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Capítulo 44: Premiere Night (4)

"Oh me? I'm Valentina, the third female lead. Sorry for my late entrance. It's a pleasure to meet you all." A soft, yet seductive voice came out as the woman looked around at the reporters.

Valentina looked around at the reporters and did her best to smile at them. Despite her best efforts, it seemed that she was the last cast member to arrive on the carpet. Thankfully the male and female lead had held them up, otherwise wouldn't she be walking down an empty carpet?

"Miss Valentina, how come you're the last one to show up? Don't you find it disrespectful that your senior cast members including the director showed up before you? Where are your manners?"

A reporter started with a vicious question.

Turning to look at the man who asked the question, Valentina took a deep breath before answering.

"I will admit that I did arrive late due to some unfortunate circumstance. It wasn't intentional, but that's not an excuse. I plan on apologizing to my fellow castmates and the director I offended for my poor manners." She directly took the blame without telling her excuse. After all, could she really tell them that her company was scheming against her, and she only just found out about the premiere? No way! She could only take accountability.

Seeing the reporter continue to stare at her, she approached Jay King and Anna Lire and bowed her head.

"I have to apologize to Mr. King and Miss Lire for being late to the premiere. Please forgive me."

"Ah it's okay, we're all friends here." Anna hurriedly told her.

"Thank you for your consideration." Valentina immediately lifted her head and smiled at her.

"Miss Valentina, as one of the most junior members of the cast, can you say that your performance didn't bring down the acting? There were rumors that due to your insufficient skill, you delayed the filming."

Another reporter threw a vicious curveball at her.

"Although I can't say anything about my acting skills, I think I performed to the best of my ability and performed enough for the director to be satisfied. That's all I can ask as I continue to improve my skill in my craft." Valentina gave a confident reply.

As the reporters continued fielding questions at her, she answered everything gracefully with a smile. Her smile became more and more natural because each time she answered correctly the system kept announcing.

[Reporter acknowledgement: 1/5]

[Reporter acknowledgement: 2/5]

[Reporter acknowledgement: 3/5]

[Reporter acknowledgement: 4/5]

The reporters kept bombarding her with so many questions that Jay King and Anna Lire seemed like extras. Finally, when she had gained the acknowledgment of 5 reporters, Valentina gently interrupted them.

"I wish I had more time to answer your questions, but we must get inside in time to view everything. Thank you for your time." She turned elegantly and started heading inside, leaving the other two behind.

"One last question Valentina, who you're wearing today? You look beautiful." A fervent voice called out.

Valentina turned back and saw it was a younger woman holding a camera. 

Grinning, she replied, "Thank you for the compliment." And continued walking without reply.

Naturally, she couldn't respond since she herself had no idea who she was wearing. She just put on whatever the stylist gave her.

Once she got inside, she saw that everyone was interacting with drinks and hors d'oeuvres. As Valentina walked in, everybody stared at her in stunned silence.

Who was this gorgeous beauty? How come they hadn't seen her before?

As she approached the director and introduced herself, everybody realized it was Valentina the third female lead!

"Hello again, Director Cranston, I apologize for being late." Valentina bowed her head in greeting.

"Hello Valentina, you look gorgeous tonight. How have you been? I've only heard good things from Director Lee about you."

"Thank you so much. I really enjoyed working with her. So much so in fact that if you have another job recommendation I'd be willing to take it." Valentina joked with him.

"Ha ha ha, I see you're greedy for more roles hmm? Well, if you increase your acting skills I'll think about it." Director Cranston laughed boisterously before leading her around, "Come along let me introduce you to some people."

Everyone around was shocked to see the usually strict director laughing happily. It was even more surprising to see him happily introduce an actress to different acquaintances.

For Valentina, the night could be called a resounding success. Thankfully Director Cranston was feeling amenable to her and had led her around introducing her to people. Although she wasn't close to any of the other cast members, she had felt uncomfortable by the lustful looks she received from the men and the subtle glares from the women. She knew that her reputation was bad, but she didn't think that anyone would obviously shun her and was grateful for Director Cranston's care. She hadn't felt alone as he took her around, almost like a proud father introducing his daughter to everyone. 

After the social hour, everyone gathered in the theatre and watched the first 2 episodes of the 15-episode drama. Afterward, there was a Q&A session where Valentina didn't have to answer any questions since she was such a minor character. She just had to sit down and look pretty.

Once that was over, Valentina politely rejected any invitation to continue the night by partying. She excused herself to the restroom and pulled out her phone. A quick search showed that the <Spring Love> premier was trending, so she decided to tackle the second part of the systems task. She quickly found photos that photographers had taken of her and reposted them along with some. Thinking for a moment, she tagged both Law Karameh and Won Joyeon.

Completed with her task, she decided to figure out how to get home. She had been dropped off at the premier by Kaiser, but she figured he would be gone by now. The Grayson estate didn't allow taxis, but she could always go to her own apartment. Although the space was less comfortable than the Grayson residence, it was solely hers and with Luca gone, she had no reason to be at the Grayson's. And she wanted to avoid Kaiser.

He had confessed his attraction and although he never acted inappropriately, Valentina wanted to keep a proper distance from him. As much as could be kept while living in his house.

