Divorce Anxiety

“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.

other better, I’m sure we can achieve the same outcome even with a third

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

Get in the car,” instructed Samuel as he pulled Kathleen in along with

asked, “What are you up to,

tracks but didn’t respond to her query. Instead, he merely put on his seatbelt. She glanced at him from the side and began,

“Seatbelt,” commanded Samuel irately.

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

made arrangements for their dinner. Furthermore, he had arranged for a stew for

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 engaged

the cold shoulder. Instead of helping the latter out, he conversely began to engage with

Samuel had barely touched his fork, let alone pick it up. He was infuriated beyond measure at how things had developed but also knew that he didn’t have the

year of university. Your performance was a contemporary dance that truly astounded the audience,” recalled Timothy

You actually saw my performance?” asked

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

embarrassed and commented shyly, “To be fair, there were quite a few gorgeous ladies

fact that you would be famous eventually. After all, there were several directors who had already picked you out for parts in their productions. It’s just that no one expected you would stop coming to school once the mid-year

momentarily dumbfounded. She thought back and realized that she had already gotten married to Samuel at that point in time. She sipped from her glass of water before

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

visit Kathleen at school during her university days. He didn’t know what her university environment

Timothy’s saying all these on

the counter to foot the bill. However, Samuel reacted faster and beat him to it. He

hesitated for a moment but finally accepted the

agree that I would be treating for this meal?” asked Timothy as he stared

university days. This is nothing more

but wonder why he was behaving

the case, I’ll take you up on your kind offer. Let

home? Do you want her to appear on the headlines the next day?” asked Samuel aggressively. He continued, “Don’t you know just how viciously and

there’s nothing going on between Kate and me. We’re

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.