Love Me Or Leave Me

CHAPTER 122

“Let’s skip the veggies. It seems like no place in the Aotori shooting base has good veggies,” Charlie chuckled, trying to reject.

As he spoke, he stood up and said, “Why don’t you take the next few days to really delve into the script, Stacey? I’ve gone through The Empress, and it’s pretty solid. I think it’ll turn out well when filmed.”

“Charlie, you can’t be so picky about food.” Stacey laughed, reminding him gently.

Charlie looked at his sister with a melancholic expression.

“Balanced nutrition is key to good health,” Stacey added, exasperated.

“Don’t worry, I take my vitamins regularly. I’m not lacking in nutrition.” Charlie waved his hand dismissively, sounding like an old man set in his ways.

After spending a little more time in Stacey’s room, Charlie left.

Lynn also took her leave because there was nothing more to do.

Stacey was the only one left in the room.

She took out her script and began to memorize her lines.

However, she hadn’t been studying for long when her phone rang. She picked up the phone and looked at it, and she found that it was an unknown number.

Stacey recently became wary of unfamiliar numbers because Theodore had called her repeatedly using new numbers.

After a moment’s hesitation, she decided to answer the call.

She and Theodore were divorced now, and she had no reason to fear him.

More importantly, she was working now, so this call could be from someone in the crew wanting to discuss work.

But once she picked up and Theodore’s voice came through, she instinctively hung up and blocked the number.

It wasn’t work–related at all. It was just Theodore bothering her again.

After ending the call, Stacey felt a bit unsettled. She closed her eyes, took a few

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It was all in the past now.

There was already no Rebecca Mitchell in this world. From now on, she was only Stacey Carter. She no longer needed to let Theodore affect her.

Soon, another unknown number called..

Stacey didn’t answer. She simply blocked it, handling it all in one go.

In Hivalis, Theodore made call after call, only to be hung up on each time. When he tried again, he found himself blocked. His expression darkened.

He realized that Rebecca didn’t want anything to do with him anymore.

Why? Was it because he had hurt her too deeply in the past?

In the middle of the night, Theodore stood by the window of his hotel room, memories flooding his mind. He recalled Rebecca’s pain, her breakdowns, and the times he had driven her to despair.

He had indeed done many things that had caused her immense sorrow.

Suddenly, his phone rang. Theodore looked at the caller ID. It was Jenny.

His brows furrowed in annoyance, but thinking about the ongoing projects with the Smith family, he reluctantly answered.

Back in Aotori City, at the shooting base, after blocking several numbers, Stacey’s phone finally went silent. There were no more calls from unknown numbers.

She waited, feeling a sense of peace return. Once calmed, she picked up her script and resumed memorizing her lines.

But just after two sentences, her phone rang again.

Feeling irritated, Stacey frowned, picked up her phone, and turned it off.

However, as she pressed the power button, it dawned on her that the caller ID seemed familiar. It looked like it was her mother.

Her heart raced. She patiently waited for the phone to shut down, then quickly powered it back on.

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After the phone rebooted, she checked the call log. Sure enough, she hadn’t been mistaken. The last call was indeed from her mother.

Thinking of her mother, Stacey was delighted. She quickly called her back via video.

The call connected almost immediately, and she was greeted by the close–up of a baby’s face. It was Lily.

“Mom,” Lily said, holding the phone. Her voice was sweet and joyous as she looked at her.mother on the screen.

“Yes, it’s Mom.” Stacey responded to her daughter with a smile.

Soon, the phone was back in Debra’s hands, and her face appeared on the screen.

“Mom,” Stacey smiled and greeted softly.

“Hey. Debra responded happily, then quickly asked, “why did you hang up earlier? I tried calling back but couldn’t get through.”

Stacey thought for a moment before explaining, “Theodore called me multiple times from unknown numbers. I didn’t want to answer, so I kept hanging up and blocking them. But he had so many numbers and kept calling, so I turned off my phone. I didn’t realize it was from you.”

Hearing that Theodore was still bothering her daughter, Debra’s face darkened. with displeasure.

“Becky, don’t worry about him. You’re divorced now and even got the divorce license. As long as you ignore him, he can do nothing to you,” Debra reminded her.

Stacey nodded. “Yes, I know.”

Debra looked at her daughter and added, “I’ll ask your father to find a way to create trouble for the Edwards family in business. That should keep them too busy to bother you.”

Stacey felt a surge of gratitude towards her parents.

“Thank you, Mom. But if doing that doesn’t benefit the Carters, don’t waste your efforts. It’s not worth it,” she advised.

For the rest of her life, she wanted her family to thrive and not be burdened by the

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Sensing her daughter’s concern, Debra became cheerful. She smiled and said, “Don’t worry. Your father is smart. He won’t do anything that’s a waste of effort. If he’s going to target the Edwards family, it will be in a way that benefits us. You don’t need to worry.”

Suddenly, Stacey remembered the vast business empire her family controlled and how the money seemed endless no matter how much her mother spent. Maybe her mother was right?

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Her father had managed the business so well that he surely wouldn’t let the Edwards family take advantage of them.

With this realization, Stacey’s worries eased. She nodded happily. “Okay.”

“Mom.” As they talked, Kev squeezed his head into the frame, joyfully calling out to his mother with his sweet, baby voice.

He even reached out his chubby little hands, trying to grab the screen as if to touch his mother.

Seeing her baby, Stacey couldn’t resist reaching out her hand, almost as if she could grasp his soft little hands.

“Becky, how about I bring the kids to the shooting base in a few days?” Debra suggested casually, and her eyes filled with a smile. “I don’t have much to do at home anyway, and the kids really miss you!”

Stacey hesitated. “Wouldn’t it be too tiring for you to keep following me around?”

Debra raised an eyebrow. “Why would it be tiring? The places where the crew shoots usually have nice scenery. I can take Lily and Kev along as if we’re traveling. Why not?”