Chapter 23 - Alex Is Back

At PRICELESS Aria spoke to her agent and asked her if she had found the ring the woman in the picture was wearing. Knowing her artist mindset, Aria's agent did not dare tell her that she could not find it anywhere. She had been looking for it all night, but it seemed that it was not for sale anywhere.

"I looked in all the New Bell jewellery stores and asked, but I did not find anything; so I thought since she is the owner of the CANDIDE brand, maybe this ring is an exclusive product made just for her, that's why I could not find it?" Pam reported what she had found, covering her ears with her hands, knowing that Aria loved to talk out loud.

"Couldn't you find another way to get it? Couldn't you make one that looks like this ring! I need it before the ROYALSTAR movie audition!!!" Indeed, young Miss Porter was getting angry.

Pam was used to her artist's stupidity, but sometimes it was too much of a good thing. 'Is she that stupid? If that ring is a brand exclusive, she's going to be in trouble if she imitates it. But let her be on her own if that's what she wants,' Pam thought before assuring Aria that she would get the ring before the audition.

"Hopefully you'll have it by then!" Aria scoffed, eyeing Pam from head to toe before drinking her cold Americano.

Not far away, in an office on the top floor of PRICELESS, Clyde was on the phone with his spy in RoyalStar.

"I have some news, I think it's a new model who's going to play the female supporting role your sister wanted. Her name is Alex and she's from New Bell, but I heard she's originally from here. She will soon be the face of RoyalStar. That's all I know."

"Are you sure her name is Alex?" Clyde was getting a bad feeling about it. He didn't know why, but he started to panic a little "Alex Porter? " He asked

"No, I think her name is Michell, Mr. Clyde, do you know her?" James was confused at Clyde's violent reaction.

Clyde was lost in his thoughts and hung up the call. He thought, "That can't be here, how can she become a world-famous supermodel, she should be struggling in New Bell since dad did not send her any money..." with that thought in his mind he went on the internet and searched for "Alex Porter" but did not find much... He was a little relieved. Then he searched for Alex Michell and found all the information about Alex's career as well as several pictures, her official Whatlife page and some blogs etc... When he saw her eyes and her gaze, he knew without a doubt that it was her!

He remembered, he saw her once at a fashion show, she reminded him of someone back then, but he could not figure out who. Now when Clyde looked at those pictures, he could see that she looked a lot like her mother, his father's first wife.

After seeing many of her pictures, he smiled like a madman. She was the woman he had wanted most in his life, ever since he had first met her when he was seventeen. And now she was back, and this time he would not pass up the opportunity to taste her soft skin.

With a strange grin on his face, he called his little sister and asked her to come to his office. Two minutes later, Aria was lazily sitting on her brother's office couch.

"So, brother, why did you call me?"

"Aria, did you know Alex was back in the country?"

"Bro, what are you talking about, you know that stupid girl can not come back, does she have any money to come back here? Dad does not even send her money anymore, who knows, maybe she's a prostitute by now!" She sighed.

"I do not know how she did it, but she's here, she's the new face of RoiyalStar! You know that model named Alex... her real name is Alex Michell!

"So what? Her name is not "Porter"... "

Clyde shook his head at his sister's stupidity. "Her mother and father divorced, and her mother's name was Michell, remember?"

Aria was horrified when she realised what her brother was implying. "You have got to be kidding me, how could she get like that, how could she get so famous!!!! I thought I was done with her forever!" She yelled out.

"I thought so too, and she's the one who got the female lead in RoyalStar's new movie, I think she has more power than it seems."

"That Alex has been ruining my life for some time now, who knew it was her! No wonder I can't stand her... Wait, so she's the one who's with Ethan? Bro, we need to take her down and send her back to where she came from! She even owns a clothing brand, how is that possible!???" Aria was getting angrier!!!

"Maybe she climbs on his bed to play that role! Who knows... Anyway, we have to tell father and investigate her, we need to know why she is back here!"

In the evening, in a beautiful old mansion outside the city, four people were sitting in a small tea room having a drink after a family dinner. The father and mother were drinking tea while the son was drinking lemon juice, and the daughter water. It was the Jensen family.

After her mother's call last night, Leila had told her brother to come home tonight as her mother had requested. When their mother requested their presence at home, they didn't have any other option than to come and do as the queen wanted.

"Mom, here is your son like I promised, aren't I a good daughter?" Leila tried to keep all the attention on her brother, to avoid her mother whining.

"Don't try to coax me, you are both ungrateful children. I must ask you to come home so you can see me! ... How happy I am!" Lydia exclaimed, looking sadly at her husband.

Eliott and Leila looked at each other, thinking that their mother was a real drama queen. They ate at the family home at least once a week, and now she was talking like they had not seen each other in a month. Eliott could not help but shake his head.

Lydia saw it and gave him a cold look. Seeing that, he gave her a big smile and stopped what he was doing.

"Why are you smiling?" asked Lydia to her son a little annoyed.

"Mom, what are you talking about, I am not smiling," Eliott put on his poker face:

"You think I don't know what's going on in your head behind that poker face of yours? You are saying that I am a drama queen, am I right?" Asked Lydia with a raised eyebrow.

"I didn't know you could read minds, Mom!" exclaimed Eliott, still pretending nothing had happened.