Chapter 7
“Look! It’s really Irvin Steed!”
“Mr. Steed, why are you here at this time?”
“Mr. Steed, can you explain why you’re driving this car instead of your usual luxury van?”
“Mr. Steed, is there another passenger in your car?”
“Mr. Steed, why do you look so haggard?”
Irvin was highly irritated by the flashing lights of the cameras and the reporters‘ incessant questions, so he disregarded the kindly image he had built up over time and glared rather fiercely at them as he said, “Please move aside. I will not answer any of your questions.”
But there was no way the reporters were going to let Irvin go just like that. Seeing that Irvin was all by himself, one reporter took the chance to take a photo of Irvin’s face.
“Mr. Steed, please answer our questions!”
“Are you behaving like this because you’re trying to cover up something?”
Irvin was so annoyed by these reporters that when he spotted a camera within arm’s reach aimed at his face, he grabbed it and flung it to the ground.
Then he shoved the reporters asible and walked into his house, completely forgetting that Rainie was still stuck inside his
car
Little did he know that this was only the beginning of the retribution he was about to receive.
Rainie was so angry at Irvin for leaving her behind that she wanted to strangle him. He had managed to shake off the reporters by forcibly making his way into his home, but now, the reporters had surrounded the car again because they wanted to know who else was with Irvin.
“Hello Miss, is it alright for us to ask you a few questions?”
Nobody knew who the person inside was, so they tried to be pole at first. When they realized that no other staff or bodyguards were stopping them from surrounding the car, they began attempting to open the car door themselves.
Rainie finally resigned herself to her fate and stepped out of the ear
“Oh, it’s scriptwriter Rainie Jackson! Miss Jackson, were you attending an event or filming with Irvin Steed earlier?”
Rainie was annoyed with Irvin, but she had to maintain her usual friendly image at the same time, so she smiled and replied, “Ah…we went to discuss the next script Irvin is going to work on.”
She had no idea badly this statement of hers was going to be misunderstood.
The two of them quickly started trending on Twitter Irvin and Rainie were tagged in several tweets along with hashtags like “clothes in disarray“, “scandalous“, “Irvin Steed in love” and “Irvin and Rainie“.
[Irvin Steed and up–and–coming scriptwriter Rainie Jackson were seen together at a cemetery!]
[Is Irvin Steed dating Rainie Jackson?!]
Other hashtags like “Irvin Steed’s true colors” and “Irvin Steed violent in public also started trending because he had
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smashed that reporter’s camera in front of everyone else. Whitney laughed so merrily when she saw these topics and hashtags trend at the number one spot on Twitter.
“What the heck is going on?” Irvin’s manager, Betty Sadler, flunga bunch of photos onto the table in front of Irvin.
Irvin pursed his lips tightly and his expression was nasty.
“I need you to explain to me what happened.” Betty sat down and massaged her temples with an exhausted look on her face.
Irvin kept his head down and narrowed his eyes, so it was hard to tell what he was thinking about.
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His refusal to cooperate only made Betty even angrier than she already was.
She wanted to give him a good lecture, but she knew doing that wouldn’t solve the problem at hand.
She softened her tone and tried to sound more like she was trying to discuss the matter with him and not scold him, “Irvin, ever since you signed a contract with us, you’ve never done anything out of line like this. I know you were caught off guard and that’s why you reacted like this. You just need to tell me exactly what you were doing. Only then, I will be able to help you spin a better story and get us through this.”
Irvin finally–responded He looked up at Betty with some aggression before it quickly dissolved into a look of repentance.
Betty thought that Irvin had hung his head earlier because he was upset. That look of aggression wasn’t something she expected.
Sorry, Betty, I wasn’t careful this time. I’ll be more careful the next time. I happened to run into Rainie Jackson, so I gave her a ride, that’s all.” It was as if that vicious look in his eyes earlier was nothing but Betty’s imagination.
*Please go
ahead and deal with this matter in any way you wish will take on any work you give me, Irvin continued to sound humble and apologetic.
Betty was satisfied with this response and nodded. “Since something like that has happened, I’m afraid you’d have to stay at home for the time being. Don’t go out unless absolutely necessary. Wait for this whole thing to blow over first.”
Irvin nodded without any expression on his face.
After leaving him with a few more instructions on what to be careful about, Betty proceeded to call the company’s PR team!
to settle the matter.
As Irvin walked out, he spat, “Damn you, Whitney Zinke! How dare you set me up like that?!”
He took his phone out and tried to call Whitney, but all he got was an engaged tone, It took several calls before he realized that Whitney must have blacklisted his number.
What had he done to make Whitney play him like that? He simply couldn’t think of anything he could have done. There was no way he could have thought that the current Whitney might have actually been reborn and the things he did to her in her previous life had been a million times crueler than what he was doing to her now.
Just then, Rainie started calling him and he quickly answered it. “Irvie, why did you just leave me behind in the car?”
“I’m sorry Rainie, I wasn’t thinking straight and left you in the car I’m really sorry, it’s all my fault.” Irvin wasn’t sure why
Winey was behaving so abnormally, so he had to placate Rainde first.
By this time, Kaine had already taken a warm bath and was lying comfortably on her own bed at home. She was angry levin for leaving her in such an awkward situation, but she wasn’t angry enough to give him the cold shoulder.
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Actually, the two of them weren’t really that in love with one another. But they benefit from each other and got along well, so they decided to get together.
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“Rainie, now isn’t the time to talk about this. Why do think Whitey suddenly decided to play us out like that? If she hadn’t done that, none of this would have happened.”
Since his number was already blacklisted, he wanted Rainie to calling Whitney instead.
Rainie was surprised to hear that Whitney had blacklisted Irvinumber. After putting that together with Whitney’s rather nonchalant tone of voice when she asked her to meet them, Rattle felt for the first time that Whitney was no longer within her control.
“Irvie, relax. Maybe it’s because of your response when she told you she wanted to divorce Julins Latreille? Remember? After she said that, you advised her to think twice. Could she be angry with you over that?” That seemed like the only plausible
reason to Rainie.
So Whitney was just throwing a tantrum? Irvin scoffed inwardly She’d better come up with a script that will win me an award, thought Irvin. Or he would never forgive her.
“Tell you what. If you’re free today, go pay her a visit and coax her? Tell her to stop being so difficult.” Irvin left this task to Rainie
This was something that Rainie really didn’t want to do, not because of any other reason, but purely because she was terrified of Julius.
As long as Julius was around, she would become extremely fearful and she never dared to look at him in the eye.
If she didn’t do this, then she would have to write a script herself. However, none of her scripts turned out great. Doing this would spell the end of her career too.
By the time Rainie arrived at Whitney’s place, Whitney was scrolling through comments by netizens on what happened earlier.
