King of Hollywood

“Yes, I know it's a little urgent, but I need it now, and if you can't handle it, just say it, and I'll find someone else right away.” Kate said she hung up the phone and made a click, then she took two big breaths and squeezed her fingers before calming down, obviously in a bad mood.

“Mom, where's my breakfast?” Lily probed out of the kitchen and asked.

“Oh... honey, I'm sorry, I forgot.” Realizing what she had left behind, Kate rushed to the kitchen to start looking.

Although she did not move completely into Adrian's mansion, the villa she initially lived in was basically in a semi-detached state, and she came to stay for two or three days a month, so things were not very well stocked here, and there was only one regular servant in charge of the plot, so everything seemed a little messy.

“Deal with it for the time being, honey, you know...” Kate smiled with apologies after pouring a bowl of wheat rings and milk for her daughter, "It'll be fine in a few days, I promise. ”

“Okay.” Lily shrugged, neither complaining nor petting, as if the last three days after she left Dad's house were normal.

“By the way, Lily, I... I'm going to see the house today, and I'll let someone take you to school, okay?” Looking at your daughter for breakfast, Kate hesitated to say so.

She didn't intend to stay here for long, this villa was Adrian's and she was handed it over to her and everything here would make her... very, very sad.

“Mom.” The daughter sighed, "Did you forget, I told you last night that today's school holiday is temporary and I don't have to go to school. ”

“Is that... is that right?” Kate was a little surprised, thinking in her head, and then smiling again, "I'm sorry, Lily, I guess I forgot. After all, the last few days have been very messy. ”

She covered her forehead and sighed. The word "sorry” was too much to say. It didn't feel good at all. I didn't know him... I noticed that my thoughts were about to shift to Adrian again. Kate rubbed her head quickly.

“Let's do this," watched Mama's Lily suddenly push the bowl in front of her and put her arms together on the table, making her look like a little grown-up. “Tell me, why are you and Dad fighting? ”

“Lily?” Kate frowned.

“It's been three days since I left home. Can you tell me what happened?” Lily's not happy with her mouth pounding, "don't tell me. It's an adult thing, I'm 9 years old. Mom, you're hurting me by hiding the truth like this-- tell me, what the hell is going on, I have a new aunt? Or do you have a new sister? ”

Speaking of the last words, her mouth bent. With a smile and curiosity on his face, he seemed to find it very interesting. And Kate was a little stunned. After all, her daughter usually looked nice and sweet in front of herself. When did she ever see such a mature face? It's not that she doesn't care about Lily, it's just that the ghost side of the little guy is left to Dad, and as a mom. Instinctively, she thought her child was perfectly obedient, and even if she saw the pranks she made about her father, she would ignore them with the "this is to exasperate herself," which is no wonder.

“No, no,” Kate sighed back and shook her head, "there was an irreconcilable contradiction between me and... me and your father, so..."

“It's unlikely. Mom.” Lily squeezed her eyes and looked at her mother with a gaze on her face. "After all these years, whatever it is, you should get used to it. What kind of irreconcilable contradiction can there be? ”

Kate was silent and once again taught her daughter to mature, pinching her nose for seconds before she said, "No, Lily, forgive me for not telling you, believe me, this is not the right thing for you. ”

At this point, the only servant of the villa came to the kitchen door: "Ma'am, is there an Emma outside? Watson's lady is looking for you. ”

“Emma?” Kate gave a surprised look, beamed half a dozen times on the seat before reacting, and immediately got up and walked out. She quickly came to the door and opened it and saw little Emma counting her fingers outside bored.

“Hi, Kate, good morning.” The girl greets her naturally, "I thought you'd have to wait a few more minutes to open the door. ”

“I... didn't expect you to come here...” Kate looked at her with some confusion and stutter, "You should go back to England, don't you go to school? ”

“I took time off,” Emma shrugged, "and this happened, and of course I'm staying to see what's going on. ”

Kate frowned, but before she could speak, Lily ran out the back with joy: "Emma! ”

She jumped up and gave little Emma a big hug, and little Emma grinned and held Lily against her face, and Kate couldn't help but wrinkle her eyebrows deeper in her eyes.

“I thought you were back in London. How was home? I heard Aunt Charlie say that Dad was depressed about Mom's departure, but Dad said that nothing had happened and it would be over soon, but Mom just said that there was an irreconcilable contradiction with Dad, I really don't know what they were thinking.” Lily kept asking and couldn't find her mama turning a pretty face next to her.

