallway leading to Starlight's CEO's office which was currently owned by Agatha Silver, well-known princess of the Silver Corp and also the CEO and the largest shareholder of Starlight Entertainment.The young man had dressed quite smartly in a sky blue button up dress shirt underneath his creamy coffee colored knitted blazer. He paired it with a dark blue denim and white sports shoes though, unfortunately killing the sophisticated impression of his upper garment. His looks which had matured incredibly in the past three years, of course, salvaged the get-up, but unfortunately, in Ivy's eyes, he was still no different from a buffoon.Without stopping his strides, he boredly replied, "You're asking why I have to be here? Beats me, I dunno. Why don't you redirect your question to whoever called
The past three years had been more than enough for innumerable changes to happen. It had been a long period of time. And Eithan honestly sometimes didn't know how to describe how he survived this span of time.He was already past the point of thinking that he had become a villainous man. Agatha Moore, now Agatha Silver, was correct. It seemed as long as one was related to the immoral system, one way or another, he would surely fall into darkness.Ivy Adalio, his colleague and co-host, was also correct. While falling into the abyss, he indeed used the industry as his landing point, doing things unimaginably daring for the former him who probably would not even consider hurting a rat.'No used thinking about it now.'An amused chuckle escaped out of his lips as he beheld Ivy's disappointed expression after they came out of the office. The energetically murderous woman turned very listless due to her expectations being betrayed.
The young man indifferently opened his interface, reading his own stats as he replied, 'I didn't ask for any reward for that. In the first place, why did she even get angry?'He rolled his eyes and started driving to where he would meet up with an acquaintance. After shaking off the unnecessary thoughts in his head, he asked the system,'I didn't know that Baron's already back to Alina. What did he want help with this time? Another murder case?'With his brows furrowed, he told himself, 'Let's hope it's not something done by that woman's witchy clone. Otherwise, I can only say my sorry and condolences to them.'"..."'It's really that witch's work, damn it.'The young man now suspiciously wrapped up in an all-black get-up cursed as he took a glimpse at the pictures shown to him by his older acquaintance, Baron Gomez.The two met up in a fairly unpopulated cafe near the Western Alina Police Station, Friendlies, a humble business now ne
Just as expected, to ensure his participation, a call from Sir Dylan, the current chief secretary of Agatha Silver, came before nightfall, not taking 'no' from him as an answer.Frowning badly, he stared at the call button which had already turned red. The call timer which stopped at 1:03 was so much of an eyesore.'The sorrow of being a contracted moneybag.' He mused, shaking his head as he closed the door to the driver's seat of the company-lent car.He pocketed the phone in his jacket and strode towards the elevator of the underground parking lot. It was in the condominium at Eastern Alina, the opposite side of where he used to live in the city three years ago.'...' Eithan was speechless.If he could only slap it, he would have done so for a thousand times. The useless thing... warning him right after he opened the door and saw a pair of deep maroon high heels neatly staying at the bottom of the shoe rack there.Why didn't it do so at le
It's been ten minutes since the young man gave him a scowl but still fetch his laptop to work on the person she requested information.It's been that long since she began doing what she had always been doing whenever they were together and he was working on something. Watching him.It was because she couldn't understand the codes and numbers flying here and there on the screen. She only understood that numbers and letters could actually form a tsunami there and dizzy people up to death.For example, he saw him typing something like [cin>>num; if(num>10 && num<"what a="" mess!!";="" }="" else="" {=""><"grrrr..!!"; }]="" which="" she="" didn't="" even="" how="" to="" rationalize.="" but="" then,="" in="" a="" blink="" of="" an="" eye,="" it="" went="" to="" the="" left="" tab="" where="" it="" vanished="" after="" a="" second.="" another="" line="" of="" inexplicable="" combinations="" of="" letters="" and="" numbers="" followed="" and=""