"I've been busy with these things every day and seldom have time to relax. Let's dance together."
Jonas looked at Melinda with a smile, which seldom appeared on his face. Many people felt that they
were dazzled when they saw his tenderness.
Emily was like a third wheel. She clenched her teeth in anger as she saw their interaction.
Half of Melinda's body was leaning on Jonas, and now the half-bent man stood in front of her. The
smile in his eyes made her feel that she was the happiest person in the world.
"Okay." Melinda put her hand on the hand of Jonas. The two of them smiled happily, and his hands
carefully fell on the waist of her and led her to the dance floor in front of them.
Both of them entered the hall, which attracted many people's attention. Many people left a space for
them to dance. Melinda seldom danced, and so did Jonas. They had danced no more than three times,
but they had an indescribable tacit understanding.
It seemed that they knew what to do as long as the other was there.
Emily stood in the same place and was like a joke. Everyone paid attention to the two dancing people
on the dancing floor, and their eyes fell on her, too.
Their sympathy and disdain were like branded in Emily's heart which made her feel so depressed.
The elegant smile on her face was gone, and the people surrounding her dispersed, avoiding her like a
plague.
Emily had been to the upper class for a long time, but she didn't know how to feel when she was the
one in the center of the vortex.
She wanted to give vent to it, but she couldn't. She wanted to hide her feelings, but she felt
uncomfortable.
Because Melinda was pregnant, the music tonight was soothing. Even the dancing steps gave out a
sense of ease and elegance.
However, Melinda, one of the protagonists in these people's eyes, began to drift away.
The tacit dance steps of the beginning were gone. She stepped on the shoes of Jonas now and then.
Fortunately, she was not wearing high-heeled shoes today. Otherwise, the consequences could be
imagined.
"What's wrong? Did Emily say something to you?" Jonas asked anxiously as his smile faded.
Just now, when he saw Emily standing next to Melinda, he began to worry that she would make up
stories again.
Just now, seeing that Melinda looked normal, he felt secretly relieved. Now he realized that perhaps it
was not as simple as he thought.
Looking at his nervous appearance, Melinda couldn't help smiling. She hid all her worries in the bottom
of her heart and gave a smile to Jonas.
"It's okay. I don't trust her now. Not even a punctuation," Melinda joked. She bowed her head and
looked down at her toes, without looking at Jonas in the eyes.
Melinda didn't want to bother Jonas with such a trivial matter, so she told him everything briefly.
It was true that her expression wouldn't change a bit when she heard what Emily said, but she knew
deep down in her heart.
After the dance, many women looked at Jonas and wanted to invite him to dance with them. They
couldn't help glancing at Melinda next to him.
The expression in their eyes could never be regarded as friendly. If the expressions in their eyes could
be transformed into real knives, Melinda would have been dead already.
She looked a little tired. Just now, Jonas invited Melinda to dance in order to take her away from Emily.
At this time, he directly took her to the rest area.
"I'll go get you something," said Jonas. He didn't think his behavior was strange at all.
Looking at the eyes of the people around her as if they were predators, Melinda could not help
swallowing, and then said hesitantly, "No need."
With so many people present, she thought it would be a disaster for her to be served by Jonas.
Since Jonas had no idea of her worries, he looked at her confusedly. Melinda seemed to be looking
around, and he didn't insist. He thought she didn't like these things.
"These buffet is not fresh enough for you. I will ask the cook to prepare something you like," Jonas said
as he frowned. He thought that it was not troublesome at all, but Melinda was embarrassed.
Sometimes, Jonas was so obsessive with her. When he fed her, he would never consider that she
didn't want to eat but just felt that she didn't like it.
Melinda was helpless, so she directly said, "I don't want to eat anything now. I just want to sit down and
have a rest."
She had been very nervous in the past few days. What happened to her these days, along with Emily
just now, made her feel like on pins and needles. She wouldn't even be able to eat. But she wouldn't
tell Jonas about it.
Hearing this, Jonas sat down next to Melinda. It was simple that he wanted to stay with her.
Thinking of that Melinda was in a bad mood because of Emily just now, Jonas felt guilty. It was his
negligence.
