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.

coldly, “Since the goal is for the two of you to know each other better, I’m sure we can achieve the same outcome even with a third party

rendered utterly speechless by his comment. Timothy was a little taken

in the car,” instructed Samuel as he pulled Kathleen

“What are you

of freezing anything in its tracks but didn’t respond to her query. Instead,

“Seatbelt,” commanded Samuel irately.

but had no choice but to comply and put on her seatbelt. Samuel didn’t speak another word and proceeded to

he had arranged for a stew for sharing.

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

picked up on the fact that Kathleen was giving Samuel the cold shoulder. Instead of helping the latter out,

had barely touched his fork, let alone pick it up. He was infuriated beyond measure at how things

during your first year of university. Your

You actually saw my

mean, how could it not? They claimed that a peerless beauty had joined our faculty of performing arts, so everyone inevitably knew

“To be fair, there were quite a

for a fact that you would be famous eventually. After all, there were several directors who had already picked you out for parts in

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 at the time. That’s why I ultimately didn’t

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

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 whisper here and there

all these on

foot the bill. However, Samuel

staff at the counter hesitated for a moment but finally accepted the card

for this meal?” asked Timothy

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

at him and couldn’t help but wonder why he was behaving so

take you up on your kind offer. Let

the next day?” asked

nothing going on between Kate and me. We’re innocent,” stated Timothy

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