“I don’t quite understand what you mean, Mr. Golding. What has displeased you?” he asked, bewildered, after fumbling for his voice.

Evander scoffed with a stony glare. “You’re the director. What good are you to me if you have to ask my opinion on such a trivial matter?”

“Yes, I should not have done that.”

Gordon shuddered. What rotten luck for me to have to deal with this loose cannon that is Evander.

“Please enlighten me, Mr. Golding.”

“The actor is not a right fit. Any additional effort to prove otherwise is futile,” Evander said casually as he pointed at Angeline.

An assistant wrapped a towel around her shoulders as soon as she came ashore, but she still shivered.

When she overheard Evander, her gaze stiffened, and her lips pursed.

Sure enough, there’s an ulterior motive to his visit.

Stunned, Gordon wondered if he had misheard. “Are you sure, Mr. Golding?”

As soon as he raised the question, Evander shot him a glare so severe that Gordon’s back grew damp with cold sweat.

Then, he gazed at Angeline with a conflicted look and wondered how he should begin.

“I will reshoot the scene if you’re unhappy with it, Mr. Golding.” Angeline spoke up bravely at that moment. Her voice was hoarse from the time spent underwater. “I don’t have a problem with that, as it’s part of the job.”

When she stood up, the towel slipped off her fair and smooth skin. She stalked back toward the pool with a scowl.

If Evander is being difficult on purpose, I’m not going to let him take it out on the others.

of relief and quickly ordered one of the crew members to

a seat, Mr. Golding,” he said with

with a grunt and sat at the frontmost spot of the pool like

his impassive face and felt an invisible force compelling her to obey,

could not go against Evander. Silently enduring her fate, she listened for Gordon’s

underwater was executed to perfection. Even the smile she flashed upon turning back

“Cut!”

Evander gingerly,

you satisfied?” Evander answered with a question. His displeasure was

him. Despite his experience directing many television shows, he simply could not

be a personal grudge for him to be this picky, and it’s obvious that they’re unhappy from the way he made Angeline get underwater again

no longer cared about Angeline’s comfort, Gordon did not hold back. With a scowl, he ordered, “We’ll do another take, Angeline. Take it seriously this time. Mr. Golding is

right, got it,” Angeline answered dully,

scene even though she instinctively knew

a row. Angeline had swallowed so much water that her smile was frozen on

numb from the cold, she did

anger, she thought herself spared any feelings of indebtedness if he could be appeased this

sight of Angeline submerging herself repeatedly without raising any objections did not please Evander. Instead, he

water. She tucked her hair behind her ears and ran her tongue around

Evander caught sight of it and felt himself

of late. I

the take

Gordon already, by that point,

had grown to a small pile. Despite that, she

if she catches a cold from being underwater

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