Chapter Thirty-Nine

Niall arrived at the canteen only a moment after Bethany, Jake, and Seth. Two of his colleagues were with him. Seeing the queue of people there, they hesitated.

“Niall, let’s go into the nearby town instead. There’s a small tea shop which started doing breakfasts to cater for the cast and crew.

Niall looked pained. “Come on guys. It will only take a few minutes, whereas it takes ages to find a parking spot in town.”

They shrugged and talked about the next job they had. They were all stunt people and discussed the safety measures for the new scene.

Niall was only half-listening as he watched Bethany lean into the guy she lived with and then curl her fingers around Seth’s hand for a few seconds. Niall’s gut clenched. She didn’t get the message then.

He turned to his companions, “Sorry guys. I feel a bit under the weather. I’ll leave you to it for the day.”

His colleagues gave him a surprised look but he walked purposely off.

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It took Niall a few minutes to reach his own trailer. He burst through the door, feeling obsessed with what was happening. He hadn’t felt this bad when Seth was seeing Sara Smythe. Maybe it was just the thought of someone treating the actor so badly that he fixated on. Maybe his own love for the man was breaking his heart.

He opened the lid of his laptop. It sprang to life when he pressed ‘enter’. Niall launched the Bluetooth program that was paired with his cell phone, and transferred the video from his cell phone to it. He checked out the AVI file of Bethany and Seth in bed. He saw way more than expected of Seth’s face and the woman’s figure. Even he had to admit she was hot. Probably because she is into the gym, being a personal trainer, he thought.

Niall watched it a couple of times. Then he used his alias of The Stuntman on his favorite social network sites to post the video outing Seth with a secret lover. Niall felt physically sick when he finished his last post, where he speculated that the hate mail was not far wrong since this mystery woman was already in a relationship.

He stood and walked up and down his trailer. Then he went to the bathroom and vomited. Going back to his living area, he sat on the bench seat by the trailer door and thought about what he did.

Niall’s heart beat faster than usual and he felt as if he had done Seth an immense injustice. He signed back into all his social network accounts and deleted his posts. When finished, he felt slightly better.