Laura’s POV 114
“Ms. Laura, why are you sitting here alone!”
Willow ran over to me and gripped my hand tightly.
My suppressed emotions seem to have suddenly found a release, I also hold her hand tightly, tears involuntarily snapping onto the back of my hand.
“Ms. Laura, don’t cry!” She panicked and wiped my tears, “I’ve heard … all about a crappy role, what’s the big deal! Besides, it’s just a stage play, do you really think you’ll become famous overnight just by acting in this?”
I looked at her gratefully, but didn’t even have the strength to fake a smile.
“I do feel a little sad.” I said, “This is the least recognized I’ve ever been.”
“What’s wrong with that? You’ll always be the number one heroine in my heart!”
“Thank you Willow,” I said softly, “I’m sorry I let you down, right? Or I informed you to come over to see me perform today, and it turns out …”
“Don’t say that!” She wrapped her arms around my neck and sat down next to me, “I sometimes talk to my mom on the phone and talk about videos, and she often talks about what she used to do. In fact, in this circle, it’s not uncommon for people to change temporarily. Even my mom, I don’t know how many times she was temporarily replaced when she wasn’t famous back then!”
“Yes,” I lamented, “there’s nothing easy in the world.”
In the adult world, there’s never an easy word.
“But Ms. Laura, I know who messed up this time.”
Willow bites her lip lightly, her snowy eyes flashing conclusively.
“Screwed up?”
“Yeah! How else do you think it’s possible to make a sudden change?”
“Willow, this …”
“It’s Fryday!” she said the name with hatred.
My heart shook.
Fryday? The … Fryday that I ran into at the office that morning?
She gave me a hard stare, so it really didn’t seem to be unprovoked.
But I still can’t believe it, I’ve barely met her, let alone any kind of enmity, why would she do this?
“Ms. Laura, I’m one hundred percent sure,” Willow said in a single word, “that Fryday is the one who pulled the strings on this one! Do you know who the little actor who replaced you is? It’s a former classmate of Fryday’s who never made it big, and only recently signed to The Curry Group for The Curry Group’s acting training.”
“Heh,” she sneered, “Who does she think she is when she makes such a big deal out of her arrival? Thinks Fryday is her backer? That can be really wrong … Fryday and can rely on who? Still not relying on that shameless vigor to seduce my father!”
“Willow!”I hastily put up my index finger on my lips, signaling her to shut up.
This is, after all, in the company, there are many people, and the walls have ears, in case anyone hears it and passes it on, they won’t be able to say that I’ve been replaced, and that my heart is unbalanced, and I’m here to whine about it?
“Okay, I won’t say it.” Willow was very understanding, “But Ms. Laura, this beam I have with Fryday is completely knotted! Don’t worry, I’ll definitely get this debt back with interest from her.”
“Don’t …”
“It’s not just for you.” Her small face was grim, “It’s more for myself. Heh, want to be my stepmother? I’ll show her that we, The Denoble Family, aren’t so easy to get through the door!”
I looked at her dumbfounded for a long moment and let out a giggle.
“Any idea who you look like?” I teased her, “You don’t look like your father’s daughter, you look more like a mother-in-law who gives her new daughter-in-law a hard time!”
“Hey!” Her eyes glared up, “Big sister, I’m looking out for you!”
“I know, I know.” I said in a loud voice, embracing her in a hug, “I’m really especially thankful to the heavens for how I met such a good little sister like you!”
“But don’t you dare fight for me.” I looked at her, “In this circle, more is better than less. Besides, I think this time should just be a coincidence, I’ve never offended Fryday, she won’t purposely have a hard time with me.”
Willow wanted to say something else, but I stopped her.
Maybe I’m always slow when it comes to relationships.
I thought I hadn’t offended anyone, but I didn’t know that I had inadvertently offended people completely and thoroughly a long time ago.
I didn’t care about the role change, and the stage show didn’t make much of a difference.
I went to the company as usual, classes, training and rehearsals. A few teachers secretly praised me for my good psychological quality, especially the character teacher, who seemed to feel particularly guilty about me after the last incident, and gave me more opportunities in the usual rehearsals, which I benefited greatly.
Until that day, I heard a few colleagues chatting about Fryday during class.
“Did you see the news, Fryday’s wedding has been delayed!”
“Supposedly it’s President Rafael’s idea.”
“I don’t think President Rafael has any intention to marry her! It’s her own wishful thinking.”
