Alter Ego: His Sultry Lover

The next four days went by in a flash. Cage ended up in the hospital for inhaling all that smoke as did many of the others. They also had to do a psychological evaluation on him considering he flew into a panic attack every time Katherine moved away from his side. ƒ𝚛𝐞𝚎𝑤𝘦𝚋𝓷o𝚟e𝘭.c𝐨𝙢

Cage had tried to see Giselle, too. Though he was part of the reason why all of this had happened, no one seemed to let him in. Katherine explained to him that he was not in a condition to see her. He had to give up finally and get all his information from other people.

So, according to all the information he had received, the scene happened because of this. Mark had worked on the same set as Cage and Keira before but had never been in the forefront. This meant that Cage had taken no notice of him. While they were on set, Mark had heard all the rumors about them dating and believed that was the best-case scenario for Cage to gain new heights of fame.

When their messy affairs came out in the open, Mark was furious. He wanted to get back at Keira for trying to ruin Cage but ended up being influenced by the woman instead. What a turn of events. She'd somehow convinced him that she was the victim in all of this and she wanted what was best for Cage. What she had done was for her own survival, but it ended up hurting everyone around Cage.

That's when the letters started. Cage just hadn't noticed. He had only noticed when it was too late. There was also the whole thing about Mark confronting Giselle and her manager. Neither Giselle nor her manager had mentioned this. Indeed, they had been using the whole Cage thing to boost her popularity.

Gossip had it that Giselle wanted no part of it, but her manager convinced her into it. Little more probing showed that it was Giselle's manager who had been feeding information to the news outlets. Not the worst Stephen and Cage had seen but considering how dire the effect of their action was, the manager must want to kill himself.

Giselle had hit her head pretty hard in all the chaos and remained unconscious for a day. The burns on her had been treated immediately but would take a lot of time to heal properly. A lot of money and time would take to heal her completely, not to mention the psychological trauma of the whole event putting a shadow in her mind.

Cage wanted to apologize but he was also furious that such a big thing had been kept from him. Katherine wouldn't have been put in danger if they had been more forthcoming. Giselle wouldn't have ended up like this either.

Stephen was trying his best to control the news. The story was spinning out of control, well beyond the scope of the tabloids. It was in the mainstream media, Cage's past now splashed all over the news once again. In the beginning, no one could put the pieces together. But it all came into the picture when Stephen tipped of the media outlets about suing Keira Higgins and Giselle's manager. The pieces as it happened, the injury from the first day, the threatening letters, the need for security, and finally the explosion finally made sense to the public.

While nothing was explicitly said, it didn't take a genius to figure everything out.

"I never want to hear about Keira ever again," Katherine said when she saw the news.

"On a positive note," Stephen interjected. "Keira is only getting negative press and a lot of people want to meet the two of you. Everybody wants to see you."

"Well, not a surprise. My girlfriend is beautiful," Cage boasted.

"No, because nerdy gamer girls make for cute content," Stephen snorted. "You even have a theme song for your love story."

"And you've listened to it a hundred times," Katherine groaned.

"What, it's good!" Stephen whined.

When Stephen left, Katherine sat in her chair beside Cage.

"A theme song, huh?" he asked.

"It's actually good," she commented. "Don't tell Stephen I said that."

"It seems we are in the news a lot." He fought a smile.

"And you're not helping matters, either. You instructed the hospital staff to distribute the flowers to the other patients and the game figurines were given to the children's wing." She shook her head. "You're too good for your own good."

"Where did you think all those gifts would go?" His room had been flooded by things and it looked like a unicorn had puked all over it.

"Stephen told the media all about it. He's milking the situation for all it is worth." Katherine became grim at that.

"It's his job. He needs to earn the money I pay him and we need to recover the money we spent on hospitalization. How will I do that without marketing myself to the public as an angel?" He smirked.

"I kept some figurines, though. Didn't let Stephen mention that to the press." Cage burst out into laughter. "What? They were really good quality. Limited edition, too. I was saving up to buy some of them." Katherine pouted.

"I'm beginning to think that you need a change of career. You've not gotten a break from disaster this year. Are you sure it is safe to be an actor?" Katherine mumbled.

"Well, I could leave if you want-"

"Don't you dare. You shine when you act. I wouldn't take that away from you." She paused and gave him a meaningful look. "You'll be up and out of the hospital soon."

Cage shook his head. "I'm trying to take advantage of my bedridden state. Can't you see?"

Katherine wrinkled her nose but raised her hand. "Okay. Hit me. You can get anything you want out of me. And everyone else on the planet. Personally, I think you should just ask for a superhero role. It suits your personality," she said, her voice filling with sarcasm.

"There is only one thing I want." His voice was serious. Katherine hadn't expected that.

"And what is that?"

"You." He licked his chapped lips. "Marry me, Katherine." f𝑟𝑒ewe𝚋𝚗૦𝐯e𝘭.c𝗼𝓂

Her eyes popped wide open. "What?" she whispered in disbelief.

"Marry me."