All too late for his love
Chapter 276

Chapter 276

"Zayn, the audition's about to start. Could you come with me to get changed?" Skyler asked softly.

Zayn didn't hear her at all. He couldn't tear his gaze away from Willow as if under a spell.

He didn't snap back to his senses until Skyler asked again, "Please, Zayn?"

"Fine," Zayn muttered, finally pulled out of his daze.

Willow felt like the air had finally cleared after Zayn and Skyler disappeared down the corridor. As she watched them leave, her fists clenched at her sides.

Aaron might have survived the fall from the cliff, but he had sustained severe injuries.

She'd watched him get his dressings changed and undergo surgeries, which left him feeling as if his bones were picked apart.

Willow would make Skyler pay for putting Aaron through such turmoil, just as she would make Skyler pay for Nicola's and Allie's deaths.

She wouldn't forget about the fire that broke out in Bordello, either.

Willow had no idea why Skyler picked the day of her engagement ceremony to set the former's apartment on fire, but Willow didn't need to be a genius to know Skyler was behind the arson. Skyler was Willow's sworn nemesis. Only one of them could be left standing.

Willow wanted to protect the people she loved from Skyler, and the only way to do that was to ruin Skyler for life.

At that thought, Willow reached into her purse and grazed her phone with her fingertips. She wanted to call Kenan and tell him the truth, but she couldn't contact him.

According to Moses, Kenan believed Willow was dead and left for Afrinia after her burial. It was a form of self-exile, and not even his father, Xavier, could reach him. Still, even if Willow couldn't reach Kenan through his phone, she was determined to replace a way to expose Skyler as a false heiress so that the Dawsons would cast her out. Not wanting to risk another run-in with Zayn, Willow waited until Skyler finished her wardrobe change before heading to the dressing room.

Applicants for the audition were put through another elimination round before the official audition that afternoon.

As such, only 15 candidates, including Willow, were left to contend for the role of Arena of Glory's ambassador. Skyler was the second last candidate to audition.

Willow, on the other hand, was slated to be the last audition purely because she was the last person to be

added to the list of contenders.

Willow glanced through the script she would deliver for the audition later.

She couldn't help but wonder if the playwright was sick in the head. Why did she have to sit on a swing barefoot? Were all the contenders meant to compete against each other's feet qualities? Auditions for TV shows and movies typically required candidates to go in for the recording individually. However, acting skills weren't a priority in casting the ambassador role, so it was an open audition.

In other words, candidates could enter the audition room together and observe the competition.

The last thing Willow wanted was to go into a room that probably smelled like feet, but it would seem rude for

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her to stay outside the room while

the other candidates filed in to watch the competition.

With much resignation, she clutched the script and sat in the back row.

Willow had only just sat down when a

man in an impeccable tailor-made black suit walked into the hall.

She was so busy going over the

couldn't be

script that she couldn't be bothered to give the man more than a

nonchalant glance.

Little did Willow know that this man would come to leave a mark on her life.

The man was none other than lan Nightingale.

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