Edward was stunned. This was not at all what he planned. Who was the son of a bitch who put this news forward?
Wait. How did this person know Lucas and Yianna met in the cafe? Chills creeped inside his skin as a thought entered unprohibited in his mind. He looked at the staff and voiced out loud his suspicion in front of the rumoured couple.
"Which one of you leaked the news?"
Yianna gasped in shock while he saw Lucas turn black with rage.
The star Edward knew, which was slowly being shown to Yianna, will never get intimidated to something as mundane as this. So why is he flying out in rage? Then, he saw subtle movement. Yianna was slowly edging towards Lucas, as if to subconsciously seek protection and comfort. And it might be that the man was subconsciously offering her the same.
Edward slightly smirked inwardly. Maybe this scandal can lead to something good at the end.
Now returning back to the present where the manager has to deal with something as ugly as leaking the location of a star by one of the staff despite being paid for the silence. He was about to threaten them when the voice of Lucas Star spread across the room with alarmingly high level of anger and warning in them inducing fear on all those who hear it,
"One of you better tell me why our o
presence was leaked or I will make sure you all get sued for violation of privacy."
An expression of alarm filled their faces but impatience filled in Lucas'. He looked at Edward and his eyes said,
'deal with it.'
Sighing with defeat but he nodded his head in confirmation in cleaning this mess up.
Lucas turned back and held a spluttering Yianna's hand and dragged her to the door. For once, the smart man forgot his location and the scenario? Why in this woman's presence no matter when does he lose all sense of intelligence?
He pushed open the cafe glass door and still dragged the poor woman. She kept whisper shouting at him for something but his mind suddenly went slow motion. Right in front of him, a horde of paparazzi with their cameras and mics out where walking to his direction. One of them stopped and shouted at the others pointing at him and Yianna. Then they all came bulldozing at them, questions a d camera flashes hounding them. Lucas froze, not even a muscle moved. He even stopped breathing.
Then he heard someone shouting Lucas again and again underneath all the noise and he looked at a concerned Yianna. Slowly, he was able to take a breath. One breath, then two and then the world around them became clear. Then the sounds and lights came barging on his senses and he winced.
He heard a reporter saying to Yianna, "You look quite young, Ms. Yianna. Did he promise a showbiz career if you warmed his bed?"
Hearing this, anger fillee Lucas but not just him, Yianna as well. For the short interaction he had with her, she is a ticking time bomb with a very sensitive outer Hull. It will explode very easily. And it seemed Yianna is about to do that, either biting this guys head or punching his nose seemed to be like very good probabilities.
Lucas has to salvage the situations somehow but the questions that are being thrown at them are even making a veteran scandal maker like him blow up.
Putting his hand up as a sign of stopping all their useless questions, he answered,
"I do not know where you got these incadent ideas of her taking benefits from sleeping with me. Let me make one thing clear. She is a hard worker and she doesn't need a man to help her earn her living or place in anything."
Lucas has just finished his statement when another reporter started,
"So you haven't denied that you are in a relationship with Ms. Yianna here." A volley of flashes accompanied that question all waiting for the scoop of their career.
Anger filled Lucas's mind. Usually his manager deflects these questions but since he is busy with the double standard staff of the cafe, he is left alone trying to answer the questions in a calm manner, which he has to admit, is not working quite well for the moment.
I pulse suddenly took over him fuelled by anger so there is no space for rationality in his mind now. He pointed at the paparazzi and told them exasperatedly,
"Since none of you want to know the truth but only want the drama, then here it is."
Spatting this statement out loudly, he turned a stunned Yianna to face him, held her head in place and kissed her hard just to spite those reporters.
The young woman tensed, paparazzi tensed, his manager who came out after sorting it out with the cafe staff and saw this scene tensed, even the passersby who was seeing the famous actor for the first time tensed. Only the sound of wind and silence was heard.
Lucas who came out of the kiss didn't yet register the severity of his actions. He looked at the stunned people but when he looked at the stunned yet increasingly pale manager of his with his eyes conveying what did you do did the situation finally sink it.
Then Lucas tensed. What the fuck did he do? Panic rising in him in an alarming rate, he let his body go on autopilot again.
Unknowingly, he grabbed a stunned Yianna's hand and ran to his car and zoomed away.
The people, paparazzi and the manager slowly got out of their reverie and one thought uniformly came out of the mind,
"What the fuck?"