You Are Mine (English)

Chapter 70: Chapter 70: She Almost Lost Control

Edie stiffened, his dark eyes flashing to her face. Her heart is beating rapidly with excitement. His scent and heat, the warmth of his magic, the heavy sensations of being so close to him, she almost lost control.

"Well?" he said, his voice was so deep and cold.

Immediately her face was flushed with embarrassment. She looked away to avoid any contact with his eyes, "Don’t get so close to me, I am getting hot." Stuart pinched her lower jaw and raised it gently.

"Why did you not want to be seen with me?"

He approached her so closely, and their proximity seemed too intimate. Edie lost the ability to think. His troubled gaze came back to her face, pacing from her eyes to her lips.

"I.....I"

"Edie" Someone was calling her name. She pushed him away immediately. She turned around and saw Rhoda Hayes staring at them with her big eyes.

Edie felt relieved, and it was her assistant. She tried to cover it up by pretending to fix her hair, "Rhoda, what’s the matter?" Rhonda was so surprised, and she never expected to walk in and see Edie with a man.

She suspiciously glanced at the man from the corners of her eyes. Stuart’s lethal stare felt painful and piercing. Then she realized that it was Mr. Yates, the man she met this afternoon. Mr. Yates and Edie, what kind of relationship do they have?

Shocked, Rhoda stammered over her words, "Edie, time for your play. The director asked me to come and get you."

"All right. I will be right there." ƒrēewebnovel.com

"You haven’t explained to me." You could hear the anger in his voice.

"I.....I will explain as soon as I am finished, okay?" She also wanted to know why he came here so suddenly.

Her red lips were parted. He wanted to kiss her, and he was struggling to control himself, "All right."

Edie ran towards the door immediately, worried that Stuart might change his decision.

As they left the room, Rhonda asked, "Edie, was that Mr. Yates? Why were you in there with him?"

"Well, it is kind of complicated."

She didn’t know where to begin and didn’t know whether to tell her the truth. Rhoda became very nervous, "What if those reporters find out about this? Now you have an opportunity to become popular or you could get yourself into a mess, it could ruin your career."

She was right, but there was so much more to it. There was no way she could explain with just a few words. Edie changed the topic, "Hurry up. We need to get there right away. I will tell you everything after we are done filming."

When they arrived, the director looked a little angry, "Edie, where the hell have you been? I didn’t see you when Mr. Yates arrived. Both you and Queenie were not there. That was very embarrassing."

Edie murmured apologetically, "My apologies, Mr. Lane. My stomach was very upset." Zoe was sitting in the chair, listening to the whole conversation. She wanted so much to say something but held back her words.

It was the scene of Abbey Sanchez and Lola Salazar. Susan had just found out that the woman who caused the conflict between Hank and Abbey was Lola. As soon as the actresses were ready, the director said ’action’ and the performance started,

Susan was very pale as she stared at Lola. She spoke with her hands quite slowly, as if she were sparing no effort in expressing her feelings. "It was you that used my phone to ask Abbey to go to the store, right?"

Lola finally told her the truth, "Yes, it was me."

"It was also you that had Abbey raped."

"Yes."

Tears started to fall from Susan’s eyes. She was struggling with the answer. "Why would you do this? I thought we were best friends. Have I ever hurt you?"

Lola laughed scornfully at her questions, "Friends? Susan, you are so naive. If you weren’t the daughter of the mayor, you would be nothing to me. Ten years ago, when you came to Wilson’s, you were poor and pathetic. No one would even look at you?"

Recalling those painful memories from the past, Susan trembled. She couldn’t say a word out.

"You never realized your limitations. You tried to compete for Hank. You are disabled. Abbey was born from a poor family, and neither one of you is a match for Hank. Only me, I am the perfect one for him. You kept getting in the way, so I had no choice but to try and make you both disappear."

Susan tried to control her tears, but they suddenly came streaming down her face. Remembering all that she went through and it was because of Lola. She was a fake.

Susan was shaking, "I will stop, I will not take him from you, but you have to promise me that you won’t hurt Abbey again."

Lola stared at her with evilness in her eyes, "You are not qualified enough to say this. Susan, accept the reality. No one cares about how you feel or what you want. You are no more than a burden."

"That’s a wrap," Seeing this great performance, and the director was quite satisfied. Edie sat down and took a sip of water. Looking at Zoe, Edie said in a low voice, "Perhaps this was one of her best performances. After all, she is playing herself."

Later on in the afternoon, it was another conflicting scene between Susan and Lola. It went quite smoothly. Zoe played her part well, as to be expected. After finishing, even the director praised her. "You did quite a good job today. You really looked like a vicious woman."

It was rare for the director to say anything to her. Pleased with what he said, "You have overpraised me. I can’t thank you enough for being so patient with me. As well as Miss Lara’s cooperation, although her performance seemed a little dull."

What? This had nothing to do with her. Edie was so sick of her, but she still kept smiling, "Miss Anna is too modest. This role was designed for you. It seemed as though you were playing yourself. I believe, without me, you could still have done it quite well."