Before she could call a taxi, a call came through.

It was from Kaiser. 


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Capítulo 45: Premiere Night (5)

"Hello, Kaiser?"

When Kaiser heard her soft, husky voice say his name, he felt something stir in his body. Unconsciously he relaxed as he answered her.

"Are you done with the premiere?" Kaiser asked her. it had been a couple of hours since he dropped her off, and he figured it should be coming to an end.

"Yes, how did you know? I was about to call a taxi to take me home to my apartment." Valentina replied. 

Hearing her plans to go back to her apartment, Kaiser was glad to have a valid reason to stop her.

"Stay there, I'm on my way to come get you." 

"There's no need" Valentina firmly declined, "Since Luca isn't around, I'm clearly not needed. I planned on resting at my place for a couple of days and relaxing."

Hearing her draw a firm line between the two of them made Kaiser chuckle. No matter the situation, her stance refused to change, and she firmly pushed him away. Still, he was determined to make her crack and at least admit that she was interested in him.

"I'll come pick you up regardless. Luca had a fever and has been crying. He has apparently spent the day destroying his grandparents' house because he misses you."

 "How far away are you? Is he okay?" hearing her tone change from something casual to a voice filled with urgency, he felt a cruel satisfaction as her thoughts became focused on his words.

"Say your goodbyes. When you're done, come to the back of the theater. I'm here waiting. And don't worry, I've taken care of any paparazzi." He cut the phone and waited for her to come out.

After a couple of minutes, he saw a girl dressed in red walk out of the building. Seeing her dressed in the clothing he bought, Kaiser couldn't help but smile. She looked radiant, like a goddess.

She looked around in confusion before spotting him smoking a cigarette by the sports car. As she approached him, he extinguished the cigarette before opening the car door for her.

As he started the car, Valentina hurriedly asked him, "Kaiser, what happened to Luca all of a sudden? How did he become like that? I thought you said he was feeling more stable?" Seeing her eyes full of worry for his son, his heart warmed up.

"He was, which is why he went to visit his grandparents. Everything was going fine until this morning when he couldn't see or call you. Then he apparently went on a hunger strike. Instead of my parents telling me, they hid it so he started destroying everything in their house in a fit of rage and cried all day."

"Oh no. Should I have called him after all? "Valentina asked desponded. She hadn't realized that Luca had formed such a dependence on her. She had assumed that since the child was happy around her, he was getting better. As Kaiser continued driving her to their destination, she turned and asked him.

"Kaiser, this may be a really personal question to ask but I'd appreciate it if you could let me know. What happened to Luca's mom?"

From the time she had heard the children teasing Luca at Blue Robin Lounge, she had been curious as to what the story was. Although there wasn't a lot of news about Kaiser, she had found some things mentioning his son but nothing about a wife or even a girlfriend. Who was Luca's mother and why was the child so dependent on a random girl like her?

Kaiser was silent for a couple of moments, and she thought he wouldn't answer her.

"Is that all you want to ask?" 

Valentina hesitated before firming her mind up. "Why is Luca so dependent on me? For all intents and purposes, I am a stranger and yet he seems strongly attached. What happened to the child?"

"I cannot tell you everything, however, Luca's mother is dead. She died soon after giving birth to him." His voice was emotionless as he responded.

"As for why he's dependent on you? He's not really had a motherlike figure in his life except one person from the other parent's side who horribly betrayed and emotionally abused him when he was younger. As a result, apart from his grandmother, I've kept him isolated from any woman." He gave a dark chuckle before continuing, "I'm guessing all his bottled-up feelings exploded onto you when you decided to save him which is why he's quite clingy now. He's just searching for someone to love him."

Hearing the dark backstory behind Luca's behavior, Valentina could feel her heart hurt. She could empathize with being betrayed and searching for love as an orphan. It made her want to hug him even harder the next time she saw him.

"So, you've heard a dark secret of the Grayson family. Honestly, his behavior will probably get worse before it gets better, and it might interfere with your life as well. So, if you want to get out now I completely understand. We can break the deal between us with no harm to both sides."

Valentina examined Kaiser's face and seeing the sardonic smile on his face reached her hand out and punched his shoulder as hard as she could.

Naturally, it was her hand that hurt as he didn't even flinch, and the car remained steady on the road.

"Do I seem like such a heartless bastard to you? I want Luca to get better and regain his happiness as a child. If my presence makes that possible, of course, I'll stay for the duration of our deal." Valentina declared.

"And after the deal?" Kaiser asked in a low voice.

"We'll play it by ear then. Also, didn't you already trick me into adding an extra month to it?" she glared at him.

Valentina caught sight of a sharklike grin and shivered.

"Rather than a trick, let's call it taking advantage of an opportunity. I plan on doing more of that in the future."

"Adding more months to my stay?"

"Yes. Unless you've changed your mind about becoming Luca's stepmother?"

"No way! I'm leaving in four months guaranteed." Valentina rolled her eyes at his continual nonsense.

"We'll see Valentina, we'll see." He sounded like a devil, and she swore she could see demon wings behind him.

"Is it too late to accept your offer to leave?"

Kaiser's only response was to laugh softly.


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