Seven Years a Fool One Day a Queen (Kristine and Colton) novel Chapter 369

Chapter 369

Eliza was honest.

She looked at Calvin and told him clearly, “I did love you.”

A flicker of hope reignited in the ashes of Calvin’s eyes. “Then now-”

Before he could finish, Eliza cut him off.

“But that’s all in the past. I’ve already let it go.”

Those words shoved Calvin right back into the abyss.

She was too calm.

From beginning to end, there wasn’t even the slightest sign of being moved.

In that moment, Calvin truly didn’t know what to do.

He had realized it too late.

No-

far too late.

Back then, when he saw Josh sending flowers to Eliza, he hadn’t been able to control himself and had gone downstairs to her building to find

her.

The congratulations on the tip of his tongue had, under the spur of jealousy, turned into sarcasm.

But Eliza had told him then that she had already repaid everything she owed him.

The instant he saw the redness in her eyes, Calvin had nearly fallen apart.

He had nearly said it.

Eliza, I regret it.

I don’t want revenge anymore.

Can we go back to how we were before?

But everything had come too late.

When she said she had let go, it meant she didn’t love him anymore.

Eliza turned to leave again.

At that moment, Calvin felt it with terrifying clarity-

if he let her go this time, then he and she really would become two parallel lines, never to cross again.

“Eliza.”

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He called out to her again, urgently.

A trace of impatience crept into Eliza’s expression. She frowned and looked at him.

“Then… do you love him?” He meant Vega.

Eliza pressed her lips together. After looking away for a moment, she said. “I fo

“No. Look me in the eyes and answer that again.”

Right now, Calvin was like a drowning mah clutching at his last straw.

Desperate.

“Is that answer really so important?” Eliza asked with a frown.

The muscles in Calvin’s face were drawn tight. “It is.”

“I don’t think so.” Eliza looked at him again. “And I have no obligation to tell you anything about my relationship with my face. Tove t

entitled to know.”

“I hope Mr. Young can maintain the proper grace and sense of boundaries, and not pry into our private matters”

“And besides–if I didn’t love him, why would I get engaged?”

Long after Eliza had left, Calvin remained standing exactly where he was, motionless.

The night deepened. The wind grew colder.

The thin shirt on his body could not block even a fraction of the chill.

But he still stood there without moving.

A moment ago, Eliza had severed his last lifeline with her own hands.

“Babe, what do you think it’s going to be? A boy or a girl?”

Belle had already started looking forward to iL

“If it’s a boy, I’m going to teach him from childhood that love means loyalty, so he doesn’t grow up into a scumbag. After all, his father’s genes clearly aren’t great. I can only hope mine can balance them out.”

“If it’s a girl, I’m going to spoil her rotten. I’ll make sure she has tons and tons of love, and tons and tons of money, so she’ll never get tricked by some bastard.”

“Babe, are you even listening to me?” Belle had been rambling on for ages without getting any response.

When she turned around to look at Eliza, she realized Eliza had actually drifted off into thought.

“Hm?” Eliza looked back at her belatedly.

Belle narrowed her eyes. “You’re acting weird.”

“Am I?” Eliza refused to admit it.

“It’s obvious, okay?” Belle scooted closer, staring straight at her. “How strange. Besides that bastard, there’s actually someone else in this world

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The moment the words left her mouth, Belle’s eyes widened. “Wait. You didn’t run into Calvin, did you?”

Eliza’s expression turned indescribably complicated.

Belle rubbed a hand over her forehead. “I just knew it. Why is he haunting you like a ghost that won’t die?”

Ter’s change the subject.” Eliza very obviously did not want to talk about Calvin.

She was a little allergic to the topic.

Belle didn’t want to bring him up either, so she leaned in and said,

Tve got work in North City tomorrow–something I signed a long time ago. Why don’t you come with me? Consider it a change of scenery.”

“Okay,” Eliza agreed at once.

Mostly because Belle was now under top–level protection.

The two of them flew to North City the next day.

The job Belle had mentioned was an endorsement shoot scheduled almost half a year ago.

“I’m telling you, this brand was the very first endorsement of my acting career, so I take this collaboration really seriously. I canceled everything

else, but not this one.”

“Do they have a shooting script? For the moment, Eliza had taken on the role of Belle’s temporary manager and wanted to make sure there was nothing risky in the shoot.

Belle’s actual manager sent the shooting plan over to Eliza.

She skimmed through it quickly.

The moment she saw that part of the shoot would take place in a swimming pool, her brows drew tight. “No. This script has to be changed.”

North City’s weather was nothing like Washington’s. Even in autumn, it was already cold.

And on top of that, Belle was pregnant. Clearly, this was inappropriate.

Emily looked troubled. “But this shooting plan was finalized a long time ago, and the set’s already been built. Changing it now might not be appropriate.”

