2025-02-12 21:14:04"Have you seen a guy this handsome? Look over there and see that beauty. That guy is the cutest I've ever met and he's got the body." Molly was lusting after Prince and biting her lower lip seductively. She patted Avery's hand who immediately agreed with her.
"Yeah, you're right. Even though he's just Lara's PA, I'm going to jump him. I don't care about his status because he sure looks like one who would give me the satisfaction I want. I can just pay him off afterwards."
Avery was one to hit the nail on the head and never minces words. Being the one with more action, she made her move and went over to the place where the couple sat with Molly following behind. Pulling out a chair, Avery settled in it and placed her script by the side, her eyes fixated on Prince. The man, on the other hand, was uncomfortable with the gaze on him. Turning his face, he directed his gaze elsewhere. They were at a movie location and he was just doing his job as Lara's PA. Yeah, Lara was his wife and a big shot movie star and Prince was his husband and personal assistant.
"Hi handsome." Avery winked at Prince when he stole a glance at her. However, her eyes met with Lara's glare as she lifted her face that was dug into her script.
"Hey Lara. I hope you don't mind if I borrow your assistant. I think he'd come in handy after the day's shoot. He can just help calm off the stress."
"I know right?" Molly backed up her friend's words. Tilting her head to reach Avery's ear, she whispered. "I think a threesome would be great."
Avery's eyes flashed with so much delight as she covered her mouth with her left hand.
"Molly, You are the worst to think of such a thing. I think you're even worse than I am. My thoughts hadn't even gone in that direction. Wow! Avery was stunned about the suggestion her friend just made. It was damn crazy.
"Hey losers." Lara's words jolted her colleagues out of their lustful thoughts.
Taken aback by the name calling, Avery tried to retort but Lara gave her no chance. "Shouldn't you focus on getting your job done rather than flirting with the man. If you can't keep it in your pants, then go flirt elsewhere because my assistant is off limits. Even if he was interested, then he won't settle for cheap b*tches like you who have no class and self control." Lara blurted out leaving the girls perplexed and speechless.
Angrily, she stood up from her seat and commanded. "Come on Prince, let's get out of here."
"Why is she taking it too personal? The guy is an adult and can decline on his own if he isn't interested. Or is there something we're missing out here?" Avery said as she glanced at her friend who made a confusing face.
"I bet there's something going on between those two. He doesn't give Lara that PA look. I'm sure she must be jumping on him and acting like a saint. That girl is so stupid."
Lara never introduced Prince as her husband which was why her colleagues were flirting with him. She was somewhat ashamed of him.
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It was Prince's birthday and six months had already passed. Lara decided to make it special for him. Her mother had been singing it in her head to divorce Prince because they were never on the same level. However, Lara kept clinging to her husband because she thought he was her lucky charm. Her career had kicked off the moment she and her husband signed their marriage license some eight months ago.
Lara had to make Prince stop working at the restaurant and become her personal assistant. Lovelyn and Crystal had always been against her marriage and would stop at nothing to see them divorced.
"Prince, where are you? Hurry up and come home. I need you to do something for me." Lara said to her husband as soon as he picked the call. The latter had gone to the grocery shops to get some things for the house. He was happy that Lara didn't have any movie shoot that day which happened to be his birthday. However, Prince was not happy that Lara forgot to wish him a happy birthday. Does she even remember that it was his birthday?
At the grocery shop, Prince had two bags full of groceries which he dropped on the ground to pick his call. As the call came to an end, he put his phone into his trousers pocket and started outside the shop where he hailed a taxi. After ten minutes, Prince stood before the Villa which was their new abode. Lara had gotten the house some months after her career kicked off. She moved in with her mother and sister, including Prince. Their old home was built by their late father and not quite big to Lara's taste. Moreover, it was already so worn out and needed renovation.
However, when Lara's wealth began to grow, she got a better house and abandoned their family home.
As Prince started towards the house, it was unusually quiet and he thought that they must have gone out. 'But Lara just called me. Did she go out with her mother?' Prince was confused.
Still engrossed in deep thoughts, he opened the door and met with a shocker. "Happy birthday."
Prince was stunned to see his mother in law and sister in law wishing him a happy birthday. They even joined forces with his wife to surprise him.
