All Too Late

“Ha!” scoffed Kathleen as her scarlet lips curled with cold derision.

Spencer frowned and asked, “Do you or do you not want to proceed?”

Astrid froze in response as she took in his question.

Spencer exclaimed angrily, “Get lost if you’re not continuing with the filming! I’m warning you, don’t bother with all these useless schemes when you’re in my film crew. I don’t buy a single one of them! I don’t care who you have backing you. I’ll personally shame you on the internet if you dare to create a situation where I can’t continue with the filming!”

Astrid’s face stiffened and was stony as she returned Spencer’s gaze. He was clearly different from the other directors she had worked with and certainly commanded significant influence within the entire film crew.

She bit her lip in thought as she recognized she hadn’t achieved her objective and thus had to find a way to prevent herself from being kicked out of the film crew. With that in mind, she didn’t dare to retaliate despite being reprimanded by Spencer at length. She cradled her face and grudgingly accepted that she had taken the slap for nothing.

Later that evening, the film crew had packed up for the day and were ready to leave. Kathleen strode out and immediately caught sight of Samuel.

Why is he here?

His tone was heavy as he said, “Get in the car. I have something extremely important to tell you.”

“I’ve promised Timothy that I would have dinner with him,” replied Kathleen as she gazed at him curiously.

Samuel frowned slightly in response to her sudden announcement.

At that point, Timothy strode over and asked, “Mr. Macari? What brings you here?”

Samuel coolly replied, “I heard that you were planning on treating Kathleen to a meal. Is that right, Mr. Currah?”

“That’s right,” replied Timothy readily with a nod. He continued, “The director told us to familiarize ourselves with one another, or we would only be awkward and distant in the scenes that we acted in together. That would then impact the overall effect that the film brings to people and its success.”

A stark coldness emanated from Samuel’s gaze as he asked, “You wouldn’t mind if I joined you for your meal tonight, would you?”

“Of course not,” replied Timothy, dumbfounded.

other better, I’m sure we can achieve the same outcome

speechless by his comment. Timothy was a little

Get in the car,” instructed Samuel as he

asked, “What are you up

anything in its tracks but didn’t respond

“Seatbelt,” commanded Samuel irately.

speak another word and proceeded to drive off. He followed closely behind Timothy as the latter led them toward the dinner venue he had

he had arranged for a stew for

very well. Even as she sat beside Samuel, she could feel the waves of displeasure cascading off him. However, she made up her mind and decided to ignore him. For the entire meal, she only focused her attention squarely on Timothy and engaged him in

was giving Samuel the cold shoulder. Instead of helping the

beyond measure at how things had developed but

still remember your newcomer performance during your first year of university. Your

my performance?” asked Kathleen in

spread around campus the very moment you reported on the first day of school. I mean, how could it not? They claimed that a peerless beauty had joined our faculty of performing arts, so everyone inevitably knew of

be fair, there were quite

then, everyone knew for a fact that you would be famous eventually. After all, there were several directors who had already picked you out for parts in their productions. It’s

and realized that she had already gotten married to Samuel at that point in time. She sipped from her glass of water before she explained, “My family wanted me to maintain a low profile

look as he said, “It’s a pity. You could have gotten famous

being suggested that Samuel had held her back for several years and in doing so, had affected her career prospects. As he listened on, he reflected and realized he had never gone to visit Kathleen at school during her university days. He didn’t know what her university environment and experience were like either. He had only picked up from the occasional

all these on

the bill. However, Samuel reacted faster

the counter hesitated for a moment but

I would be treating for this

letting me hear so much about Kate and her university days. This is nothing more than my way of showing

at him and couldn’t help but wonder

“If that’s the case, I’ll take you up on your kind offer. Let me

home? Do you want her to appear on the headlines the next day?” asked Samuel aggressively. He continued, “Don’t you know just

Macari, there’s nothing going on between Kate and me. We’re innocent,”

think the fans out there would believe that?” demanded Samuel as he grabbed Kathleen’s wrist. He continued, “She doesn’t need you to send her home. Also, I feel that both of your acting skills are excellent. In view of that, there’s no need to improve your relationship off the stage any further. I’m sure