“Lily...” Kate coughed softly and was about to say something, but Lily turned back one step at a time and shouted in a dissatisfied tone: "Well, Mom, I'm Dad's daughter anyway, I can't even make a phone call, if you want me to have to, please tell me the exact reason! ”

In the face of her serious daughter, Kate had a headache, and it was a good thing Emma Junior plugged it in: "Okay, Lily, let's go inside. I have something to tell Kate. ”

“What is it? Can I know?” Pulling little Emma into the house, Lily walks in and asks, with her eyes lit up, "about the fight between Mom and Dad? You're a lobbyist? ”

“No, Lily, no," Little Emma looked at Kate with a smile, “and I couldn't get involved, and I came to Kate to have a conversation with her about a woman and a woman. ”

“Dialogue between women and women?” Lily blinked her eyes and looked at little Emma and at her mother again, even if she was very young, she was inevitably confused.

And little Emma raised her head and looked at Kate with a gaze: "Are you free? It won't take you long. ”

Kate's eyes wandered back and forth between her daughter and Emma Jr., and her face was a little gloomy, and after a long while she said: "Okay, let's go upstairs to the study. ”

“Why can't we be here?” Lily asked strangely, adding: “May I listen? ”

“No, Lily.” Kate and Emma Jr. said in unison, neatly aligned as if they had been rehearsed before, and not only did Lily open her mouth. Even Kate and little Emma had some accidents.

“Wow, you didn't have an appointment, did you? I'm getting curious.” Lily, hey, smile. Looks like it's between Mom and Emma Jr.

“No, Lily, this is a conversation between me and Kate, and you can never eavesdrop,” Little Emma strangled her first thought. And put your hands up in front of her, "It's important, Lily, so I want you to swear. ”

“So serious," the little guy whispered. But I spread my fingers on little Emma, “Okay, I swear I won't eavesdrop on your conversation. ”

Then she sat honestly on the sofa in the living room and walked upstairs with her mother and little Emma.

“Lily... listening to adult conversations often?” Kate asked as she walked a little swallowed up.

“It doesn't count. She just wants to care what her parents think of her. I used to eavesdrop on Ed talking to you or someone else, Lily, much more mature than you think, Kate.” Little Emma smiled softly.

Kate rolled her eyes and didn't speak any more, so they came to the study, closed the door and locked it, and then she used a pretentious tone to ask, "What are you trying to say, Emma? You volunteered? Nothing to do with him? You love him, you don't want to leave him. And I don't want to see him like this, so you want me to go back? ”

Speaking of which, she smiled softly: “He's always like this, let someone else approach you to lobby you first, and when you slowly relax your guard, he'll just plug right in, grab the softest piece of public relations in your heart, and let you get confused and fall into his hands again. This is ridiculous, he didn't even have the courage to face me...”

“Wait, Kate, wait," Emma, sitting on the couch, laughing and raising her hand, “you seem to have made a mistake. I'm not here to tell you this, I'm here to...”

She lifted her legs and sat upright again, holding her hands in front of her, declaring in a proud tone: "I am here to announce my victory. ”

“Your... victory?” Kate blinked and took seconds to digest the phrase.

“That's right, my victory,” the girl nodded solemnly, "it was almost a decade of competition, and I won, and from now on, I'm Ed's favorite woman! ”

“What are you... What are you talking about?” Kate frowned and grew confused.

Little Emma didn't care at all and said to herself: “From the moment I made up my mind, I knew you were my biggest obstacle, and Ed personally admitted that you were the first woman he had ever met when he was determined to cheer up, and you had a unique place in his heart. Unfortunately, I can only stand behind you, so even if I become his woman, his place in his heart will be after you, and I have always been unhappy with that. ”

“Wait... wait,” Kate waved unconsciously, "what are you talking about, you... you wanted to be Ed's woman a long time ago? ”

“Remember?” Little Emma's smile got deeper, "did I say when you, Ed and I were eating ice cream at the amusement park in London? Though I was just a little big at the time, I still remember clearly what I said that day! You know, Kate, when I need Ed's arms, when I need him to sleep with me, when I need him to lie by my side, when I need him to tease me, he has to leave me because of one of your eyes or a word, and then he makes out with you, you know how unhappy I am? ”

“I... I... you... this is completely different!” Kate's mind was obviously confused.

