Although she knew that Lina would not urge her to pay back the money, she owed Lina enough already and could not keep on accumulating her debt.
Over and over, Grace knelt, groveled, and got up... This repeated again and again.
The other extras became increasingly agitated as well as they knelt over and over again. Some people even shouted for more money and that they should not trouble people like that.
The director saw the extras' mood getting worse and worse, so he sent the assistant director over to ask Evelyn for her opinion.
Seeing this, Evelyn pretended to think before saying, “How about this? I think she did a great job. She has a good posture, and her timing is right. Why doesn't she give a demonstration to the other extras so that the others can watch and learn? Once they’ve observed how to do it correctly, they can practice again. It’ll save us the effort.”
And, of course, Evelyn was referring to Grace when she said this.
"However, I don't know whether this extra is willing to demonstrate for everyone. After all, she will be more tired than the others."
Evelyn looked like she had Grace’s best interest at heart.
"Why not? There's no problem if we give her more money for it." The assistant director was overjoyed. After all, it was better to trouble one extra than the entire crew of extras.
If so many extras went on strike, not only would it be difficult to find so many replacements at once, but it was also easy to cause a stir.
It was much easier to get one person to kneel and grovel.
The assistant director asked Grace to come forward and asked her to demonstrate for an extra 200 dollars. If she was unwilling to do it, she would be considered as breaching the contract. That would mean that she would have to leave with no money.
And, no doubt, this would prevent her from getting other bookings.
Grace—not for the first time—was forced to examine her new life.
If she’d had her wolf, Eva would be rumbling beneath her skin and challenging Evelyn outright.
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