Chapter 832
Leonardo said, âYou donât have to bust your balls to keep me company, I can find someone else to drink withâ
Ryan retoried âCut the crap, send your address, Iâll be there in no time.â
Leonardo jokingly said, âYou boneheadâ
After Leonardo left, Marcus strolled up to the massive floorâtoâceiling 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 didnât mention where
She was a looker, what if she got wasted and ran into some creep?
Marcus womnes werenât groundless. At that moment, Cornella was already quite sloshed, but she didnât 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, âCornelia, you know what? Steven is a total nutjob!â
Cornelia, flushed and a little hazy, slurred, âNutjob? What weird thing has he done to you?â
Hannah laughed till she cried, âHe doesnât 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.
âWhen Iâm filming, sometimes there are scenes where I have to kiss or get intimate with someone. Thatâs normal, but he wonât let me do those scenes. If a script has those scenes, heâll find a way to cut them. Iâve been with him for so long, Iâve had the best of everything, but Iâve never been happy.â
Cornelia, propping up her flushed face, looked at the complaining Hannah with bleary eyes, âI donât really get men, why would he keep you around if he doesnât love you?â
Hannah downed another drink, âBecause I look like the woman he loves!â
Cornelia said, âIf he has a woman he loves, he shouldnât be bothering you. If heâs still bothering you despite having a woman, it means heâs a player.â
Hannah said, âThe woman he loves doesnât love him. Sheâs married. He canât have her, so he found a standâin.
âOf 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
âJust 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
âI 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.
âI really shouldnât have, as a standâin, fallen for him. I wanted him to like me, to love me. I wished our marriage was more than just a contract.
âSo, 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 didnât want to take birth control anymore. I wanted to have his child.
âThat 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 standâin.