His tone turned cold as he said, "Zara, if you don’t want your nudes plastered all over the internet, you’d better drop this idea."
Perhaps the despair in my eyes unsettled him because he softened slightly. "I said I would marry you, didn’t I? So stop causing trouble."
Marry me, he said? I laughed bitterly, but he remained unmoved and walked away without hesitation.
Days later, the internet exploded with rumors. Everyone kept talking about an actress who slept her way to the top.
When Luca called to deny responsibility, I could actually hear the nervousness in his voice.
I told him calmly, "It’s okay. It doesn’t matter whether you did it or not."
After all, in seven days, I would be out of his life for good.
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I did not need to see the vicious comments online to guess how cruel they must be, so I simply turned off my phone.
My agent, Zoe Lane, scolded furiously, "You’ve been in this industry long enough. How could you still make such a careless mistake and let someone take those kinds of pics?"