Chapter 4
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“Let it go, my love. She is not worth it. This is her true nature, a vile woman. Do not stoop to her level, you have a career to protect unlike her.”
Laurie-Ann’s stomach tightened on hearing that. His words stung harder than any slap either of them was going to give. The worst part was that he was right. She had given up her career, and what she loved for him, and he had just thrown it back in her face.
“You’re right. She is just trying to jeopardize us.” Jane said. “You’ll be hearing from our lawyers.”
Laurie-Ann let out a sarcastic laugh. “Good bye, Ethan, I wish you the life you deserve.” She sneered, then turned around, and walked away without a second thought.
Laurie-Ann took a taxi to her godmother’s, fidgeting as they drove.
She should have left the day she found out about Ethan’s intentions, but she was too emotionally raw to be alone. Her mother had died only a week before, and she needed to hold on to someone in her life. It was too bad that the only person she loved did not feel the same way.
As she stepped out of the taxi, she made her way inside her god mother’s mansion, tears blaring from her vision as the body guard led her up the stairs of the front door.
She knocked, her heart beating widely against her rib cage, the tears threatening to burst out from her tear ducts.
The door suddenly opened, and Vivian appeared with a bright smile on her face, and a glass of wine in her hand. She was wearing a gold robe.
“I was wondering where on earth you were. I came back home thirty minutes ago, and you weren’t-“ Her smile faded when she saw the look in Laurie-Ann’s eyes.
“What’s wrong, sweetheart?” she asked, and as if the words were the push she needed, she burst into full blown tears. He is leaving me.
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“I can’t believe you stayed with him after he told you the truth,” Vivian said, pacing her kitchen twenty minutes later.
Laurie-Ann had just told her everything that has been happening between her, and Ethan over the last two weeks, and she was fuming.
“I guess I didn’t want to believe he had lied to me about loving me.” She admitted, shivering from the betrayal
Vivian sighed. She couldn’t pretend to understand her goddaughter’s thought process, but she was glad she had come to her senses.
“I loved him, Aunt Vivian. I really did.” She said, wrapping her hands around her body, and hugging herself.
“We need to sue him. I'll get a smear campaign running against him. I will not allow this…this insanity.”
“No, no.” Laurie-Ann’s head snapped up. “ I want a peaceful divorce. I just want to put this behind me, and focus on my dream.”
“But…” Vivian protested. She had never liked Ethan for her. Not because she thought she was a bad man, but because she saw right through his bullshit when her goddaughter was too in love. She had been married three times, so she knew these things.
“No, Aunt Vivian. If I am going to pursue a career in acting, I don’t need any scandal following me. I just want to forget about all of this, and move on with my life.”
Vivian stared at her god daughter for a long while before letting out a sigh.
“Fine. I will stay out of it, but begrudgingly, and do not expect me to be nice to him.”
Laurie-Ann chuckled. “Promise.”
“Good.”
“So, is that role perhaps still open?” Laurie-Ann asked, and Vivian grinned wide.
“I’d open it even if it wasn’t.”
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