Eliza was about to say more, but Belle grabbed her hand.

“It’s fine. I’ll try to get it done in one or two takes. It shouldn’t affect me too much.”

She knew Eliza was worried about her.

But Eliza still wasn’t at ease. She instructed Emily to notify the brand in advance and make absolutely sure the pool water was heated.

She would cover the extra cost herself. The brand didn’t need to pay for it.

Since she put it that way, the brand naturally had no objections.

By the time they arrived at the studio, the staff were already warming the pool

The makeup artist had been waiting, so Belle went straight to makeup first.

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No one knew whether it was the smell of the cosmetics or something else, but Belle suddenly started having morning sickness.

In less than half an hour, she had already run to the restroom three times.

Watching her throw up until her face turned pale, Eliza rubbed her back and said,

“Why don’t we just cancel this job?”

“Don’t. This boss is actually really good to me. She helped me out back then too. You know me–I care a lot about loyalty.” Belle was practically vomiting herself limp and still talking about loyalty.

Eliza was honestly helpless with her.

“Babe, can you go to the west gate and buy me some sour plum drink?”

Pregnant women were like that–their cravings came from nowhere. One minute they wanted this, the next minute that.

Naturally, Eliza wasn’t going to refuse. “I’ll go. Emily can stay here with you.”

“Okay.”

The west gate was pretty far from the studio, and by the time Eliza made the round trip, more than an hour had passed.

When she got back, Belle was already in the pool.

“Cut! That last angle wasn’t right. Let’s do another take, okay?” the director said politely to Lilith, who was standing by the pool.

Lilith still wore that soft, delicate, innocent little–white–flower look on her face.

“I’m sorry, Director. I’ve caused you trouble.”

“No, no, not at all.”

After saying that, the director told the others to reset the set.

During all that time, Belle remained soaking in the pool, and no one told her to get out and wait.

Emily took a towel to the edge of the pool and called to Belle, “Come up first. It’s cold in there.”

Belle was already shivering from the cold and had just started moving toward the edge.

Then the director said, “Belle, this side will be ready in just a minute. Why don’t you wait in the water for now? Otherwise the continuity will be

hard to match.”

“…Alright.”

Belle retreated back to her original mark.

Lilith slowly touched up her makeup, not sparing a single glance for Belle, who was still stuck in the pool.

Eliza’s heart sank. She walked to the side of the pool and tested the water temperature with her hand first.

It was freezing.

Cold enough to bite.

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At that point, Lith’s manager had finally seen through the situation. She sheered, “So you’re with Belle, Let me tell you this gems as belle buye etheted someone you should never have offended. Iter acting career is finished!

Really? Eben smiled instead of getting angry.

The manager took her disbelief as ignorance. “Tll make the call right now. Belle can just wait to be blacklisted by the entire indeery

As she spoke, she dialed Ambrose’s number. “President Quinn, Lili’s being bullied! Get over here right now?”

As if en cue, Lilith flailed in the pool and cried out loudly, “Help! Ambrose, save me!”

The whole set descended into chaos.

By then, both the director and the brand representatives had rushed over, clearly looking for someone to hold accountable

“I don’t care who you are.” the director snapped at Eliza, “but you’ve caused us enormous losses today, and you will compensate for them?”

Elza ignored him and directly placed a call to Nicolas.

Nicolas happened to be out on a golf course at the moment, with nothing better to do. The second he saw Eliza’s name on the screen, he picked up almost instantly, his tone light and teasing.

“Well, this is new. Did the sun rise in the west today? Junior Sister actually remembered to call me?”

Eliza said, “I need a favor.”

Nicolas immediately perked up. “Say the word.”

Eliza lowered her gaze, glanced at the floating shampoo bottles in the pool, and said, “Help me acquire a personal care brand called Zylo. As fast as possible.”

The moment Nicolas heard that, he laughed. “Perfect timing. My company already has a stake in that brand. Easy. Give me five minutes.”

Over here, after hearing Eliza say she was going to acquire the shampoo brand-

the brand manager burst out laughing.

“Cute. The little girl’s got an attitude. Acquire our brand? What is she thinking? Does she think buying a company is like buying a handbag or a lipstick?”

The director sneered from the side as well. “Belle heard we’d added a new spokesperson and started throwing her weight around on set, refusing to cooperate. And now she’s brought someone here to wreck the shoot. She has zero sense of professional responsibility! This is outrageous! An actress with no professional ethics like that should be blacklisted across the entire industry!”

The manager added arrogantly, “I’m calling upper management right now and having the company terminate all cooperation with Belle! And we’ll never work with her again!”

Feeling better at last. Lilith’s manager moved to pull her out of the pool again.

Eliza picked up a bottle of shampoo and hurled it straight at her

Hard

It hit with enough force that the manager screamed.

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