“That’s right. How can it be so easy to get into the mansion? Moreover, there is a difficult Qianjin … in this mansion.”
I was shocked, I could not help but connect all the things in my mind. Fryday’s sinister eyes, to the later temporary change of roles, and Willow’s words …
For a moment my mind was in turmoil.
After thinking about it, I vaguely feel that maybe Fryday and I have had a misunderstanding for a long time, just I have been I didn’t realize it. And this time happens to be in Willow left home that time, Rafael asked me to meet, gave me his private number.
Women’s jealousy, it really is the worst.
I have nothing to do with Rafael, but because of this misunderstanding, I buried a good opportunity to make a name for myself, it’s really not worth it.
That day I was dizzy, and most of the students in the acting class were not in the mood to attend class, they were all enthusiastically discussing the news of Fryday’s wedding postponement.
I looked at the class schedule, the afternoon was free time, I simply went to the underground garage to get my car and go home, wanting to spend more time with Sunny.
However, when the car was halfway down the road, the steering wheel suddenly became uncontrollable, the wheels began to skid, and the body flipped to the side … I was in a cold sweat, my soul was almost scared out of my body, and my hands and feet were scrambling wildly to steer and step on the brakes ….
Immediately after the “boom” sound, I feel this huge sound from the bottom of the car. My mind was blank, the body suddenly popped up, flipped in the air, my whole body seems to be in a weightless state, in addition to their own screams is the sound of glass and metal impact rupture …
Finally, my eyes black, no consciousness.
When I woke up, the left thigh to calf side of the hot tearing pain. Subconsciously move the body, the bones of the whole body are like being pressed by a wheel, especially the head, it is more like it is going to split in half.
My mouth was dry, and only after half a day’s effort did a muddy grunt come out of my throat, “What’s wrong with me …?”
“You’re awake?” A nurse off to the side was observing my IV.
She leaned over and smiled, whispering, “You were in a car accident, but it’s nothing serious, just a flesh wound, don’t worry.”
Car accident? I had a splitting headache, the car accident existed like a nightmare in my memory.
“Do you want me to go get your husband?” The nurse asked.
“Who?”
“Your husband. He’s been taking care of you day and night for the past two days when you were in a coma. Right now he’s outside, probably so tired he leaned back in the hallway chair and fell asleep.”
I froze when suddenly the door opened, only to see Cameron walk in from outside.
He had surprisingly lost weight, his cheeks were sunken, his eyes were dark underneath, his beard was unshaven, and his whole body looked a little scruffy.
However, those eyes were still deep and determined, and the black and white eyes contained complex emotions.
For the first time in such a long time, he appeared in front of me.
I moved my lips, but couldn’t say a word.
He signaled the nurse to go out, and only the two of us were left in the ward. He slowly walked over to me, sat down next to my bed, gently held my hand, pressed the back of my hand against his face, and let out a long sigh of relief.
I wanted to pull my hand back, but I didn’t even have the strength to do so, so I had to let him hold it. I glanced at him, and he was looking at me too, suddenly becoming a mischievous older boy again, and gave me a mischievous heave.
“It’s actually kind of nice that you’re hurt.” He tickled the corners of his mouth, “It’s when you’re most obedient, lying obediently on the bed, not resisting or struggling, not even having the strength to fight with me. How nice!”
“Nervous.” I summoned all my strength and cursed in a low voice.
The smile at the corners of his mouth faded, and there was a look of infinite pity in his eyes after the robbery. “Laura,” he said slowly, his voice low, “you … almost scared me to death.”
These words violently poked somewhere in the bottom of my heart.
I don’t know if it was because of the pain or something else, but I couldn’t help the tears from falling down.
“You still care about my death?” I whispered, “Queenie seems to need you more than I do.”
He paused and stopped talking.
That was what was particularly annoying about him, his silence no matter what. Silent silent silent, never offering to explain anything. Even when he bullied me, he didn’t say a word.
I gave him a look, “Get out, I don’t want to see you here.”
He, however, didn’t hear me as if he hadn’t, pouring me a glass of water and dabbing my lips with a cotton swab. “There are straws in the drawer, drink from them later.”
“You’re out.”
“You’ve been in a coma for three days, you haven’t eaten in those three days, you’re hungry now, aren’t you?”
“Cameron, can’t you understand me?”
“I’m going to get you food.”
