Chapter 887 - 886: Colluding for Evil (3)

Chapter 887: Chapter 886: Colluding for Evil (3)

This was blatant, naked seduction; most men, hearing a woman ask them for a night like that, would probably be unable to hold themselves back.

But the man on the other end of the line didn’t really react; even his tone stayed the same. "I don’t have time today. Go wait for me at the villa tomorrow night."

"What do you mean you don’t have time? Didn’t you skip the office today? Don’t tell me you spent the whole day with that woman?" Rhonda pretended to complain, but in truth she was acting coquettish. "Honey, that woman doesn’t appreciate how good you are. She keeps giving you attitude—why are you wronging yourself like this? Seeing you like this, my heart aches."

"Shut up. She’s not someone you get to badmouth. Go wait for me at the villa tomorrow night." The man on the other end finished speaking and hung up directly without waiting for Rhonda’s response.

Listening to the beeps coming from the phone, Rhonda gritted her teeth in hatred, her left hand clenching into a tight fist, veins bulging on the back of her hand.

Wesley Caldwell, one day I’ll make you willingly welcome me through the front doors of The Caldwell Family!

Rhonda’s face darkened, then she suddenly let out a cold laugh. "Laura Locke, if you knew the truth, would you still stay in The Caldwell Family? I really am looking forward to it. But before that, I still have to get rid of some people in my way. Let your two daughters tear each other apart first."

After muttering to herself, Rhonda pulled out her phone again and dialed her agent. "Find out immediately exactly when and where Kingston Group’s diamond brand MV is being shot in The Azure Isles. I want concrete information."

The agent didn’t understand why Rhonda wanted this checked, but she knew what Rhonda was capable of, so she agreed at once. "Okay, I’ll have someone look into it right away. Rhonda, how are things on your side? No one giving you trouble, right?"

"Just catching up with an old friend—what kind of trouble could that be? You guys wait for me in the car, I’m coming down now." Hanging up, Rhonda walked out of the teahouse.

Sure enough, that very night the internet exploded with news that Rhonda might be about to star in Director Ford’s new film. This kind of speculative gossip without any real substance usually doesn’t get an official response and tends to die down after a bit of noise.

But Rhonda’s studio, whether by "slipping finger" or not, actually liked that post. Even though they unliked it within a few seconds, some nosy netizens still took screenshots and claimed that Rhonda’s side seemed to be responding to the rumor.

Then a few big influencer accounts started reposting it, and before long, the topic got hyped all the way into the top ten trending searches.

Bella Acker saw these posts, let out a derisive snort, and scrolled past without giving them a second thought.

Three days later, she and Judy Zimmerman boarded a plane to The Azure Isles with the filming crew and Kingston staff to shoot the promotional MV for Kingston Group’s diamond brand.

In the business class cabin, Bella Acker was holding her phone when she saw a certain someone walking over at an unhurried pace and sitting down in the empty seat beside her. She stared in a daze for a moment before saying, "President Sinclair, you’re going to supervise the MV shoot too?"

"Mm. The company attaches great importance to developing this diamond brand," Damian Sinclair said.

"No, but—you didn’t tell me before that you’d be going too." Bella had never imagined that Damian would personally show up to oversee a simple MV shoot; no matter how she thought about it, it felt bizarre.

"That’s because you never asked me," Damian said, signaling a flight attendant for two glasses of juice and handing one to her.

Bella thought it over carefully and realized she really had never asked that question. Still, for a big-shot CEO, who would randomly go watch an MV shoot for no reason?