Filed To Story: Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel
Eva was conflicted. No one knew that secret about her. Many thought that since she was in showbiz, she had lost her virginity long ago. Moreover, she had a boyfriend whom she had been dating for three years. No one would think that a twenty-six-year-old Eva had managed to retain her purity.
However, she was the only one who knew the secret. When she was dating Tucker, although he asked to sleep with her, she still could not accept the premarital act as she grew up in a traditional family.
She then realized that although Tucker had said he loved her and did not want her to cheat on him, he went around to have pleasure. As such, Eva knew his true colors.
If even childhood friends couldn’t see through each other, how many men could genuinely love a woman?
Moreover, Eva had been in the biz for too long, so she didn’t believe such a thing as true love existed. It was just a matter of getting what one wanted.
Hence, she wanted to stay away from the biz. For filming, she would shoot when she was free, rest when she was tired, and be alone to enjoy what she wanted to do.
The third day arrived when Eva received a message from Louie. He had returned to the company to deal with his work, but he would come over on the afternoon flight with her termination contract.
Eva knew she couldn’t escape the cost this time, but she didn’t plan to run because she was open- minded enough to give everything a try. Louie taught her that, and she openly accepted it.
Eva initially rehearsed a play in the afternoon, but it was canceled halfway through. She got the news in the lounge.
As for who had canceled the play for her, she knew very well but didn’t say anything. Thereafter, she let her assistant remove her makeup. In the end, she wore a casual dress and got into the nanny van with her phone.
“Eva, where are you going?” the driver curiously asked as it was a strange time to leave. He had no idea where Eva was going.
“Back to the hotel,” Eva instructed, her heart in turmoil.
The driver immediately drove back to the hotel. On the way, she could only think about what she would face tonight. She was so nervous that her palms started sweating.
Finally, the car arrived at the hotel. Eva then stepped into the hotel lobby and said to Linda, “You guys can have the night off.”
Linda had been with Eva for a few years, so she knew that Eva had personal matters to deal with. Before getting on the elevator, Linda stated, “Eva, I won’t come back here tonight. I’ll have a gathering with my classmates. If there’s an emergency, call me.”
Eva nodded in response. “Okay. Go ahead, then.”
And so, Linda happily turned around and left. Meanwhile, Eva got on the elevator alone. The mirror reflected her scarlet face, and the hotel seemed quieter and less crowded in the afternoon.
Eva reached the door of her room and swiped her door card to go in. She decided to take a shower first. That was when her phone rang. She glanced at the number, and her heart tensed slightly. “Hello.” “Back at the hotel?”
“Yes.” “Come to my room.” “Louie, it’s still afternoon. I want to take a rest,” Eva said unhappily. She didn’t want herself to be a cheap commodity that Louie could summon at will.
After that night, she would be away from the company and his people. “We have to discuss the termination of the contract, which involves your subsequent share of the post-collection.” The man spoke in a low voice.
Eva choked for a moment. Did I overreact? And so, she answered, “I’ll come right after I shower.”
The shooting earlier made her sweaty and uncomfortable at the moment. Eva then went to the bathroom, took a shower, and blow-dried her long hair as she took a dress from her closet to change into it before she went out.
With her phone in hand, she went over to ring the doorbell of the next room. The door opened from the inside and revealed Louie, who was dressed in a white shirt and a pair of black pants as if he had rushed over from an important meeting.
At that moment, how he looked at Eva made him exude an aura of refined scum. Eva also felt his masculine aura on his body, as if he was a hungry wolf, so she involuntarily flushed under his gaze.
“Come on in; I’m still working.” After speaking, Louie returned to the sofa and leaned down to continue working on his computer. His slender fingers were tapping away as he typed out the document.
Eva sat across from him as her gaze involuntarily shot toward the man. In the past two years, she had been avoiding him. Soon after, the aura on the man was getting stronger, and he exuded the calmness of an iron fist and dictatorship.
At the same time, there was no denying that he was even more fascinating right now. Eva remembered that when she first met him, she had just gotten out of a small entertainment company and had joined another company. After three months, a merger crisis occurred in the company.
However, Stardom Corporation bought the small company she was working for. A week later, all the artists went to a meeting at the corporation. Eva went ahead and saw the young man who walked up to the podium of the meeting.
For the first time, Eva knew that the president of the Stardom Corporation was so young. At that time, all the female artists on the stage were in love with him, and the atmosphere was filled with adoration. Even Eva, who had a boyfriend, had to admit that the moment Louie’s gaze fell on her from the stage, her heart fluttered.
Later, she met him again while arranging a job. She bumped into him in a corner of a corridor. She also heard that many artists tried some tricks to seduce and approach him, but he gave them the cold shoulder and didn’t give any of them to take advantage of him.
Her manager had nagged all day long for her to get closer to the president to get more resources. At a drinking party, the manager deliberately asked her to go over. At the table, Eva saw Louie again.
Louie was so young, but everyone toasted him and paid him compliments. At that time, Eva nervously toasted him as well. She still remembered his deep passionate gaze staring at her for a while.
It made her heart flutter. Finally, after everyone had left, Louie said he would send her home. Eva was flattered beyond belief.
After he sent her home that night, Eva saw him many times in the company. A year later, he confessed his love to her, and she told him she had a boyfriend whom she was dating seriously.
That year, she was twenty-one, and he was twenty-seven.
Although Eva rejected his advances, she still saw him on occasion. Louie drank on her behalf and protected her from the investors’ unspoken rules. He protected her in the biz to keep her from all harm. However, he didn’t leave her life either, or even…
Eva vividly remembered Louie pinning her down in the lounge at a company dinner as he kissed and hugged her. She was drunk at that time.
That was the time she regretted the most. If not for that time, she wouldn’t have wavered in her love for her boyfriend. Then, she wouldn’t have lost her heart and felt guilty for Tucker while she couldn’t control her passion for Louie.
In the blink of an eye, they had known each other for three years until Tucker passed away. She had then left him for two years. In the blink of an eye, Louie was now thirty-two while she was twenty-six.
Time flew by very quickly, just like a handful of sand. Eva was unknowingly immersed in the memories for a while. When Louie held up a cup of tea to drink, she only returned to her senses to watch him finish his tea. Then, he frowned as his lips pursed tightly as if he had encountered some problem.
Eva couldn’t help but stare at his thin lips. She pursed her red lips as she thought of that one time in the dining lounge.
She recalled his crazy look.
As Eva was bored, she picked up a contract next to her. She flipped it and found that it was her termination contract, so she couldn’t help but read it.
“If there are any problems, you can bring them up, and I’ll have someone revise them,” Louie said as he raised his head.
“Okay.” Eva read it seriously because she didn’t want to be bound to Louie anymore.
His gaze fell on her body. The dress accentuated her slim waist, and her skin was fair. Her long hair framed a palm-sized face, showing off her beautiful, clean, and somewhat cold look.
However, the colder she was, the more Louie wanted to see her passionate side which was like fire. The stern face made him fall in love at first sight and lose his soul at second sight. As such, he did a lot of childish things. He would make everyone act for him and arrange for a drinking party just to meet her. Presently, the girl was right before him. She was within reach, but he still couldn’t get her.
“If I leave your company, I cannot work for similar companies for five years?” Eva uncovered a clause that worked against her.
Louie frowned as he muttered, “This is a clause for all artists. It’s a standard clause.”
“It’s too much,” Eva grunted lightly, but she didn’t care much as she had no intentions of filming after leaving the company.