Chapter 30 Escaping the Trap
“What are you looking at?”
A stranger was speaking to her.
His voice came out of nowhere and he was speaking next to Rose’s car.
Rose turned her head sharply and automatically took a step back,
Her back was pressed against the wall. She felt the cold panel of the air conditioner.
A chill ran down her back.
The square-shaped panel plastered to her silk shirt like a snake waiting to strike.
The strange man was standing close to Rose.
If she didn’t take a step as she turned, her lips would graze his cheek.
The strange man was Hector.
The top star of the show business.
“Hello.” They were standing too close. Rose didn’t have room to shake his hand.
She moved away and looked directly into Hector’s eyes.
A drop of water landed on the back of Rose’s hand.
The water was from the tip of Hector’s hair.
Hector was fresh out of the shower and standing there with only a bathrobe, his hair wet.
Rose had to admit that he looked more handsome in person,
However, she was also aware that he wasn’t as innocent and kind as he looked.
Due to the close proximity, Hector’s sharp features looked extra dangerous.
Rose became wary easily.
She often felt dangerous around Judson. But Judson never triggered the alarm in her head.
On the contrary, even when Judson pinned her to the balcony and strangled her, Rose wasn’t nervous.
This abnormal courage was the only benefit she gained from the 13 years with Judson.
However, although this was the first time she met Hector, Rose’s entire body tensed up.
Her intuition was right.
Hector put his hand on the wall to block Rose’s way as she moved.
His sudden move caused the drop of water to drop…
“Are you a reporter?” Hector asked. He ran his gaze from Rose’s forehead to her feet.
Rose immediately realized it was a flirtation.
She felt a strange urge in the pit of her stomach. The high temperature
made her feel like she was burning up.
“Mr. Tate, I’m Rose Edwards, a reporter for Flourish Media. I’m here to do an in-depth interview with you as your studio requested.”
Despite the narrow gap between them, Rose showed her reporter’s ID to Hector.
“An in-depth interview?” Hector tilted his head and squinted. His gaze fixed on Rose’s face. “How deep do you want to go?”
Rose felt nauseated.
It took Hector merely three months to become a top star from a nobody.
In the past, he only played a few small roles in some small productions of TV shows. Even when he was the male lead, his role wasn’t important.
He was just a nobody in the show business.
Nobody expected that his latest TV show would be a hit. The original show was pushed off due to editing problems. The network used Hector’s show as a replacement.
Hector was lucky that there weren’t many competitions and his role was charming.
Before the show was over, the female lead was exposed that she had a boyfriend. It caused the fans of their pairing to turn into Hector’s fans.
Hector reaped all the benefits.
There weren’t any new upcoming stars in the show business for six months. Hector filled the blank and boosted the interest of the declining market.
Because Hector was busy with work and always kept silent, with the protection of many investors, he didn’t have any negative news so far.
He gained applause from people both inside and outside the industry.
However…
Rose thought the man in front of her was cheesy and vomiting.
“Ms. Edwards….. How do you want to do this interview?” Hector leaned in. He was propping himself up with his forearm.
He said in a presumptuous tone, “I’m open to suggestions…
Rose stopped avoiding his gaze. She looked up and stared at Hèctor coldly.
“Mr. Tate, sit down and talk normally.”
Hector was stunned.
Rose’s piercing gaze was as sharp as a knife as if she could see through him.
Her tone was calm and normal. Yet, Hector felt Rose’s words had
stripped him of his good look accurately like a scalpel and exposed his ugly inside to the world.
Hector swallowed hard.
He sensed that something dangerous had grabbed him and held him by his neck.
But when Hector looked closer, he noticed the tempting blush on Rose’s cheeks.
He remembered that Rose’s voice was husky and se xy earlier…
Rose was the unity of calm and wild at the moment. Her rationality and her emotions were entwining and fighting for domination, making her more beautiful…
Hector suddenly felt his work that day was easy.
