King of Hollywood-Chapter 605 - 13 Witnessing Charlize

"How many times have I told you, Ed! What if I had reacted badly and made a mistake?" Although Sarah was scolding, her tone was obviously more playful.

"I’ve said it before, your little fists can’t hurt me." Adrian laughed and immediately cupped her face, kissing those lush, red lips.

After a passionate kiss, Sarah finally caught his hand on her pert buttocks, "Not now, Ed, the party has just started."

"I know." Listening to her panting, Adrian laughed, kissed her lightly again, and then let go.

"I thought you weren’t going to come tonight."

"How could I not? I usually keep my promises."

"But you were late today."

"There was a reason for that. A girl from the crew was also heading back to Los Angeles, and I offered her a ride on my plane and also took her home by car. You know how the traffic is on weekends; it was beyond my control."

"Indeed, but... a girl?" Sarah straightened her clothes and opened the door, giving Adrian a half-smiling, half-serious look.

"What are you thinking?" Adrian pinched her cheek, "That girl is only a year older than Lily, she’s still a child."

"That’s not my problem." Sarah made a funny face, shrugged, and then sighed, "Mom knows, Ed."

"Oh?" Adrian raised an eyebrow, not too surprised, "Do I need to find time to go to your house for a detailed explanation?"

"No," Sarah laughed and shook her head, "I’m just reminding you to be prepared the next time you visit my house."

As they reached the hallway entrance, she suddenly stopped, looking at Adrian, "Even though it’s pointless to say this now, if I had to choose again, I definitely wouldn’t make the same choice."

"Okay, okay," Adrian laughed heartily, "Maybe one day you’ll wake up and find yourself ten years in the past, then you can make any choice you want."

Her words instantly dispelled the rather affectionate yet somewhat melancholic atmosphere, and Sarah rolled her eyes at Adrian and walked out. At that moment, a figure suddenly crashed into her arms, and a noisy voice erupted. freёweɓnovel_com

"Oh, my dear sister, I finally found you, hiding out here..." The girl looked about 14 to 16, with blonde hair and very lively, though her eyes were a bit too big, yet still pretty. However, she was incessantly chatty about how she discovered Sarah was missing and searched the entire house.

"Alright, I know..." Sarah smiled helplessly trying to interrupt, but suddenly the girl looked at Adrian and screamed, "Oh my God, you’re the Miracle Director?!"

The girl’s eyes sparkled as she grabbed Adrian’s hand, seemingly overwhelmed, "I’m so honored, I never thought I’d meet you here. I love your movies, ’The Professional,’ ’Forrest Gump,’ ’Braveheart,’ ’The Matrix,’ etc. I’ve watched each one seven or eight times at home. Oh, I am..."

She then remembered she hadn’t introduced herself, but with a mischievous smile, she added, "I’m Dawn Summers, Buffy Summers’ sister, yes, the great and modest, repeatedly savior vampire hunter Buffy Summers! Of course, I’m actually not her real sister, I am indeed a key..."

"Alright, Amanda, stop performing," Sarah, amused, pinched the girl’s cheek to cut off her chatter.

"This is Amanda, Amanda Seyfried, who plays my sister in ’Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’" she then formally introduced her to Adrian, "I think you might remember."

"Oh, of course, I’ve always been following this show," Adrian laughed as he extended his hand to the blonde girl in front of him, "Hello, Amanda, it’s nice to meet you."

He certainly remembered, having personally given Amanda’s information to Lin Xilei so she could figure out how to take over her agency rights. He had thought that with his own intervention, the plot of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" would change a lot, and indeed it had changed significantly, but the character of the sister still emerged when the new script was prepared last year, just delayed by one season.

What surprised him even more was that Amanda Seyfried had got the role, which was one of the wonderful things about the world. As Lin Xilei had already made her choice by then, Adrian let her handle Amanda’s agent contract, which also served as a test for her, and as for Amanda, it was up to her to know what’s good for her.

"Your sister is really enthusiastic." Adrian said to Sarah after watching Amanda leave.

"Not bad," Sarah shrugged, then tilted her head to look at him, "You’re not considering making a move on her, are you, Ed?"

"Do I seem like that kind of person?" Adrian rolled his eyes, "Come on, Sarah, look how young she is."

"You were making advances on me when I wasn’t even as old as she is." Sarah snorted lightly, immediately turning to leave, but Adrian pulled her back.

"I’m not pleased with your comments, darling, so tonight, I’m taking you back to Beverly Hills as a punishment!" Adrian said fiercely into her ear.

"I knew it," Sarah pouted, "but today there’s a party at my house, can I just ignore it and leave?"

