My Accidental Husband Is My Revenge Partner - Chapter 37

It Was An Act
“I might have an idea who was behind this,” Kace suddenly spoke and everyone’s attention went to him. “It wasMichelle.”

Michelle who was trying her best not to laugh out loud at seeing Selene’s state immediately stiffened. Her face went pale when Kace called her name as everyone’s gaze was on her.

“What nonsense are you talking about?” She questioned Kace, high on alert at his accusation even though he was right. “I would never do that to Selene, Kace. She’s my friend.”

Kace sighed, his eyes focused on Selene’s ankle as he tried to massage it for her. He could see that the ankle wasn’t completely bent at an odd angle which was good news. But the pain was still there.

“Are you sure about that?” Kace questioned her. Director Jeunes and the rest kept quiet, wanting to see where this would lead. Director Jeunes wanted to find out immediately who was behind the accident that happened to his lead actress, Selene.

“What nonsense are you trying to say here, Kace? Selene’s my friend,” Michelle repeated, hoping that Kace would just drop the topic but she knew that was impossible to achieve. She tried to maintain her pure reputation in front of everyone by looking as pitiful as possible. She forced some tears out of her eyes as she added, “Why would I even do that to Selene?”

Kace turned to look at her, a smirk on his lips as if anticipating that question since he started accusing her.

“There are many reasons why you would do this to Selene,” he started. “For example; when she got the role but you didn’t? You are an A-list celebrity, Michelle, so it must have been a huge slap on your face while a noob like Selene got the biggest role in the movie and you didn’t.” He paused, letting the information sink into her ears and the ears of everyone else.

“Plus what happened yesterday,” he added. “She slapped you when it wasn’t even in the script. I’m sure that must have hurt your ego. So you decided to get revenge by doing something with the shoes.”

Michelle’s eyes opened wide in shock. She had never expected Kace to analyze everything so well and end at the last bus stop. Michelle felt as if her cupboard had just been opened, and all her secrets had been let out.

She thought she had done everything so well that nobody would pin any kind of blame on her. But she should have expected Kace to always be around her and open up her closet filled with secrets.

Michelle stared around her and found all the crew and cast looking at her with confusion as they waited for her to defend herself or say something at least.

All that Kace had said made sense and she hadn’t imagined that he would come to Selene’s rescue, else she would have already practiced earlier on how she was going to reply to his accusation.

“I didn’t do anything,” she said, her voice barely audible since it was muffled by her silent cries. “Yesterday, Selene came to me and apologized for the slap and I forgave her immediately. I’m not the kind of person to hold a grudge against people,” she added, tears streaming down her eyes as she hoped they would believe her, especially director Jeunes.

If he doesn’t believe her, then that would be the end of her participation in the movie. People are going to tweet about what she did and her fans are going to hate her for it. So she internally prayed that Director Jeunes would believe her.

“Michelle is not the one behind this,” Selene suddenly spoke and everyone’s eyes were on her. “We are friends and friends can’t possibly do such a thing to another friend,” she added.

Kace stared at her, wondering why she would say such a thing. He could see through Michelle’s lies and fake cries but he couldn’t understand what was going on in Selene’s mind.

“And Natalie is not the one at fault either. It was just a simple mistake. The shoes do look old and the wood probably gave up holding my weight so it broke,” she continued.

She stared at director Jeunes.

“No one was at fault here, it was just the bad condition of the wood the shoes were made with.”

Everyone was shocked but no one was more shocked than Michelle.

‘Has she always been this stupid?’ Michelle wondered.

But she was also glad that Selene was able to cover up for her. If any second had been wasted, she was sure director Jeunes would have fired her from participating in the movie.

“What a beautiful friendship they have,” said one person.

“Even though she was in pain, she managed to bite through it so that she could save her friend.”

People started murmuring around them, admiring how their relationship was.

“I see,” director Jeunes suddenly spoke. “If that’s the case then I think I should be yelling at whoever made these shoes. He’s so incompetent,” he added.

His eyes went to Natalie who was crying her eyes out, and apologized.

“I’m sorry for yelling at you earlier, Natalie.”

Director Jeunes might be a renowned man but he knew when to apologize whenever he was wrong.

“It’s no problem, sir,” she nodded in understanding, wiping her tears. “But I think we should call a doctor immediately for Ms. Selene,” she added.

“No it’s okay,” said Selene. “It still hurts but I think I only need to put ice on it in case it swells.”

“Please take care of yourself, Selene. You can have the rest of the day to recover,” said director Jeunes.

After that, Kace helped Selene up and took her to the car. Michelle was about to follow them but was immediately stopped by Kace.

As soon as they entered the car, Selene stared at Kace as she asked with a grin stretched on her lips, “So, how was my acting?”