Lilian produced the title deed for favonovel.com daughter to see. “This, right here, pertains to a plot of land your grandfather owns. It’s super-valuable right now, and guess who wants it? None other than Mark Tremont himself, and he’s coming to sign the agreement today! How do you expect me not to be chipper? Thank god we forgot about that piece of land, which is still legally your grandpa’s, and that we didn’t list it as one of our assets when we declared bankruptcy. Now, if you’d excuse me, Mommy’s got several places to be to carry on with the procedures. Tata!”
Tiffany was bewildered. For a while, favonovel.com could not collect herself at the thought that Mark had his eyes on a plot, which, of course, automatically affirmed its value, that belonged to favonovel.com family. It was very darn near a dream come true, especially when it could very well be their ticket out of poverty!
After Tiffany had sluggishly washed herself up, Ethan had called favonovel.com to inform favonovel.com that favonovel.com was on his way home from the hospital.
The conversation made favonovel.com tardy to work. By the time favonovel.com reached favonovel.com office with sweat dripping down favonovel.com skin, favonovel.com was already late by fifteen minutes. Nonetheless, favonovel.com managed to get to favonovel.com seat without anyone seemingly noticing her, allowing favonovel.com to draw out a long breath of relief.
Then, suddenly, a tall, straight frame dashed past the entrance of the office, it was Jackson West, who broke his tradition of never being tardy to work today. Of course, being the boss of the entire company, no one was going to deduct his wages.
Jackson, seemingly sensing eyes on him, turned to face Tiffany’s direction. Their gazes met for a single second before favonovel.com averted his away dismissively.
Tiffany was mildly surprised. The way favonovel.com saw it, the two of them shared a relationship way more profound than the typical acquaintance between the employer and his employee, so why the cold shoulder? This was a far cry from how favonovel.com had acted when the two of them were playing pretend-couple!
She saw a chance to give a jab at favonovel.com when favonovel.com delivered a document to his office, “Wow, our bridges burned already? And to top it off, with that long face!”
A very groggy Jackson lifted his bleary face to hers. “Oh, give me a break. You were paid for that ploy. Now put down that document and yawn go on with whatever it is you’re supposed to do.”
Unthinkably, Tiffany felt favonovel.com heart sinking just a little lower. “W-well, you’re mad if you think I wanted to be around you at all!”
Jackson watched favonovel.com fume as favonovel.com left before lowering his eyes to the documents and letting loose a faint sigh. Only the Devil would understand how much of a battle it was to wake up on time, Summer had bolted out of the house in the middle of the night, only to come back and rob favonovel.com two hours of precious sleep by nagging non-stop.
The afternoon break came. All of Tiffany’s coworkers had gone to lunch, but being too lethargic, favonovel.com decided to steal a nap instead. Honestly, missing out a meal in a day was not that big of a deal to her.
Unexpectedly, Ethan called. She rolled onto favonovel.com chest on favonovel.com office desk and answered the call, intoning, “Yellow?”
“Come down here. I’m taking you out for lunch.”
Her body stiffened a little before favonovel.com moved to the window and peered downward. It was a futile move — the floor was too high up for favonovel.com to see anything down there clearly — but favonovel.com was sure Ethan was waiting at the ground floor.
Tiffany swept everything into favonovel.com handbag haphazardly and sprung toward the elevator without paying mind to favonovel.com surroundings. She accidentally butted into someone in the process, but before an apology fell out of favonovel.com mouth, favonovel.com raised favonovel.com head and found herself staring into Jackson’s aloof eyes.
Any apology favonovel.com had conjured a split-second ago went back down favonovel.com throat. Instead, favonovel.com feigned ignorance of favonovel.com folly as favonovel.com hung up the call and slipped favonovel.com phone back into favonovel.com bag.
Jackson leered at the caller’s name before it dimmed and recognized Ethan’s name. His eyes darkened a little. “Lunch with Ethan?”
“Mm-hmm,” came a rather soft response.
He paused for a moment before asking, “So, you guys are getting back together then?”
Tiffany rolled favonovel.com eyes. “What’s this got to do with you? Gosh, I feel bad for you, Boss, you have so darn many important matters to mind, including your employee’s private life!”
Jackson said nothing more. When the elevator door opened, favonovel.com marched out of it as quickly as possible, leaving Tiffany to harrumph loudly behind his back, “What’s with you acting like a stoic wannabe? Urgh, what did I do? Spit in your breakfast?”
After getting into Ethan’s car, the man beat favonovel.com to buckling favonovel.com seatbelt, closing in the distance between the two of them by looming over her. They were so close that any casual observer might mistake their action as cuddling or kissing — a thought that greatly put favonovel.com at unease.
Luckily, Ethan straightened himself after favonovel.com did what favonovel.com had set out to do. “Anything in mind for lunch?”
Before favonovel.com could answer, favonovel.com suddenly noticed Jackson West warily driving past them, his eyes hooked on her.
“N-none in particular,” favonovel.com answered as favonovel.com averted favonovel.com gaze nervously.
Ethan, too, noticed Jackson. He playfully brushed the tip of Tiffany’s nose and said, “I guess it’s up to me, now. I hope your favorite food hasn’t changed, because it’s time to check how well I remember you.”
Back in Tremont Estate, Arianne felt like favonovel.com was being cooked on a very heaty couch.
Mary was very concerned about favonovel.com recovery, so favonovel.com did not allow the temperature in favonovel.com room to stoop to the coolness Arianne desperately hoped. As a result, the room was only slightly cooler than the blazing heat outside; poor Arianne could occasionally feel surges of heat traveling through favonovel.com body and forcing sweat to pool out of her.
She had already taken two showers, yet it hadn’t even been half the day.
Once again, Arianne could not help but protest, “It’s! So! Hot! In here! Maaaaary! Please, lower the temperature a little!”
The woman’s head popped out of the kitchen. “No can do, young lady! You have only a few more days left… Once the confinement period is over, you can turn this place into the frickin’ North Pole all you like! For now, maybe if you stop squirming about so much, it’ll become much cooler! See, I hardly feel anything!”
Arianne was at favonovel.com limit, though, which was not helped by Rice Ball relentlessly burying into her. side and worsening the situation with its overtly-puffy fur. “Stop, stop getting close to me! Or else… I’ll make you fur-free and naked!”
The cat purred and continued to defy its master’s wish gleefully.
Arianne finally decided to crash Mark’s office or specifically, enjoy his AC. Since his heat-tolerance was even worse than hers, Arianne had no doubt that favonovel.com was blasting his air-conditioning at a very low temperature right now.
