“Please turn that AC off. The temperature isn’t very warm today.” Victor ordered, his tone dominant enough to make the director go and switch it off by himself even without him realizing it.

“Stay here for a minute.” Victor said to Kizy.

“First brother-” Kizy was still speaking when Victor made a call and moved to a corner.

He returned within a minute.

“Go and shoot your scene. Don’t overreact. It’s. Just. A. Sneeze.” Kizy said, feeling embarrassed by having all eyes upon herself.

“You want to stay here till the shoot ends or should I call Jason?” Victor said, his voice intimidating, and for the first time, Kizy meekly obeyed someone since the past week.

In five minutes, Harry wearing a cap and mask, while carrying a black blazer and hot coffee entered the shooting area.

“Here.” He said before passing the blazer and hot coffee to Victor and Kizy respectively.

“Thank you.” Kizy said with guilt, knowing first brother would have made him rush for all of this

“Don’t fall sick if you really want to thank me.” Harry said through his ragged breathing, as running all the way while getting a blazer and hot coffee within five minutes and delivering it was not an easy task.

“Who said I am sick?” Kizy asked while glaring at Victor for giving her away.

If Jason was to know this, then she was definitely in for a good lecture.

“Why would he order hot coffee for you in the middle of a hot sunny day in summer then?” Harry asked, his smirk covered by the mask was visible to Kizy.

Yes, it was summer, that too with a hot sun burning everyone with high temperature and yet Victor had asked the director to turn the AC off for his sweet little second sister with the reason of ‘weather not being very warm today’.

“Please don’t tell this to Jason.” Kizy begged.

And for a moment, both Victor and Harry were happy to have their second sister back to normal.

“On one condition.” Harry said, his usual naughty expression showing that he was definitely going to demand something hard.

“Let’s finish off with this shoot. Then we can discuss.” Kizy said, looking at the director, who didn’t even sit back on his seat since Victor was standing nearby.

“Okay.” Harry said and took a seat next to Kizy, curious to see the shoot.

Victor just shook his head at Harry’s extra excited behavior before wearing the new blazer and going back towards the shooting area.

All this while, Nicole had been standing on her spot, catching every little action of Victor.

She had seen how his expressions went from shock, panic, realization and lastly a mixture of anger and worry by the time he wrapped Kizy in his blazer.

This was the first time when she had seen the always calm and collected Victor, to get worried. But what was more surprising was his angry and dominant aura which he had unknowingly released while ordering the director.

She had never seen this bossy and masculine side of Victor that made her heart flutter, something that had never happened to her.

She was still dazedly looking at Victor when he came back to his spot.

“Should we restart the act or just resume from where we left?” Victor asked while looking at the director.

“Resume the ongoing scene.” Director said in a mild voice.

With that the director signaled them to resume the scene again.

“I will definitely attend the party then.” Victor said.

With that, Nicole was supposed to nod and finally leave. But she was completely immersed in her own thoughts, standing there unmoving.

“Cut.” The director said after five seconds had passed and finally Nicole moved.

“Uhhh. Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention.” Nicole said, her cheeks turning a little red.

“Let’s resume from the dialogue once again.” Victor said and the director gave a thumbs up, indicating he was okay with it.

With that Victor repeated the same dialogue again.

‘How many faces does this man have? Last time we met while rescuing Evie, he was cold in the beginning. Then he was very gentle when Evie was present. Even now, he was completely calm till Kizy sneezed. But suddenly he was so worried and angry that he seemed like an entirely different person. What is he exactly hiding?’ Nicole thought, looking at Victor.

“Nicole. Nicole! NICOLE!!!” This time Kizy shouted to fetch her back the present.

“Huhh?” Was the only thing Nicole managed to speak.

“Where are you zoning out? Why are you still standing there? You just have to nod and leave. That’s it.” Kizy said in a little shocked voice, not knowing why suddenly Nicole was performing like this.

“Sorry sorry. This won’t happen again.” Nicole said, this time turning completely red after embarrassing herself this way.

“Here.” She heard Victor say and turned towards him.

Victor opened the bottle cap before passing it to Nicole, knowing she must be shocked because of his behavior moments ago.

Nicole took the bottle before gulping half of it down her throat.

“Thank you. I am ready now.” Nicole said.

‘Come on Nicole! You can do it. Just concentrate and you will perform well.’ Nicole motivated herself and finally she was able to nod and leave.

Victor kept standing there looking at the closed door even when Nicole was gone, as if thinking about something, all this while his back facing the camera.

He then turned to the side, the cameraman changing his angle as well to prevent capturing Victor’s face.

Victor was now looking at a glass window, through which the entire city was visible. He then looked downwards and smiled.

The scene ended here.

For the next scene, the stage was changed with a backdrop showing a large mansion.

Both Nicole and Victor were asked to change once again. As earlier, Nicole had bought her own outfit while Victor wore the one given by the shooting team.

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– Kizy