Yelena rolled her eyes. “I wish we could, but Blake wouldn’t do it no matter what, saying he would easily reject me if we got too close.”
Blake is so chaste, huh… Wait a minute, is he really that chaste? Elspeth suddenly recalled the warm and passionate kiss Blake had planted on her forehead at his concert last time, which surprised her inwardly.
Yelena blinked her eyes with a groveling expression. “Elspeth, can you help me talk him into doing it? You and Blake are close, after all.”
“I got it. I’ll go to him in a moment.”
Keeping her promise, Elspeth went to Blake shortly after that.
Blake was sitting by the lake to keep his mind off things. When he saw Elspeth come over, his face turned red. “What’s the matter?”
“I heard you’re gonna do a kissing scene with Yelena?”
Blake nodded. “Yeah, but I don’t feel like doing it.”
Elspeth didn’t know how to persuade the man into doing it either. After all, anyone would feel nervous and ill at ease at having to kiss a stranger whom they didn’t know very well. She said, “Blake, such a day will come sooner or later. You’re an actor, you know.”
Blake hung his head. “But I don’t feel like doing it for the time being.” He still had a complex that he had yet to overcome. The smiling young lady with wavy hair was still standing in his memory, making him unable to make up his mind no matter what.
“Can you tell me the reason for that?”
Blake stared at Elspeth’s face. His lips parted, and he almost blurted out what was on his mind; he wanted to tell her the truth. However, before he could say anything, Timothy suddenly ran toward them in a great hurry. Seeing that both of them were present, he heaved a sigh of relief, but he still sounded anxious. “Bad news, Elspeth! Someone just came down with food poisoning!”
“What?!” Elspeth’s brows furrowed at once.
Timothy took Elspeth and Blake to the scene of the incident.
Elspeth glanced at the floor, the person lying on which was an actress playing a relatively important supporting role whose part in the show was almost as big as that of the lead supporting actress.
Seeing that Yelena was safe and sound despite her pale face, Elspeth was glad that she didn’t get poisoned.
The next second, however, what Yelena said instantly left her with her heart in her mouth. “Elspeth, I really have no idea what happened. She took a bite of my snack and suddenly collapsed to the floor. They say that she got poisoned and that I poisoned her on purpose for fear that she’d upstage me, but I-I didn’t…”
Elspeth knew Yelena’s character; she wasn’t jealous of anyone, nor would she poison anyone on a whim. From her explanation, it sounded like she had just taken a snack out of her bag and was about to eat it when the female costar came over and took a bite of it. The next instant, the female costar felt unwell and passed out soon afterward with her lips turning black and her face turning pale as if she had been poisoned.
Aiden was standing aside while looking all worried. “What should we do now? Don’t tell me the filming has to be postponed again after all the trouble it took to get it started?” The second supporting actress has to be hospitalized for food poisoning, with the lead actress being the prime suspect at the moment. If word gets out about this, I can forget about filming the show!
Soon afterward, the cops arrived and took Yelena away immediately.
Seeing Yelena’s tearful eyes, Elspeth eventually couldn’t bring herself to leave her alone, so she followed her to the police station.
Naturally, Blake insisted on tagging along out of his concern for Elspeth.
Before leaving the filming set, Elspeth turned to look at Timothy and whispered, “Help me check the surveillance footage.”
Timothy’s eyes flickered slightly. “Roger that.”
Elspeth followed Yelena to the police station to get their statements recorded. Looking at her gorgeous face, the cop couldn’t bring himself to say anything that would put her on the spot, so he began to interrogate Yelena instead. “Since you say you didn’t do it on purpose, do you have any evidence to back that up?”
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