Zoe instinctively closed her eyes when Wynn blew hard at her eyes.
"Feel better?" Wynn asked, slightly anxious.
Zoe blinked her eyes cautiously. She felt like the foreign object was gone.
As the corners of her lips lifted in a bright smile, she suddenly looked in the direction of the door.
Wynn followed the direction of Zoe's gaze and looked over as well.
That was when both of them saw the director and judges standing at the door of the rehearsal room.
Wynn and Zoe immediately widened the gap between them.
There was nothing between them, but their sudden pulling apart made it look like they had a guilty conscience and prime for a misunderstanding to occur.
The director joked, "Zoe and Wynn are getting along really well, aren't they?"
"We're just rehearsing the scene," Wynn explained in a hurry.
"Candice isn't here?" Jay changed the topic.
He directed the question at Wynn and ignored Zoe.
Zoe thought that Jay would have gone home to sleep after being trapped the entire night in this building. What was more, he had treated everyone to breakfast and should be done with solidifying his caring and considerate persona. What was he doing still sticking around?
Since when was Jay so proactive? In the past, aside from the movies he chose to focus on, he had no intentions of expanding into other aspects of the industry.
Could it be that since the Levines were no longer in the business circle, Jay saw sense in being more on the ground?
Just like her.
Now that she had returned to the entertainment circle, she found herself very capable of sucking up to people too.
"Candice is on her way. There's a traffic jam," Zoe explained.
The director could tell that Jay was upset.
Jay had always been easy-going, but for some reason, he seemed really miffed this time.
He supposed it must be that Jay was more serious during filming, as a director himself.
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