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Chapter 832
Leonardo said, “You don’t have to bust your balls to keep me company, I can find someone else to drink with”
Ryan retoried “Cut the crap, send your address, I’ll be there in no time.”
Leonardo jokingly said, “You bonehead”
After Leonardo left, Marcus strolled up to the massive floor–to–ceiling window, staring at the skyscraper across the
street, which was a property of the Hartley Group, a combination of leisure, entertainment, and business.
Marcus pulled out his phone and saw many places in the building across where he could grab a drink. Cornelia only
said she was going to have drinks with Hannah but didn’t mention where
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtShe was a looker, what if she got wasted and ran into some creep?
Marcus womnes weren’t groundless. At that moment, Cornella was already quite sloshed, but she didn’t stop. She
was still knocking them back with Hannah.
Hannah was drinking steadily, silently, and Cornelia was there matching her drink for drink.
When Hannah was hammered, she slammed her glass on the table and suddenly burst into laughter, “Cornelia, you
know what? Steven is a total nutjob!”
Cornelia, flushed and a little hazy, slurred, “Nutjob? What weird thing has he done to you?”
Hannah laughed till she cried, “He doesn’t actually love me, but he wants to keep me chained to him. I have to tell
him every time I meet someone, and he always wants to know my whereabouts.
“When I’m filming, sometimes there are scenes where I have to kiss or get intimate with someone. That’s normal,
but he won’t let me do those scenes. If a script has those scenes, he’ll find a way to cut them. I’ve been with him
for so long, I’ve had the best of everything, but I’ve never been happy.”
Cornelia, propping up her flushed face, looked at the complaining Hannah with bleary eyes, “I don’t really get men,
why would he keep you around if he doesn’t love you?”
Hannah downed another drink, “Because I look like the woman he loves!”
Cornelia said, “If he has a woman he loves, he shouldn’t be bothering you. If he’s still bothering you despite having
a woman, it means he’s a player.”
Hannah said, “The woman he loves doesn’t love him. She’s married. He can’t have her, so he found a stand–in.
“Of course, not just any stand in would do. He had people searching far and wide for women who looked like her.
Some had similar eyes, and some had similar mouths, but none of them satisfied him
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“Just then, I was breaking into the film industry, so his people found me and took me to see him. He offered me a
contract on the spot. He said he could help me become the most popular star in the shortest time. The only catch
was I had to marry him
“I just wanted to be famous at the time. Out of vanity, I sold my soul. I knew clearly that I was just his replacement.
I always obeyed him. I did whatever he told me to do. I never dared to defy him.
“I really shouldn’t have, as a stand–in, fallen for him. I wanted him to like me, to love me. I wished our marriage
was more than just a contract.
“So, one day a couple of years ago, I threw away the birth control pills he gave me. I wrapped my arms around his
waist and told him I didn’t want to take birth control anymore. I wanted to have his child.
“That day, he completely changed. His past tenderness towards me was gone. He said to me like a demon from hell
that I would never deserve to bear his child. He told me not to forget that I was just a stand–in.
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