Chapter Seventy-One
Chapter 71: The Unknown Man
Gael's POV
I stroked Astral's face gently as I gazed at her lovely. She had slept off in my arms, crying for a reason I don't know.
She shifted in her sleep as she changed her sleeping position and she winced with her eyes closed, it must have been the pain coming from the bandage around her head.
My eyes shone in anger when I recalled the intentional attempt to hurt her. I stood up and left the room quietly.
I pulled out my phone when I got to the hallway, I dialed the director's number to know the progress of his investigations.
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Director's POV
My heart skipped a bit when I saw the caller on my phone, it was Mr.Robert.
My investigations about this case on my own had been really difficult, the officers were working and making sure to find out about the culprit.
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“Good afternoon, sir," I greeted fearfully, the three days in prison and the torture were still very fresh in my mind. I excused myself from the shooting area, where I had called for the attention of everyone.
“Has the culprit been apprehended?" He asked, in a deep and authoritative tone. I explained all about my findings and requested some more days.
He hung up abruptly not without threatening me with my career. I rubbed my face and sighed heavily, this issue was getting tougher every day.
The CCTV footage was altered at the time when the incident happened. I went back to where everyone had assembled,
“Are we all here?" I asked in a tired tone, yes, I was tired. The fault was from our carelessness, we couldn't think something like this would happen.
“Senior Kimberly isn't here. She asked me to inform her about what you wanted to discuss with us,” one of the junior actresses said, and I was very mad at such disrespectful behavior.
She was directed to me by my bosses, and I couldn't say no to them, which made me wanna give the female lead role to her until Mr. Robert came, and the role was given back to his wife.
"What sort of disrespect is this?! Where is she?!” I demanded and I was told that she was in her room.
I left the area and walked in an angry steps to her room. Ever since this investigation started, when it comes to talking about it, she will always make herself unavailable.
I became even more suspicious of her when I saw her dressed in black the other day, she told me she went to visit Astral at the hospital.
'How to visit an injured person in a black dress? Not only that, in addition to a nose mask'
I got to her room, I was about to knock on the door when I heard some voices arguing.
“Are you fvcking stupid? How dare you threaten me, motherfvcker!" I recognized this voice to be hers.
“You are in no room to talk back at me, wh*re.." the voice was cut short when I heard a “pah" sound, she slapped the voice's owner.
'But why?’ I thought inwardly and I heard the voice speaking with so much anger, “You fvcking dare!" The voice roared and I heard a breaking sound, followed by Kimberly screaming, “You dare hit my face, huh?!" The voice said through gritted teeth. I couldn't hear Kimberly's loud voice but a low whimpering, I banged on the door loudly.
“Ms. Clark, open this door," I demanded as I continued to bang on it. The inside grew quiet, I couldn't pick up any sound from the inside. I continued to bang on the door.
“Kimberly, open this door ASAP!" My voice was slightly louder, forgetting all the formalities. Whatever that was happening inside, I must know the reason. My fear now is for her to claim she was being bullied when I haven't sorted out the case I am in now. After a while, she opened the door. What I noticed first was her bruised neck, a handprint on her cheeks and her eyes were red as if she had been crying, “Director, sir," she tried to sound cheerful, “Any problem?" She asked but I forcefully entered the room and I heard her gasp, “Director, you can't just enter my room like this," she said, I searched around the room and I found an old man, not that old but his face was rough and his expression showed danger. He looked a bit familiar but I couldn't place it.
“Who are you?" I asked him as I ignored Kimberly, who kept asking me to leave the room.
'Was he bullying her?’ I thought as I waited for the man, “Why should I answer that?" He asked as he hissed. I pulled out my phone to inform the entire crew about what was happening and to meet me there. The man gazed at me dangerously, he yanked my phone and smashed it on the floor, "Are you crazy?!” I yelled angrily and Kimberly gasped.
"Have you gone nuts, fvcker?! He is my director, you bast@rd!” She yelled as she pushed the man, screaming at his face.
“Don't you dare touch me, wh*re?! The very next time you…”
"Keep quiet!” She interrupted frustratedly. I was lost as I kept staring at them, I am sure this man wasn't part of us. The question is, what was he doing here? And they looked to be arguing about something and the names they were calling themselves was very questioning. How to call a popular actress a wh*re? And she called him a fvcker.
The man looked very angry and he cast me aside glance before he strode to leave the room, “Hold on, sir," I said as I went to stand in front of him. We are of the same height and we were both men, no matter the look and expression he throws at me. I can't be a coward.
“This hotel has been booked for 6 months and so, not just anyone can walk in here and bully my crews. Again, who are you?”
"He's my boyfriend,”
"I'm her uncle,”