“Even!” Little Emma raised her voice. “I have to do everything I can to get into Ed's bed. God, I don't want any more faces, but he won't touch me. He knows I'm threatening him. He doesn't want me, so I go play with enough men, and he has to compromise. I know, it's all because of you, because you're earlier than me. Because you watched me grow up and he had to take your feelings into account! ”

She said such a chasm, jumped off the couch, exhaled and excited, and then slowly controlled her emotions.

“Though I have served my purpose for a long time, I know that this is not over, as long as Ed and I haven't told you about him all day. I can't take him away from you!” While Little Emma looked up at Kate, it gave her a sense of comfort, "and I made a lot of preparations for that, including how I would show my tenderness if you were angry with Ed, if you and Ed were in a cold war. How am I going to show my tolerance? But it didn't occur to me at all, I wasted my time because... you surrendered! That's right, you didn't do anything, just leave. That's ridiculous. You think you're showing your attitude? You're surrendering to me. ”

“How can you... how can you...” Kate made a number of pointless gestures, forced herself to press down her angry and confused mind, and then looked at the girl in front of her and breathed heavily, and the color changed several times before she bit the root of her teeth and asked: “So. You come to me and announce you won. ”

“Yes, Ed, I don't have to think about how you feel,” Little Emma looked like she didn't give a shit, “and of course, I have something to tell you besides that. Kate, now that you've made your decision, don't regret it, it's in everyone's interest. ”

“You!” Kate finally got angry and her hands subconsciously pinched her fist.

At this point, the knocking sounded and the knocking continued. Kate had to glare at the girl and walk to the door, and when she opened it, she saw Lily outside, and Kate's face was a little white.

“I'm not eavesdropping, Mom!” Lily quickly raised her hand and said, "I came to knock because someone was coming. ”

“Hi, Kate, are you okay?” Charlize then turned around and looked inside and little Emma waved at her.

“Ed is absolutely right. You won't go back to London. You have to stay here for now.” Charlize said calmly.

“Of course,” Little Emma smiled and looked at Kate again, "Ed knew me as well as I knew him. ”

Hearing this, Kate, who had been calmed down by the presence of her daughter and Charlize, felt at once breathless again. Unfortunately, Lily was in front of her and could not seize even if she had a fire, but could only look at her angrily.

Little Emma still looked like she didn't care, and she came out and patted Charlize's arm, and then she pulled Lily up in an interesting way: “Charlie and your mother must have something to say, let's go down. ”

Lily obviously saw something too, nodded her head with nothing and went downstairs with little Emma.

“Are you all right?” When their backs disappeared, Charlize looked at Kate again, dressed in formal clothes and with short hair, looking very skilled.

“Do I look bad?” As soon as her daughter and little Emma left, Kate leaned against the door frame and reached over her forehead.

“It's much better now,” Charlize said carefully, “when you opened the door earlier, it looked like you were going to punch someone. ”

Kate sighed, didn't speak for a long time, and Charlize didn't speak, so quietly watched her.

“You're not going to the office today?” It wasn't until a moment later that she had the guts to ask.

“I took a leave of absence, which was personally approved by the head office president.” Charlize made a little joke.

Kate pulled the corner of her mouth, kind of laughed, then thought of something to straighten her body up and look at the stairwell: “She won't...”

“No,” Charlize said knowing what she was saying, "Emma is not an ignorant person. Even if she were targeting you now, she would consider Ed's feelings. Lily is Ed's daughter after all. ”

When Kate heard this, she didn't whimper voluntarily, and her body snapped slightly, and Charlize finally reached out and held her in her arms.

“I know you're upset and confused, Kate, it's okay, so Sarah and I haven't called you in three days, and we'd like you to take a moment to calm down, and we've asked Ed to explain it in detail, but... I didn't expect Emma to come to you.” Charlize patted her back and kissed her cheek gently, "there was always something unexpected. ”

“Oh, no, Charlie, I didn't think anything like this would happen," Kate buried on Charlize's shoulder a little choked, "I thought it was Ed's problem, I didn't think Emma... this girl I grew up looking at... God, what the hell is going on...”

“Yes, I was shocked when I first found out, and I don't know why Ed was sighing at...” Charlize sighed, his eyes looking at nobody's study, revealing a complex mystery, "Luckily, Emma and I weren't as close as you, so when we calmed down, we could barely look at the problem objectively. I have to admit Emma is indeed a smart, stubborn and restless girl, especially after a few separate conversations with her, all three points are very obvious, so... I know there are some things she can really do...”