The Billionaire's Pet

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Lotus got up and opened the door for the producer and the rest to come back in the room. She gestured them to come in with sweet smile as Zhu Tao’s gaze followed her movements.

Zion was astonished. He wanted to slap that woman and throw her off a cliff. Not only did she play dirty to throw Natasha Wayleigh out of the movie, she had removed him too. When did she become so wicked? 

He looked at Sonny Vales for an explanation but Sonny kept his hands in his pants pocket and simply shrugged. 

Tan didn’t understand what was happening. He looked from Zion to Sonny to Lotus with confusion. 

Feeling insulted and annoyed Zion said, “I will get back to you on this Sonny! You have plotted with Lotus to kick me out of the movie.” Then he looked at Lotus and said, “I will make sure that you don’t get any other movie apart from this one.” Zion left the office in a huff.

Tan had to succumb to the woman in front of him. He sealed his lips. 

The scriptwriter had come in some time and the session continued for another two hours. Everybody in the room didn’t dare to create any fuss or talk about what just happened. 

Lotus secretary called her again. "Madam, the Hampton family lawyer called again."

“Hmm…” replied Lotus as she got up from her chair. "I need to leave Sonny." 

"Okay, I will let you know if there are more developments," Sonny replied.

Collecting her purse, she walked out. While on her way she called Samatha.

 “I am planning to go and be present when they would read the Will…” said Lotus. 

Samantha was in Lotus' and had started packing to leave when the call came. She stopped packing and became quiet for a moment, shocked at what Lotus just said. The she retaliated, “What? I just gave you lecture and yet you want to go? Let us go to Maldives instead and spend leisure time there!”

Lotus pursed her lips and said, “I can’t. I want to get over with this as soon as possible and then I have to stay here for the new diamond jewelry advertisement I will be signing up tomorrow for.”

“You have got that ad?” asked Samantha excitedly. “So the blackmail for Natasha Wayleigh worked? Hahaha…” she started laughing. 

“Well, Natasha Wayleigh had given up on it I guess,” said Lotus remembering the looks on Natasha's face the previous day. “Sooner or later the ad will fall in my lap. Natasha forgot that she had stepped on my feet this time. She thought that by sleeping with the director she would get the role and hide her relationship with him as well as with that foolish Zion? Ha!”

This kind of bullying was old for her.

The driver drove her to the address where she had to give her screen test for the cold drinks advertisement. As her car was driving in that locality, she saw that it was really one of the topmost real estate areas of the city. Its skyline was dotted with impressive buildings both commercial and residential. She made a mental note of telling her secretary to find a good property for her in this area. Incidentally it was close to the Hampton family Mansion. 

When Lotus got out of the car, she saw the façade of building she was about to enter. It was magnificent and she took out her glasses to see up. There must be more than forty stories in that building. The building was surrounded by neatly manicured gardens. She had heard that most of the buildings in this area were owned by a wealthy family that chose to remain secret because of their connections with underworld in the East Europe. “Hah!” she sneered. “These mafia have so much money to show off! This is how they stay secretly?” 

Being the top actress in the industry she was recognized by one and all. The screen test was just a formality that the Casting Director demanded. 

Lotus noticed that her agent was already there. She was given a copy of the script before the audition so that she could practice her lines. She insisted on getting a copy of the script before auditions so that she could read them and remember the script. Once she learned the lines, she was taken to the camera room for the headshot. The Casting Director was present over there. He knew that Lotus was a natural and so he didn’t have to do much. She was perfect in every sense in front of the camera. She introduced herself and then said every line that was present in the script flawlessly with a lot of relevant emotion. 

Everything was finished within an hour. The Casting Director was very happy with his choice. 

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Somewhere in a palatial mansion in Romania-

Ivan Volkov was about to leave in a day to stay permanently in his country. He had studied in England for his management degree. After that he had gone to take care of the business (or you can say mafia business) in Romania that was forcibly given to him by his twin bratty friends – The Kangs because their grandfather couldn’t handle it alone and because they were already dabbling their hands in too many businesses, which were built by their grandfather and father. 

“Boss, can I speak with you for a moment?” A soft voice of a man who was obviously in fear of the man to whom he was talking to could be heard.  

“No you can’t,” said the man and ended the call after seeing that the time was 2AM. He was partying with two friends in the backyard of the house and was having third peg of whiskey. 

Assistant Peng wondered whether he would get killed if he disturbed his boss’ party or he would get mutilated if he didn’t give that information. He mustered enough courage again and called his boss. 

“I wanted to talk about Miss Lotus,” replied as soon as the phone was picked.

“Assistant Peng, do you want to die?” said Ivan ready to throttle the man because it had become some sort of his mission to not let him have fun. Realization dawned upon him. 

“Wait! What?” Ivan said excitedly and sprang up from his chair. He was so excited but soon he tried to contain his adrenalin and spoke very quietly, in fact too quietly to be easily judged as fake by Assistant Peng, “What is it?”