“Cameron!” I couldn’t hold back and yelled.
The cry shook the nerves throughout my body, and my limbs ached like crazy.
“Hiss …” I couldn’t help but suck in a breath of cold air.
“No movement!” He pressed down on my shoulder.
Those eyes were as firm and powerful as before, and the brutal and domineering aura of his body didn’t fade with time, but instead grew stronger over time.
“Alright, neither of you two move!” A bright voice came from outside the door, “The food is here!”
It was Gina.
She came through the door with a smile on her face, carrying a lunch box in her hand and setting it on my bedside table.
“Sick meal, not so good. Make do with what you’ve got!”
She pulls out her stethoscope, checks me over briefly again, looks at the IV, and smiles softly at me, “Laura, do you know you scared the hell out of our Cameron this time? He almost turned Jerez State over in a fit of rage …”
“Ahem …” Cameron blushed and coughed heavily from the sidelines.
Gina smiled with extraordinarily deep meaning.
However the atmosphere was suddenly a little awkward.
Gina then pushed Cameron, “Can’t bear to see your Laura eat this clear soupy sick meal? Or why don’t you just go home and make something delicious and send it to her!”
Cameron listened to her, grabbed his jacket and headed out the door.
Gina put a cushion behind me and carefully helped me sit up, placing the winter melon soup from the lunch box on the small table in front of me.
“Your diet shouldn’t be greasy right now; a light soup is best. I let Cameron back in on purpose to sidetrack him. If he does bring any crab roasted oats, you’re not allowed to eat them either, do you hear me?”
I laughed lightly and nodded. “The winter melon soup tastes good.”
“What kind of soup would Cameron make you?”
“I don’t care!” I blushed.
Gina grinned, “Still not forgiving people?”
I don’t know what to say. After a long moment of silence, she smiled bitterly, “What’s the point if I forgive or not? Forgiveness doesn’t exist between me and him because we weren’t supposed to have this kind of relationship in the first place. I am his sister, if he really reconnects with his ex-wife, I should give my blessing …”
“That’s a generous thing to say.” Gina bristled, “I hope it’s not pretend.”
My heart trembled fiercely, “Not pretending … I really mean it! In fact, this time Queenie’s appearance, but gave me a wake-up call, perhaps even the heavens can not see us like this against the reason of heaven … Heh, a sister wants to elope with her brother? Great treason!”
“Heh, so you think this way? Then Cameron has really been working for nothing these past few days.”
I was silent.
Gina continued, “These days are all about him guarding you in the hospital … You were inside for the surgery, and he was outside wiping his tears. Do you know, in all the time we’ve known each other, this is the first time I’ve seen Cameron cry. A big man, crying more than a child!”
“What?” I was shocked.
“Don’t get angry with him!” Gina patted the back of my hand and laughed, “Anyway, the Cameron I’ve seen over the past few days has been nothing short of a psycho! He cried when you were in the operating room, he laughed when you were out of danger, and then afterward, he went into a rage and used all of his connections to thoroughly investigate the cause of your car accident … That’s why I just said that Cameron made such a scene that he almost turned Jerez State upside down!”
I couldn’t say a word, there was a sweet taste in the back of my throat, and the corners of my mouth couldn’t help but turn upwards, and it took me a lot of effort to keep it down.
“He met with Queenie, and it was Queenie who threatened him.” Gina looked at me.
“Cameron knows that you’re bothered by your relationship, so he’s been trying to find ways to keep it a secret. But somehow Queenie found out … and she used it to threaten Cameron with exposing your relationship if he didn’t meet with her.”
“Besides Cameron was meeting with her for nothing else, she was just asking Cameron for money.”
My ears buzzed.
“Gina,” I whispered, “Can’t he explain to me just this little thing? I hate it when he doesn’t say anything and I don’t know anything! With him I’m always kept in the dark.”
“Laura,” Gina sighed, “Cameron isn’t one to explain himself. Besides, he’s got a lot on his plate, and the perils of the mall are sometimes hard for you to imagine. And … even if he explains to you, will you listen?”
I lowered my head, in my heart, I actually don’t have any complaints against him anymore, it’s just that there’s always a kind of superstition at work, as long as I’m with him, disaster will come and we’ll be punished by the heavens.
Gina laughed softly, “Don’t worry too much, your own happiness is the most important thing. And the prerequisite for being happy on your own is to be with the one who can make you happy, right?”