"You can leave it to someone else to manage, but today, I’m going to teach you a lesson," Adrian declared.

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"...this is a speaker, the sound of the movies comes from here."

"Oh, I love this place, have you watched many movies here?"

"You could say yes, you could say no, who comes here to actually focus on the movies?"

"You didn’t watch the movies attentively?"

"Why are you so obsessed with movies?"

"Because... movie nights were the happiest nights in the orphanage, we’d all rush to the dining hall, all wanting to sit in the front..."

After reading this passage, Charlize immediately put down the script and began to tidy up the stuff in front of her: "Alright, that’s it for now."

"Wait," Kate, who was holding the script, looked up, "There’s a small bit of dialogue left. We can finish it and then you can do your things."

"That won’t work," Charlize shrugged, "I’ve said that if you help me organize these files, I’d spend 20 minutes helping you with the lines, and now the time’s up."

"Not even one more minute?" Kate couldn’t help but roll her eyes.

"No." Charlize was direct in her refusal, "I have a lot of paperwork to handle. Of course, if you’re willing to help me sort some more, I could consider spending another ten minutes on the lines. Honestly..."

She flipped over the script cover to look: "’The Cider House Rules’? This female role really does suit you."

"Really?" Kate flipped through her own script, "Actually, I think this role would suit you well—interested in acting in a movie, Charli?"

Charlize gave her a blank look and buried her head back to continue working on something in her hands. Kate didn’t take it to heart; she glanced at the time on the wall and the dark sky outside before continuing, "Are there still documents to be dealt with now? Do you always have so much to do every day?"

"Of course. Did you think he was just flirting and trying to appease me when he said ’I wouldn’t know what to do without you’?" Charlize snorted, "Although he oversees everything, I’m basically the one handling it all—beyond just the general secretarial duties, there’s a lot more; I’m almost in charge of the whole assistant team because only then can he spend more time on certain matters."

Kate pursed her lips; she could not possibly not know what Charlize meant by "certain matters." Then, seeming to think of something, she hesitated before asking, "Charli, there’s something... maybe you know?"

"What is it?" Charlize, sitting behind a long table doing the most basic sorting work, looked up and asked.

"Um..." Kate hesitated, "It’s just... you know..."

She gestured to her own belly. Charlize thought for a moment, then her expression brightened with realization, and she nodded, "Yes, he’s gotten another woman pregnant again, and this time it’s an 18-year-old girl."

"What?!" Kate’s eyes widened, and her hands clenched involuntarily, a fire of anger seemingly about to ignite fiercely.

"Calm down," Charlize was still so nonchalant, "Like you, it was an accident. You know, Ed may be lecherous, but he never neglects his children."

"You defend him so much," Kate snorted, "why don’t you have one yourself?"

"If I had a child, everything I’m handling would fall apart, and..." Charlize spoke unhurriedly then crossed her arms in front of her, lifting her head to look at Kate, "If I had a boy, he might become a man like his father; if I had a girl, she might meet a man like her father."

Kate frowned, clearly not liking what she was hearing but momentarily unsure of what to respond with.

"Kate, don’t overthink it. I’m not targeting anyone; I’m just voicing some thoughts," Charlize shrugged, "I love Lily, and Ed wouldn’t want his daughter to meet a man like him."

"Maybe I should take Lily and leave here." Kate suddenly sighed.

"Don’t talk nonsense, Kate." Charlize stood up, smiling rarely, and walked over to the liquor cabinet—this was her exclusive room in Adrian’s mansion—and poured two glasses of champagne.

"You know that’s impossible." She handed one glass to Kate, her tone teasing yet inoffensive.

Taking the glass and sipping quietly, Kate then spoke, "What about you, Charli, since you think so, why stay with him for so many years, and still... defend him so fiercely?"

"I’m different from you," Charlize fell silent for a moment, then drained her glass of champagne, "You know what happened in my family, right?"

Kate nodded, then added, "Only a little, not very clearly."

"To protect me, my mother shot my father," Charlize said in a low voice, her face reflecting recollections, "Although the court acquitted my mother, the nightmare has always haunted me. I had to invest my energy in other things—to not think about it, like how to connect with ballet or learn to be an assistant—and for a long time, I was really fond of the feeling marijuana gave... Then, I found a good solution."

A hint of a smile, unnoticeable even to herself, appeared on her lips, prompting Kate to ask, "What is it?"

"It’s..." Charlize’s smile deepened, "making love with Ed—the wild, passionate kind that doesn’t stop until the last minute, which makes one forget everything, especially when holding him..."

Her gaze grew distant, but then she leaned closer to Kate and flashed a mischievous smile, "You don’t really think I dragged you and Sarah along just to please Ed, do you?"

