After determining the heroine, I had a small meeting with the creator of "Instinct" to finalize some scattered things, and the time was already more than seven o'clock in the afternoon, and Eric was just about to leave, only to remember that there was a woman in his office.

Eric pushed open the office door and walked in, and the little woman who was sitting on the sofa, absentmindedly flipping through the magazine in front of her, was startled and relieved to see that it was Eric.

All the lights in the office were turned on at this point, the wall lamps, the ceiling lights, and even the lamp on Eric's desk.

"Why are you turning on so many lights?" asked Eric casually, walking over to his desk.

"I didn't ...... It's nothing," Joanna Pakula hurriedly stepped forward, turned off the lamp on her desk, and took three or two steps to turn off the wall lamp, and the office suddenly became a lot darker.

Eric watched Joanna Pakula turn off the lights, and quickly understood that the reason why the girl turned on so many lights was a kind of insecurity, or it could be that she was afraid of loneliness, and at the same time, she felt some pity, and at the same time, Eric's tone also softened: "I'm sorry, Miss Pakula, I made you wait so late, but there are really a lot of things to do." ”

Joanna Pakula shook her head, "It's okay, I don't have anything else to do anyway. ”

"Why don't I go to your place tonight, is it?" said Eric, the girl's very insecure expression just now, which made him feel guilty as if he was taking advantage of someone's danger.

"No...... It's not too late, it's only seven o'clock," said Joanna Pakula with some eagerness, and although she was inevitably aware of something, the girl instinctively did not want to pass up the opportunity.

She was fed up with the uncertainty of the present days, which seemed to be suspended in the air, and the young man in front of her could obviously help her put an end to this qiē. She doesn't want much, she just wants to settle down. No longer like before, the longest time or even three years did not receive any role, she had to rely on part-time jobs everywhere to make ends meet.

"In that case. Let's go, then," Eric didn't postpone any longer.

Come to the parking lot. Eric didn't drive his own car, but sat directly in the passenger seat of Joanna Pakula's car.

The girl looked at Eric, who was wearing his seatbelt, took a deep breath, and started the car.

"I didn't think you lived in North Hollywood, my family used to be around here, I guess it was on the north side," Eric said as he walked through Joanna Pakula's apartment.

Speaking of which. The original apartment in the North has been sold, but the Beverly Hills mansion has not been sold, but is used as another place to live. Although there is a property tax generated every year, the property tax in North America can offset some of the personal income tax, so it is not too much.

Joanna Pakula said: "Actually, I just moved here not long ago, I used to live in the city, and last year I made a lot of money for that movie. I moved here. ”

Eric shrugged slightly, and didn't say anything more, obviously. The girl's previous situation was not very good, the urban area of Los Angeles is not as prosperous as the urban center of the country in the previous life, but a very chaotic community, the best security in Los Angeles is of course the Beverly Hills side, and the worst security should be regarded as the downtown area.

"Mr. Williams, you can rest for a while, and I'll make dinner, soon," Joanna Pakula pointed to the small sofa in the living room. Said.

"Well, just call me Eric. Eric said casually as he took off his coat and hung it on a hanger in the hallway.

"Alright, Eric. My friends call me Joan," Joanna Pakula said, walking towards the kitchen.

Eric looked around at this small apartment, the appearance of a one-bedroom apartment, both the decoration and the furniture are quite simple, there is a sofa in the center of the living room, in front of the sofa is a small TV cabinet, behind is a small dining table against the wall, there are a few photos hanging on the wall, Eric leaned over to take a look, there are a few should be stage stills, acting should be Shakespeare's plays.

Joanna Pakula looks young in the photo, reminiscent of the girl who once spent time in the Polish National Theater, this should be a photo of that time, these photos should be more than ten years ago, but in comparison, the current Joanna Pakula is not much different from more than ten years ago, compared to the Westerners who are easy to get old, the girl is looking at the goddess in terms of appearance.

After turning around, Eric walked to the small TV, and saw a VCR under the TV cabinet, and a few boxes of videotapes next to it, Eric looked through it casually, and saw a movie called "Kiss", which was introduced as a horror movie, and half of the woman's face on the poster was processed into a skeleton, with thick red lips, and it was impossible to see the appearance of the woman busy in the kitchen.

Putting the tape into the VCR and turning on the TV, Eric sat back down on the couch.

The scene begins with a parting of ways with a divorced family, the mother takes a daughter on a distant train, but on the car, the evil spirit in the mother's body attacks, but the xenomorph spreads to the daughter and dies, and the girl secretly gets out of the car and disappears.

More than ten years later, the younger sister who grew up with her father has married and the daughter has become an adult, but because she took off the cross to give it to her daughter, the younger sister died in a sudden car accident, and the older sister, who had never been seen, appeared at the sister's cemetery and met her sister's husband and daughter......

After only half an hour, Eric had almost foreseen the result.

There was a slight sound behind her, and Joanna Pakula appeared in the living room at some point, standing quietly behind Eric, staring blankly at the TV screen.

"I don't like this movie," Eric said, turning off the video and switching to a TV channel.

The girl didn't answer, but the gloom in her eyes was hard to hide, and if she had a choice, she would definitely not take such a movie.

"Eric, let's eat," the girl said after a moment of silence.

"Well, I'll help you," Eric said, getting up and following Joanna Pakula into the kitchen, helping the girl bring a simple dinner to the table.

"I don't have any material here, so that's all I can do," explains Joanna Pakula.

Eric served himself a small bowl of corn soup, tasted it, nodded and exclaimed, "Very good, I like it." ”

Joanna Pakula looked at the shabby dishes on the table and already regretted it, she had already taken Eric out to eat, in fact, it would not cost too much, although the man kept praising her, she was still very unconfident, and her smile was very reluctant. (To be continued)