The police sorted out the events of the past few days involving Hollie and Jane, and discovered that Jaiden was also involved.
Piece by piece, the motives of Jaiden’s crimes became more apparent.
Meanwhile, at Star Entertainment.
Jane had been gone for several days, and Star Entertainment gradually turned into a stagnant pool without Jane’s guidance. The employees didn’t know what work to do.
April also couldn’t sit still. Her family had been pressuring her for money, and now she had no roles to film, which meant no income.
She sat on the couch, lost in thought for a while, when suddenly her phone rang.
It was Zaid Berger, whom April had contacted earlier. With Jane away, she had to go out and find resources on her own.
After searching around without an agent or company guiding her, only Zaid took the initiative to contact her.
However, Zaid appeared to be a potbellied man wearing glasses, giving off a sleazy vibe.
But April had done some research on Zaid online and found that the movies he produced usually made huge profits, and he hired A-list actors.
April was puzzled. She was just a small-time star, so she didn’t understand why Zaid was interested in her.
But given the current situation, she had no choice but to try her luck.
Soon, April tidied up and went to the location specified by Zaid to wait for him.
Interestingly enough, the place Zaid had arranged was not a restaurant but a large bar. As April entered, she was startled by the lively crowd inside.
“Miss Sutton.”
Soon, Zaid’s voice came from behind her. April turned around nervously and saw Zaid swaying a glass in his hand, clearly a little drunk.
“Miss Sutton, you finally came. I’ve been waiting for you.”
Zaid displayed a sinister smile, and his greasy hand was about to reach out for April’s shoulder. April swallowed nervously and instinctively dodged.
“Mr. Berger, you’re drunk. Let’s talk about whatever you want next time.”
Seeing that she evaded his touch, Zaid immediately showed a dissatisfied expression. “What? Miss Sutton, are you disgusted by me? You don’t want to cooperate with me?”
Noticing Zaid’s displeasure, April suppressed her inner fear and shook her head. “Why would you say that? I’m thrilled to have the opportunity.”
“Hmph.”
Zaid snorted and then placed his hand on April’s shoulder, his body reeking of alcohol and causing April to instinctively furrow her brow at the scent.
The surrounding noise was too loud, which made April feel uncomfortable.
This was her first time stepping into a place like this.
Zaid looked around and noticed that some people in the crowd were losing control of their emotions, with one person even taking off their clothes and dancing on stage.
April dared not look over, tightly closing her eyes. This scene actually made Zaid laugh.
“Don’t pretend to be innocent. It’s a bit noisy here, come with me.”
April felt a bit dissatisfied in her heart, but she still nodded on the surface, thinking that Zaid was leaving this place. However, to her surprise, he grabbed her arm and forcefully pulled her towards the interior of the bar.
Along the way, April looked at all kinds of people and was filled with fear for this place.
While Zaid wasn’t paying attention, April secretly sent a text message to Jane, begging her to come and rescue her quickly.
Soon, Zaid stopped with her in a small room and then directly grabbed April into the room.
April’s arm was grabbed so hard that it hurt, and two bright red marks appeared on the surface.
“Mr. Berger…”
April saw Zaid’s drunken appearance, and his expression became increasingly lewd, which made her even more afraid.
“Come over and sit next to me.”
Zaid waved to April and patted the seat next to him.
April’s feet felt as if they were glued to the ground, and no matter how much Zaid shouted at her, she dared not take a single step forward.
Intuition tole her that it was very dangerous here.
“I called you to come over.”
Who knew that the next second, Zaid suddenly shouted loudly, scaring April so much that she almost cried and had to sit down next to Zaid.
“This is being well-behaved. Only well-behaved people will become famous.”
Zaid’s voice suddenly softened again, and he gently stroked April’s arm while continuously sniffing her body, with a look of great enjoyment.
“Don’t do this…”
April was scared silly by Zaid’s appearance and wanted to retreat, but she was grabbed by Zaid and couldn’t escape.
“Where do you want to go?”
Zaid’s face twisted into a fierce expression as he sniffed around April, trying to detect her scent.
“Let’s talk another day, I suddenly remembered there are some things I need to attend to at work.”
April wanted to find an excuse to slip away, but just as she got up, she was caught by Zaid.
“Since you’re already here, don’t even think about leaving.”
In the next moment, Zaid had April pinned to the bed, his desire evident in his eyes.
“Let go of me!”
April struggled with all her might, but she couldn’t resist the man’s strength.
“Don’t pretend to be coy. Let’s see if you’re still so coy in a little bit.”
As Zaid’s large and greasy face came closer, April instinctively tried to dodge to the side.
Just as Zaid was about to make his move, the door behind him suddenly burst open and in the next moment, April felt the man in front of her being pushed away.
She opened her eyes wide and felt like she had been saved when she saw Marco standing there. She instinctively hid behind him.
“What are you doing? You punk!”
Zaid suddenly exploded with anger and tried to grab a bottle of alcohol to smash over Marco’s head but was pushed away by him instead.
“Get lost.”
He held April tightly behind him; he had seen how painful it was for this fat man to forcibly hold her down just moments ago.
Zaid saw that there were several people that Marco brought with him standing behind them and could only swallow this insult before pointing at Marco then leaving the room.
“Waaah…”
When Zaid left, April couldn’t hold back anymore and cried right in front of Marco.
Marco didn’t know what else he could do; he stood there helplessly with his hand hanging awkwardly in mid-air.
He took April back home where they found out Jane wasn’t home yet; they hadn’t been able reach Jane on their way over so they went straight there themselves.
However, unlike usual times when Jane would answer their knock at her door herself – this time it was Patrick who answered instead.
“What happened?”
Patrick raised an eyebrow seeing how distraught April looked while wearing clothes – letting them both into their house.
“Where is Jane? We need to talk with her about something,” said Marco as he comforted April’s emotions along their way inside.
“She went abroad for business negotiations didn’t she?”