During his concert, Eric had gotten Nadia to pretend to be his girlfriend. Nadia had happily agreed to it.
Once he had gotten Layla to give up on him, they had gone home and resumed their relationship as friends, but they did not tell anyone about this.
"You don't have to worry about me. If I line up the men pursuing me, they would make a line that would stretch from my front gates to the place where I work," said Nadia with a smile. "My plan is to get married when I'm forty."
"It's good that you have a plan."
"Why does it sound like you have shrugged off a huge burden?" Nadia teased.
"No. You're not a burden," Eric immediately said.
Years ago, they had gone on a blind date which had not gone well. They had not even met each other on that date.
However, later on, when Eric had been filming a series in Bridgedale, the team hired a few doctors as consultants as they had a character who was a doctor. He had met Nadia there.
Although Nadia and Eric had never met, they had never deleted each other on social media.
When they met on set, Nadia saw how different Eric was when he was working, so she fell for him.
Eric also cared more for Nadia because of their previous interactions. That was how they became good friends.
"Go play with the children! If you still need me to play along, call me."
"I'm troubling you too much with this. I don't think I will need you to play along with me anymore." After all, Layla was completely ignoring him.
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