Filed to story: Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel
In the video, the complete date and time were displayed, showing that it was recorded a week before Tucker’s death while he and Eva were dating. It showed him smooching with a voluptuous young lady in the elevator. Not only that, but they were in a hotel at that very moment.
Eva looked at the scene in the elevator in disbelief. After the elevator door opened and the pair came out, there was another scene showing them entering a hotel room. It wasn’t until 9.00AM the next morning that Tucker and his female companion finally came out of the room while cuddling each other and wearing different clothes from yesterday, so it was a no-brainer how they had spent the night in the hotel.
Eva squeezed her eyes shut; for a moment, her feelings were mixed. She had been racked with guilt for two years because of Tucker’s death, thinking that she had betrayed him. Little did she think that he had cheated on her before.
Louie added in a deep voice, “If you still don’t believe it, I can find the young lady in this video so that you can meet and talk to her.” He wanted to find a way for Eva to overcome this past relationship. She can’t keep on living in guilt over Tucker’s death.
“It’s not necessary.” Eva shook her head. Indeed, she calmed down a lot thanks to this video.
“Whatever Tucker said to you before he died, you don’t have to care about it anymore,” Louie said in a deep voice, comforting her.
Eva closed her eyes, her pretty face bearing some kind of brokenness that would make anyone’s heart ache terribly. She said to Linda, who had stayed up late with her, “You may go to sleep, Linda.”
Linda, of course, knew that her presence here was unnecessary; she opened the door to the guest room and went in.
Holding Eva in his arms, Louie said to her, “Let’s go to my room. I’ll keep you company while you sleep.”
Indeed, Eva needed company at this very moment. She was still recovering from the nightmare, feeling as though Tucker’s bloodied face would appear before her the minute she closed her eyes. Suffering from mental torture, she didn’t even dare to close her eyes right now.
Louie reached out and pressed her face to his chest. Holding her tight, he said, “Don’t worry. I’m here with you.”
Eva closed her eyes. Nestling against his chest, she indeed felt a powerful sense of security, as if she could resist her inner fears with this man’s strength.
And with that, she fell asleep in Louie’s arms without realizing it. Holding her in his arms, the latter leaned back against the sofa and acted as a body pillow for her until dawn.
When Eva opened her eyes in the early morning, she found herself sleeping on the sofa; the man she had slept on top of was closing his eyes in repose while propping his head on his elbow. She quietly crept out of his embrace, but the man nonetheless woke up. He opened his eyes and smiled, saying, “You’re up?”
“Thank you,” Eva said softly; she had slept well in his arms last night. Louie sat up while lightly moving the joints of his arms, which were tingling from the pressure on them. Even so, he dared not show it before the woman. “I’ve got scenes to do today. Why don’t you go back instead?” Eva said to him.
Louie looked up at her, emanating the captivating charm of a grown man through his thick eyebrows and jet-black eyes. “I’ll accompany you while you do your scenes. If you’re scared at night, you can sleep with your arms around me.”
Eva’s pretty face reddened slightly. In a soft voice, she uttered, “Suit yourself.”
At this moment, on the set of the film, Jessie and Julian were getting ready for their very first kissing scene in a room covered with green screens. Having changed into her costume, Jessie was wearing natural and tastefully simple makeup since she’d be doing some close-up shots today. Her lips were slightly pink in color, which made her look delicate and charming.
This kissing scene was one where Jessie’s character was intent on getting away from Julian’s character, who then furiously seized her by the throat and kissed her in an extremely controlled manner.
With everything ready, Jessie and Julian took up their respective positions, standing about one meter apart from each other. At this moment, Jessie stepped back while angrily speaking her lines to the man before her. “I’m not staying here unless you kill me and keep my dead body around you!” With that, she attempted to flee.
Vincent shouted, “Cut! That was good. Now let’s move on to the next scene where Julian grabs Jessie’s throat and forces her to look up as he kisses her. Come on, get in your positions.”
Jessie’s cheeks were already looking as though they’d been colored with rouge. Pursing her lips for a moment, she looked at the man opposite her before saying as if begging for mercy, “Go easy on me, okay?”
Julian’s lips curled upward into a mischievous smile. “I’ll try as much as I can.”
As soon as Vincent shouted the word “Action!” Jessie’s face took on a stunned expression. The next instant, Julian grabbed her throat with his large hand in a not-so-tight grip, wrapping an arm around her waist as his thin lips pressed down on hers in anger.
Jessie’s beautiful eyes rounded slightly. Her mind was blown; she looked totally stupefied. She forgot her script and her micro-expressions, let alone the fact that she had to struggle. At this moment, she was totally overwhelmed by the moist kiss sucking her pink lips…
“Cut! Let’s do it again,” Vincent ordered, upon which Julian let go of her while breathing heavily.
Jessie’s face reddened again; she put up her hands over it.
Seeing the situation, Vincent promptly said to the assistant director, “Come on, Timmy, clear the set.”