'Are pigs flying?' He thought to himself. If he was close to the window, he would have checked it to see for himself. What had gotten into his in-laws, they even wished him a happy birthday. It really came as a shock. However, they were acting suspiciously but Prince didn't mind that. He was happy that his wife still regarded him.
Still in a daze, Lara stepped forward and embraced him. "Happy birthday to you."
From the side of his eyes, he could see his in-laws exchanging glances among themselves. From the look of things, they had no gift to present to him.
Prince couldn't care less.
Stretching her hand to him, Lara gave him her birthday present. "Open it." She said,
"Now?"
Lara nodded her head. "Open it." She repeated and made a gesture with her hand.
Prince was without a word.
Swiftly, he opened the box and saw a pregnancy test result and his mouth fell apart. "I'm going to be a father." Prince was so elated. He tried to hug Lara but she drew backwards causing him to be perplexed.
"Why are you refusing my hug?" Prince gave her a puzzled look and directed his gaze to his in-laws who were standing aside and glaring at him. Prince knew that they were up to no good.
He was still in his perplexed state when Lara snatched the paper from his hands. "Actually, the pregnancy test does not belong to you. It belongs to him?" Lara said with a smirk on her face as she pointed to someone who was approaching from the door.
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Turning around, Prince's gaze met with a man who looked familiar. He was still puzzled as he could not make a thing out of what was happening. It's got to be a dream. Yeah, he was surely dreaming.With furrowed brows, Prince turned around to gaze at Lara. He suddenly started laughing to everyone's astonishment."It's a prank, is it not? There's no way that this is true. We are husband and wife so the baby should belong to us." Prince was still in doubt when Kyle walked over and held Lara by the waist. Angrily, he rushed over to attack the man but Lovelyn stood in his way."I dare you to lay a finger on him."Prince ignored his mother in-law and continued towards the man whose hands were still wrapped around his wife's waist. However, Lovelyn ran to his front and gave him a resounding slap. "What do you think you're going to do? You think I'd let you attack my worthy and prospective son in law."Stopping in his tracks, Prince lifted his hand and massaged his face that had turned red f
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Kyle took the opportunity to taunt him more. He stopped nursing his wounds and held Lara by the waist. Pulling her closer to his body, he planted a kiss at her lips. "Honey, we're going to have the media itching for more of the juicy news because our names would be on everyone's lips. You will be the envy of those colleagues of yours who have been chasing after me but could not get closer. They'll all watch me place the trophy in your hands. Hahaha.""Ofcourse, you're the best my dear Kyle and my daughter deserves the best. Not some dumb pauper who has wasted eight months of her life. I'm glad that it's over now." Lovelyn chipped in.Crystal had been without a word, she just sat at the couch watching all the drama. She suddenly stood up from her chair and walked towards the door. Opening it, she said. "It's the least I can do for my ex brother-in-law. Don't say I'm not being considerate because I just helped you open the door."They all began to laugh at Crystal's little drama.Princ
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After a moment of silence, Kyle replied to her. “Let's leave this place at once. We'll go to my Manager's office and find out if he was able to get projects for us with the other movie producers.”“This is just a little setback in our lives and I'm sure we'll get past this stage." Lara nodded her head in agreement and Kyle started the car and drove off.Meanwhile, still in the woods, Prince was busy with his work as an errand guy at the movie location. He started that job because he knew that Lara and Kyle would show at the place to find out why they were cut off from Royal productions.While he was running around and making sure that things were going well, he noticed the way Avery and Molly were staring at him.Avery and Molly were still working with his production because he didn't have any reason to cut off all deals with them.It was right that they've flirted with him in the past when he was still married to Lara.Prince was Lara's personal assistant for some time. And while th
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Prince caught up with them and blocked the way, stopping them from going into the car.He was there to gloat and they knew it.Kyle tried to force the door open, but Prince held tightly onto it, his eyes fixed on Kyle in a mocking smile.After a few seconds, he turned his gaze to look at Lara with a wicked smirk on his face.Furious, Lara glared back at him and was about to charge but Prince stopped her.“Oh, do you want to hit me? I dare you." He said and shot each of them a cold look.He left their car door and stared at his hands while saying casually. “I bet you guys have not heard about Karma." He shook his head a few times and continued. “Who would have thought that the great Lara Norman and Kyle Sherman would be discarded like trash. Wow! It's really unbelievable.”"If I wasn't present to witness the incident, I might not have believed it. How pathetic." “Get out of my sight now, Prince. I don't want to do something I'll regret." Lara fired at him with bloodshot eyes. She wa
