A Film Queen
Chapter 287
A Film Queen of Two Worlds
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Chapter 287 Twists of Fate
Amid the crowd’s buzz, Stephanie went to Milly, grinning, and asked, “Milly, would you like to come to my coming–of–age party?”
Milly’s eyebrow quirked up. puzzled over Stephanie’s move.
What was the deal with inviting folks to the Burnett digs? Milly figured, even if Stephanie had stashed her stuff, could she honestly expect Jordan and Grandpa to play along and act clueless about her?
Before Milly could get a word out, someone in the vicinity started poking fun, “Stephanie, why are you bothering with her invite? Didn’t she just give you a hard time?”
“Seriously, someone as nasty as her shouldn’t even step in your place. She’ll never be on your level, ever.”
“Exactly, just brush her off.”
Following the buttering up, the crowd gradually huddled around Stephanie, leaving her encircled, and drifted away.
At last, they cleared out!
Milly sighed in relief, glad to drop the pretence of a grin.
Yet, she couldn’t shake off her curiosity as everyone grouped around Stephanie for a chat. Meanwhile, Lucius was just there, all stone–faced, not bothering to look their way.
Milly blinked, “You’re not heading over?”
Lucius glanced down at her. “You want me to go over?”
Milly was all for it initially, but then, she caught a whiff of his cold indifference, making her freeze.
“Uh…” a thought swiftly ran through his mind. “We’re all mates here, should be backing each other up. If you don’t mingle, wouldn’t that come off as standoffish?”
Lucius kept his poker face, “Then tag along”
go over
for now.”
“Well, I also…”
gotta go!”
with Lucius, his expression turning sour on
“Because, uh…”
it safe and stick to the typical story are, could she? Spill that, and she wouldn’t last a day.
Hold up-
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up, and thrive together. Since I’ve got our classmate peeved, as my bud, you should
was genuinely thankful for the first time for having the ‘we’re just mates‘ card to play.
a loss for words now, right?
he’d need to leave right away to be there for Stephanie. But if he kept about who he was for now, that would be even
exactly what I’m hoping for.
jumped up in surprise, her smile reaching her eyes which then locked
was deep, old, worn, unwavering, almost
to capture them fully.
gaze sent a shiver of unease through
say more, he had already turned away, striding towards
the afternoon training session, and since Lucius went off to find Stephanie, he’s
in her head, but she gets the vibe that
kind of tough to figure out a guy who acts all aloof and tough on the
as long as he’s not sticking too
in the mountains, she figured it was probably just a small hill. But when she got there,
mountains and woods, she could have thought she was in an
scene was pretty cool too, offering a refreshing change of
scenery.
their group being small, they got to lead everyone. Stephanie was on her own mission, constantly nagging Lucius, while Xavier tagged along, making sure Stephanie stayed out of
her.
the lead, comfortably
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