Chapter 105

Roxanne’s face was swollen from the slap, and her mouth was split at the corners, with blood filling; her teeth felt like they were on the brink of falling out.

After the scene ended, she glared at Quintessa with venomous eyes and growled, “Just you wait.”

Roxanne wanted to spit out a few harsh words, but the pain was too much, and just mouthing those few words nearly brought her to tears.

She hurried off with her agent to the hospital, frightened that the blow might have disfigured her beautiful

face.

Director Fitch wasn’t fond of Roxanne, to begin with. Even knowing that Quintessa had hit her on purpose, he still turned a blind eye and wanted to keep filming. Hollywood was always a cutthroat place.

Manny handed Quintessa a thermos, “Quinn, you holding up okay?”

her hand, “I’m fine, just a bit of

whispering, “You were fierce.”

flexed her right

far from over; in fact, it was

battlefield, and coming out on top was never easy.

come for Roxanne, she was the least

King, the famous Jonathan Winters, a 36–year–old cinema star who had taken a hiatus from the silver screen to return to television.

the epitome of handsome and sophisticated charm; his features were sharp and her eyes were a deep, brooding pool. His popularity with the audience was undeniable; with a slew of international awards under

rife, and though the media had spent over a decade trying to unearth his background, they

reputation of being one of the nicest stars around. But

to catch his eye, not one had

sweet nothings followed by the drawing of curtains and lying

Jonathan suddenly asked, “Was it

he spoke, it was as if he were reciting poetry, which

he was referring to, Quintessa raised an eyebrow, “Yeah, it was intentional. Got a problem with that? If you

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