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“I'm listening, Miss Norman. What do you have to say?” Mr. Clark jolted her out of her thoughts.With pursed lips, Lara sighed before she began to speak.“Mr. Clark. I'd like to know why Royal productions want to have nothing to do with us any longer. What wrong have we done?" She shook her head vigorously and continued. "I'm asking because I don't remember doing anything wrong to offend anyone. I'm good with everyone and try to mind my business which is to deliver my best on set.”“And the same goes with my fiance here." Mr. Clark was silent for a while. He stared at the couple for a while before sighing deeply.“I um.. I have no answers to your questions. The only person who can give you the answers you seek is the boss.”"You know that I'm just an assistant. I don't have much to say when the boss has spoken. I'm only his employee.”“Then set up a meeting with us and your Boss. We'd like to know what the problem is. What wrong have we done to him?” Lara replied and Kyle agreed wit
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Prince could not help but laugh at her.For someone whose career was at the verge of collapsing, she sure has some nerves.Lara wants to put him off his job when hers was slipping away from her.Prince turned his face around and returned his gaze back to Lara before asking.“Are you talking to me?" “No, I'm talking to that tree over there." Lara pointed to a tall tree behind Prince but the latter did not budge.He only smiled, raised both of his shoulders up and replied nonchalantly. "Ok, keep talking to it then. I'm sure it'll give you a response soon.”Prince began to walk away but Lara hurriedly blocked his path again. “Are you making a fool of me? Tell me what you're doing here, Prince." Lara's interference was getting Prince pissed off but he chose to keep calm."Look, Prince. You have to leave this place at once. Like my fiance just told you, you're not allowed to work here.” Kyle added.Prince looked at the couple before him and smiled for a while before saying to them. “You
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Kyle ignored her and started the car. When he drove out of Royal productions studio, he turned briefly to Lara and inquired.“Where are we going?" "We're going to the movie location in the woods. Maybe we'd have the chance to talk to Mr. Clark and hear what he has to say.”Mr. Clark is one of the assistant producers and they have worked together all this time.There were two assistant producers and the other one was not on set with them.Most of the crew members of Royal productions know their Boss personally. However, they've been asked not to say anything about him or post his pictures online.Lara gave him the address of the movie location and they drove off.While on their way, Kyle felt bad about what he had earlier said to her and decided to apologize.“Lara, umm. I'm sorry about how I spoke to you earlier. I should not have said all those things to you." “And, I should not have left you to fight with the receptionist, especially because you're pregnant. We can't afford to los
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The receptionist could not swallow the physical abuse from Lara so she had to retaliate.With her hands balled into fists, Asha bit her lips and punched Lara really hard and the duo ended up fighting each other.Kyle just stood aside and watched the fight. He didn't even attempt to separate the girls.He believed that Asha, the receptionist deserved to be beaten up for calling Lara a crazy person.The fight lingered on and when Kyle saw that Lara was being defeated, he decided to separate them.“That's enough, Lara. Just leave her alone and save your reputation. I know that you can beat her. However, it's not worth it because you have a lot to lose." Kyle was trying to make Lara feel better with the words.He knew that if he left them to continue fighting, Lara would be severely dealt with by Asha.The receptionist looked fragile but was a lion in the fight.She almost tore Lara's hair apart if not for the timely intervention of Kyle.As he pulled his fiance out of the fight, Kyle loo
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Prince laughed at her for a while before replying to her. "Please, give me some credits. I was never begging you for money when we were married, was I?" “Being your P.A, I earned all the money you paid me because I worked for it. Moreover, you were the one who asked me to quit my job at the restaurant to work for you. It was not like I've ever begged you for money.”Prince sighed and continued. “Well, that's not the reason I called you at this time." “So why have you called me?" “I just wanted to check up on you. I needed to be sure that you haven't ended up in the hospital. I mean, with all the news about you guys in the media, someone in your shoes might end up in the hospital.”“Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you. As you can see and hear, I'm hale and hearty and won't be ending up in the hospital anytime soon if that's what you're expecting." “If you've called to gloat, then think again because I'm not going to give you any reason to laugh at me." Lara angrily blurted out.“And
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