All Too Late

Kathleen’s face was flushed red. “It’s all in the past. Why are you bringing it up now?”

Samuel was breathing hard. “I thought about it suddenly. I saw you taking a photo with Timothy, and—”

“And what?” Kathleen was baffled.

“I was jealous. Kathleen, I was so jealous then.” There was a tinge of irony in his eyes.

Kathleen looked grim. “So what if you’re jealous? Why are you telling me this?”

Do you expect me to give you some sugar to neutralize the sour taste in your mouth?

“This means that back then, I’ve already fallen for you.” Samuel’s face turned a little red as he said that.

Kathleen was stunned.

What is he talking about?

When Samuel saw her startled look, he became indignant. “What’s so shocking about it?”

Kathleen nodded. “It’s shocking indeed.”

Samuel sat down. “Perhaps, I’ve fallen in love with you long ago. I just didn’t realize it.”

His feelings for Nicolette had blinded him.

Kathleen managed a rueful smile. “Samuel, it’s all over. Stop dwelling on the past. We’re family now. I’m not troubled by it at all, why should you?”

Although Kathleen was a little surprised by Samuel’s confession, she was not overly shocked and touched.

She just felt that destiny was often cruel.

Regardless, they had already missed each other.

They could never regain what they had once it was lost.

That was Samuel and Kathleen’s destiny.

“Samuel, I’m sorry. No matter what you say now, I don’t feel anything for you. I really don’t love you anymore.” Kathleen gazed steadily into Samuel’s face.

Samuel’s face was drained of color, overwhelmed with a sense of powerlessness.

“I know. You don’t have to repeat it so many times. I just want to tell you how I feel.”

Kathleen looked at him serenely. “I’m going to start filming now.”

Samuel nodded.

hoping to catch a

wished that she could look shocked, moved,

truth, he hoped she

seemed to be telling him that they

and saw everyone

beckoned her to join them. “We’re missing the female lead. The director was going to ask

not be in the group photo?” Kathleen jested with

easy. We can always photoshop,”

Kathleen smiled in amusement.

Timothy and Kathleen were the lead characters,

them together as he walked out of the lounge, he felt a sharp pain in his

filming of Assassin started

and Kathleen were acting in their first

get to know each other first, so

after she had read the script for the first day of filming. “I recall that the script we discussed in Samuel’s office was not the same. Where happened to the

It’s not appropriate to include it in the scene. This is a situation where lives are at stake. An intimate scene will ruin the mood,”

Kathleen was rendered speechless.

days. We need to fire up their imagination. Otherwise, they won’t

Kathleen’s mouth twitched.

team has the final say about how the movie unfolds. I’m a professional scriptwriter. Don’t you

minute. “Are you sure it’s not Samuel’s idea to

doesn’t have

industry would know that the investor had the biggest say on how the movie

after all, the ones who were forking out large sums of

that it was futile to protest, Kathleen

script and left to

finally able to breathe a sigh

an almost flawless

Spencer was very pleased.

the next scene

“The director noticed that we seem rather unfamiliar with each other. Why don’t we have dinner together tonight to build a better

“Good idea.” Kathleen nodded.

into his lounge to

Kathleen. “Kate, I’ll

They had prepared a lounge room for every

led Kathleen to the her

looked at it in shock.

now that this will be your lounge. I heard it’s

Kathleen pursed her lips.

have given her the best

than Timothy’s. You’re the first actress to win an Academy Award. No one else in this country has

Kathleen sighed.