“Ms. Edwards, you’re too pretty to just be a reporter.” Hector’s tone turned more playful. But the glint of greed in his eyes gave him away.
“I wouldn’t have the chance to see you if I wasn’t a reporter.”
Rose still looked sober.
It was strange because there were beads of sweat on her nose and the blush had spread from her face to her chest.
Hector wondered how Rose managed it.
Hector found the air in the room was unsufferable, though he was merely here for minutes.
How could Rose stay so calm?
“Mr. Tate, are you not feeling well?” Rose’s gaze was filled with mockery. Her tone was the same. “Maybe we should go to another room for the interview.”
“Sure. Good idea.”
Hector suddenly bent down as he tried to pick Rose up bridal style. “Let’s go to another room and take our time to do the interview.”
Hector couldn’t hold back anymore.
He wasn’t famous for long, yet he had been in the show business for a long time… Hector had seen many beautiful women. Still, Rose was the most attractive one.
Chapter 30 Escaping the Trap
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Hector thought, “Her body is reacting to the drug. How can she still think clearly?
To conquer a woman like her or be conquered by her… Either way, it’s going to be fun…”
***
But Hector’s fantasy was shattered before he could act on it.
“Ouch!”
Hector screamed and stumbled backward with a hand on his wounded
arm.
Before he figured out what Rose did and found his footing again, Rose stroked him with the same scary force. She hit him in the head repeatedly and caused him to fall to the ground.
The assistant was guarding the door. He rushed in when he heard the noise.
As soon as he opened the door, he was hit by a plastic bag with a heavy phone inside.
“Ouch!”
The assistant squatted down with a hand on his eyes.
“Catch…..her… Seize her…” Hector struggled to speak as he wriggled on
the floor.
An obvious dent appeared on Hector’s forehead. It was turning purple as if he was burned.
The assistant was stunned.
“Hector! What happened to you?”
The agent and other staff ran over as they heard the scream.
“Hector! What’s going on?”
“What happened? Where’s that reporter?”
Someone helped Hector up. He shouted furiously, “Seize Rose. We can’t let her get away.”
The staff immediately started searching for Rose.
Yet, when they ran outside, Rose was nowhere to be found.
They carried Hector to the couch. Hector grabbed his phone and dialed a number angrily. He suppressed his anger and spoke sweetly when the person on the other end picked up.
“Lillian, I’m sorry… I…I failed…”
“What happened?” Lillian asked curtly. “I set everything up. What an idiot.”
Hector didn’t dare to retort. He explained weakly, “She looked like she lost control due to the drug. But I didn’t expect that she would carry a weapon with her. She ran off after attacking me…..”
“How useless!” Lillian scolded harshly. “You’re helpless. Do you want to lose everything or do you have a death wish? Tell me, I can help you with both.”
Hector opened his mouth to say something, but the dialing tone cut him off.
Lillian had hung up.
“Idiot! Stu pid! He couldn’t even do this simple task right!” Lillian paced back and forth furiously in her room. She suddenly came to a stop.
“Cr ap! I notified Judson that Rose was cheating on him and asked him to go to the hotel…”
Hector said that Rose was under the influence of the drug.
Lillian was worried that Rose would run into Judson. She didn’t want Rose to get close to Judson again.
***
“Mr. Roach…are we going upstairs?” Isidro asked timidly.
Isidro rolled the note in his palm into a ball.
Isidro scolded himself inwardly for his stu pidity.
Someone gave him the note, saying it was from Rose. Isidro believed it without checking and just gave it to Judson.
The note had carried shocking news.
Judson was sitting in his car outside of the hotel with a gloomy expression.
He couldn’t believe that Rose was willing to sleep with a star in exchange for an interview…
He wondered what other ridiculous things Rose would do.
Judson felt unfair as Tameka had scolded him for not treating Rose well…
Judson had the urge to call Tameka over and show her how spoiled
Rose was.
“Mr. Roach!” Isidro suddenly shouted. “Look! That’s…Ms. Edwards”
