"Asher Land, you don’t keep your promises. You said you’d spoil me." She didn’t yell, but looked earnestly into his eyes, speaking slowly and clearly.
"I’m spoiling you because I care. I don’t want you going to work anymore since you’re pregnant. Not letting you work is for your own good,..."
"That’s not it." Sophie Smith interrupted him, "Spoiling someone isn’t about giving them a carefree life, it’s about giving them the life they want. I want to have my own job and feel fulfilled. I don’t want to be a caged canary."
Her eyes were sincere and earnest. As she spoke, she was rational, only wanting to express her truest thoughts to him.
"Talking like you’re so wronged!" Asher scoffed, as if he was abusing her.
Before her belly starts showing, she should quickly finish up her pending shoots and then take care of her health.
Even though he didn’t want to, seeing her pleading look, he couldn’t bear to refuse.
"You can go to the company, but if anything happens to the baby, don’t expect another chance." He awkwardly nodded and agreed.
"Don’t worry, nothing will happen to the baby. You know Sofia Scott, right? She’s six months pregnant and still acting!" Sophie confidently assured him.
Six months and still acting?
"Ha, Sophie, if you’re still acting at six months, I’ll disband your crew!"
Once she got Asher’s ’permission’, Sophie excitedly called Sunny while Asher was in the shower.
"Hi, Sunny, I can return to work tomorrow. Can you check my schedule, coordinate it, and let me know? Put the most important tasks first,..."
"The most important thing would be..." Sunny muttered to herself on the other end of the line and then suddenly smacked her forehead, "The most important thing is for you to finish shooting ’Angel City.’ Wyatt Sterling insists on having you as the lead actress. The investors have given him a three-month deadline, otherwise, they’ll withdraw funding. You’ve worked with Wyatt before. He’s trapped in scandal and can’t get out. He wants to redeem himself, so help him out."
Sophie was surprised by Sunny’s change of heart, remembering how during Wyatt’s scandal, Sunny repeatedly warned her to keep her distance from him.
For a moment, Sophie was silent, and Sunny didn’t get a reply from her.
"What? Are you not willing to help him now?"
How could she not want to help Wyatt?
"I need to talk to Asher about it. Could you help me persuade him? I don’t get him. He always thinks there’s something shady between me and Senior Brother. It boils down to him being petty and overthinking things..." ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵⁂𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮⁂𝓷𝓮𝓽
"Who’s petty? Who’s overthinking things?"
Upon hearing Asher’s voice, Sophie didn’t even turn around and quickly hung up the phone.
"Tell me, who were you talking about?" His face darkened, hair still dripping wet, as he walked slowly towards her.
This woman, how was he petty?
Just recently, he agreed to all her requests, and now she’s going behind his back talking bad about him to others?