In this banquet, although Melinda was the main character, she only appeared for a while. Soon, she
was quiet in a corner. Even so, more and more people noticed her.
Since Jonas cared so much about her, they should be very careful.
Nelson was old, so the party wasn't delayed for a long time. The party was over at 8 or 9 pm.
"Grandpa, it's late now. I should go back." Before Jonas went to greet other people, he let Melinda
keep Nelson's company. Naturally, a tough person like Emily would not dare to challenge Nelson.
As soon as she said she was going to leave, Nelson was unwilling. He said, "It's late. You can stay
here tonight."
"Yes, it's getting late," Queena spoke up and gave a hint to Jonas with her eyes.
Seeing the stubbornness in Melinda's eyes, he sighed silently in his heart and said, "I'll take Linda
home."
"No, you don't need to do that. You've been tired enough to have been through a hard day. The driver
can send me back," Melinda said. She was glad that Jonas now knew how to think of her rather than to
wait for the elders to make her compromise.
However, since Melinda insisted, Jonas said, "Either stay here, or I drive you home."
Melinda touched her nose embarrassedly, and then said, "Well, you can drive me home."
Both of them made a concession. Nelson was also worried about the safety of Jonas. At last, he
arranged a driver for them, and it would take them about an hour to arrive at Melinda's house.
Jonas thought Melinda would fall asleep, but when he saw the expression on her face, she still looked
like she had something on her mind.
"Linda,"
Jonas called out when Melinda was about to walk to the corridor where Melinda stopped and looked at
him suspiciously.
He just smiled, and then went to the side of Melinda and said softly, "Have a good rest, if you have
anything worried, remember to tell me."
He didn't ask her directly, but told her in this way that he had been there all the time.
Melinda bit her lips and walked towards the corridor without saying anything.
Back to the bedroom, just as Melinda was about to pull the curtain, she found the car downstairs had
not left yet. It seemed that there was a telepathy between them. Jonas looked up.
Even though he was very far away from her, Melinda could feel the tenderness in his eyes.
Melinda shook her head and quickly drew the curtain. As usual, she prepared herself a cup of milk,
washed her face and lay on bed.
However, as long as there was something on her mind, she couldn't fall asleep. What Emily had said to
her kept resounding in her mind the whole night. Although she had comforted herself countless times in
her heart, she still could not help but worry about it.
Emily was capable of doing things by hook or by crook.
What should she do to solve this problem? The requirements for being part in the making process last
time had already made it difficult for the director. If she also interfered with the casting, would the
director overthink about it?
The more Melinda thought, the more chaotic the mess in her mind. She tossed and turned, unable to
fall asleep.
Though she had her eyes closed, she was still sober.
The next morning, Melinda's eyes were black rims. She was in low spirits.
She really couldn't come up with a solution, because this circle was too messy, and she didn't know
which path Emily would take, and there was no way to stop her.
After thinking for a while, Melinda called the director.
For this matter, Melinda couldn't speak out directly. She hemmed and hawed with the director for a long
time and didn't get to the point.
"Director, I hope you can choose some actors like heroes in novels. This book is very important to me
and I hope you can understand it."
She finally put it mildly. Emily's appearance and inside were totally incompatible with the novel. If he
chose Emily, he would disrespect the original book, which would also ruin it.
At that time, Melinda would be sad. Her fans would feel bad too. She didn't want that kind of thing to
happen.
The director was not happy to hear that. Melinda had intended to interfere in the making at first, and
now she had wanted to give directions to the casting.
Any director would think that he was doubted.
But he couldn't express his unhappiness in front of her. To put it bluntly, although he was a famous
director, the shot was not by him alone. Jonas had the decision making right.
"Don't worry. I will take good care of this," the director said in confidence. He was not a fool. This play
was not short of investment, and naturally the actor would be chose fairly.
Furthermore, making a novel into a TV play often had risks. In consideration to the image of the roles in
the novel, they had to take caution in casting.
The first one was that actors' appearance should be in line with the original image, and the second one
was their acting skills.
Deep down, the director was not so reckless to hire several random people to destroy his reputation.
Melinda sensed the uneasiness in the director's tone and realized that her attitude was probably
misleading.
She felt helpless, but it was also because of the director's words that she was a little relieved.
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