Kate rolled her eyes and turned her head away, her mouth opened but made no sound, though her lips formed that word starting with "B" and ending with "H", but there was no malice intended.

"I still remember the first time I met him," Charlize began again, "It’s been about 8 years, you know what he told me, Kate? He said he was going to build a great empire, that he wanted to stand at the top of the world. Can you imagine? A man in his early twenties, swearing grand promises to a girl almost ten years his junior, and despite being called a miracle worker, only I know the extent of the miracles he created, I’ve seen with my own eyes how his empire was built step by step."

At this, she took a deep breath and relaxed back into her previous demeanor, the gentle smile on her lips growing softer, causing Kate, who turned back around, to also be slightly stunned.

"What I really want to say," Charlize put down her glass and leaned closer to Kate, "is that it’s complicated. There’s love, admiration, attachment, so many emotions tangled together forming an invisible, confusing web, whether it’s you, me, or Sarah, we’re all caught in it. The difference is, Sarah and I have accepted that outcome, I even enjoy it, watching how far he can go, but you always refuse to admit, to face your own heart."

"I just..." Kate paused and attempted to argue but was quickly silenced by Charlize.

Kate widened her eyes again, but didn’t resist at all, letting Charlize slip her tongue into her mouth and play around, even as the glass fell to the table with a light ding because of her loosened grip.

"Ed might not come back tonight from Kansas, since he’s going to Sarah’s party, so..." Charlize said with a smile after a fervent kiss with Kate.

"Wait, Charli, I feel... I feel..." Although this wasn’t the first time Kate got intimate with Charlize, and they had played many lascivious tricks in front of Adrian before, Kate still felt a bit flustered.

"Feel what? Oh, come on, Kate, you really liked it." Charlize teasingly stuck out her tongue, which could easily reach her chin, waved it a few times in the air, her gaze becoming incredibly suggestive, "Whether it was the top or the bottom, I still remember how seductive you were that Christmas night, and besides, Lily is already asleep..."

She had just finished speaking when a "Ouch!" from Lily reached their ears. The two women instantly tensed their bodies, turned their heads, and then saw Adrian walking in with pajama-clad Lily, followed by a giggling Sarah.

"I’ve told you so many times, to keep the door closed when you’re up to something," Adrian said with a teasing tone, embracing his daughter, who shyly covered her face and buried her head in her father’s shoulder.

"We were just running lines," Charlize remarked nonchalantly, showing none of Kate’s embarrassment, "How much did you hear?"

"Who knows, I just got back and saw this little one peeking here," Adrian pinched Lily’s cheek gently.

"Didn’t I tell you to go to sleep?" Kate looked a bit angry as she took Lily from Adrian’s arms.

"I thought I heard daddy come back, so I ran out and then glanced over here," the little one pouted slightly, feeling a bit guilty, and, knowing she might have done something wrong, she didn’t say much more, continuing to cover her face with her hands, sneaking peeks at her dad, mom, and the two aunts through the gaps between her fingers.

"Alright, Kate, since that’s the case, let’s get Lily to bed," Adrian suggested.

That was the only thing left to do. Thankfully, knowing her mom was a bit upset, Lily spoke a few words to her dad and then obediently went to bed. Afterward, although Kate rambled a bit about complaining to Adrian, perhaps it was something Charlize had said earlier or something else, but they were all passionate that night, only getting up the next day when the sun was already high in the sky. Fortunately, the bedroom door was locked, otherwise Lily would surely have snuck in again.

Although it was a weekend back to unwind, Adrian still gave attention to his work, so he specifically chose to come back on Saturday night, then planned to return on Monday night. That way, Monday would give him a full day to handle things. The progress on "Winter’s Bone" was quite good, and this time he needed to discuss matters regarding MCM Records.

A new year had arrived, Britney and Christina were about to release new albums, and the impressively trained Avril was also prepared by Adrian to launch a single. Besides that, an assessment and re-organization of the record company’s assets were required, as once Universal Music was acquired, a new round of adjustments would begin.

However, as Charlize left the office to head to the record company, she seemed dissatisfied with something.

"It’s nothing, just some minor issues, we’ll talk about it later," she said to Adrian when he asked, though her gaze frequently fell on Penelope, who was accompanying him.

Adrian didn’t mind, as Penelope had been showing great enthusiasm towards him, and upon hearing that he was going to the record company, she begged to go too. She said she had once thought of being a singer but had given up due to not having a great singing voice, so she wanted to see how songs were recorded, so he agreed. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, we welcome you to visit qidian.com to cast your recommendation votes and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest motivation.)

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