Consequently, all the crew members and actors who didn’t need to be present were asked to leave the set. Taking deep breaths in secret, Jessie sat on the floor, still blushing to her ears as though she couldn’t calm down at all.
Julian also sat on the floor next to her. Gazing at the young lady who looked so shy that she dared not show herself in public, he felt at once amused and sorry for her.
The makeup artist quickly touched up the pair’s makeup. Suppressing the urge to laugh, Jessie stood up, but as soon as she saw Julian across from her, she couldn’t help laughing; for a time, she laughed so uncontrollably that she couldn’t stop. Vincent even teased her as he looked on, saying, “Calm down for a moment, Jessie. I know being kissed by Julian makes you so happy that you want to laugh, but let’s finish this scene first, okay?”
Not only did Jessie burst out laughing this time, but Julian also laughed across from her, revealing a line of shiny white teeth. His eyes had a look of secret pleasure in them as he watched how the young lady split her sides laughing after he had kissed her.
At once, Jessie prepared herself emotionally, suppressing the urge to laugh at this moment by recalling some difficult days in her past. After calming down at last, she looked at the man opposite her and gave him a lovely wink.
“Alright, let’s do it again.” Vincent signaled for everyone to get ready with a wave of his hand. At Vincent’s command, Jessie’s eyes immediately took on a panic-stricken expression as Julian grabbed her throat in one hand. In the actual scene, the female protagonist would be pulled into the male protagonist’s grasp by a powerful force created by the latter. During the filming of the scene, however, Jessie had to throw herself at Julian for the latter to kiss her. No sooner had she come to the man and spoken her lines than the latter found the right angle, bent down, and pressed his thin lips to her pink ones.
Vincent was dissatisfied with the take, though. “Cut! It’s not emotional enough. You were too gentle, Julian; you weren’t manly enough.” Julian grunted, “I’m not manly enough?”
Vincent laughed at once. “What are you thinking about? I’m talking about the take!” Upon hearing this, Jessie, who had barely stopped laughing just now, instantly fell over laughing again.
Julian looked askance at her. How dare this little girl laugh at me? It was said that the set of a film was often filled with merriment, and now the filming was indeed so merry that everyone couldn’t stop laughing.
They then did several more takes of the scene, where Jessie got kissed by Julian again and again because Vincent was fussy about either the angle of the filming or the actors’ emotions. As a result, Jessie and Julian ended up having to kiss a total of 15 times in this scene. When they eventually moved on to the next scene, Jessie finally understood how difficult it was to do kissing scenes.
The filming lasted from noon to the afternoon. In her dressing room, Jessie looked at herself in the mirror. She wondered if it was just her imagination, but her lips felt kind of swollen from the kisses.
Meanwhile, in another dressing room, Julian downed one bottle after another of iced water. After he swilled God knew how many bottled drinks in a row, Bethany, his assistant who was looking on, became worried that he might’ve caught a cold.
Jessie then went to another set to get ready for her next scene, whereas Julian never came out of his dressing room.
Meanwhile, Eva was also doing her filming in another location. Her character’s role was to be the Demon Lord’s strategist, so she had to film a lot of scenes on her own.
At this moment, a gracefully handsome and slender figure was sitting in the shade of a tree where Eva was doing her filming. Louie had just arrived, but his presence instantly made everyone on the filming set—the mood of which had been cheerful at first—so nervous and fearful that they dared not even smile.
Moreover, one of the male actors found himself in an even more dreadful predicament: he was supposed to take Eva’s hand and drag her out of the scene. The first time he took her hand, they were stopped by the director, so he had no choice but to do another take of the scene. At this moment, Louie came over and stared at him with folded arms, his handsome face sullen as hell. As soon as the actor took Eva’s hand, he sensed a death stare. As a member of the film crew, how could he not know that this president of the Gilmore Corporation was after Eva?
Ronnie, the assistant director, was clueless about what was going on. “Cut! What are you doing? You were dragging her to the wrong side of the scene! You’re supposed to drag her to this side! Let’s do it again.”
Eva noticed that the actor playing opposite her was suffering from nerves. Knowing who was the cause of this, she walked straight up to Louie, saying, “Can you get in the car and take a break instead of coming over and interfering with our filming?”
“When did I ever interfere with your filming? I didn’t even say a word,” Louie argued somewhat sulkily.
“Just get in the car,” Eva said, chasing him away in an almost authoritative tone.
Everyone was on edge upon hearing this, fearing that Louie might get angry. To their great surprise, he merely turned around and left. At the sight of this, they heaved a sigh of relief. Seems like Eva is currently the only woman who can keep him under her thumb.
Rumor had it that Louie had fallen for Eva when the latter signed up for showbiz at the age of 20. He had courted her for three years, during which time she had a boyfriend. After her boyfriend passed away in a car accident, he spent two more years waiting for her. Now she was 26 years old, whereas he was already 32. Such a relationship was really rare in this industry, which was full of temptations and all sorts of beauties; but it was even rarer for someone to love a woman as unwaveringly as Louie did.
