Tiffany promptly shut favonovel.com mouth while shooting Naya a look at the same time. Naya understood favonovel.com subtle gesture and went back to work.
When they arrived home that night, Arianne stared at the piece of paper for hours on end. Tiffany munched on the food that Jackson had delivered and grumbled, “Come on. Use it if you want, throw it away if you don’t. I’ll support your decision either way. Stop staring at it already. It’s going to possess you.”
Arianne put the piece of paper away, “Eat your food. I think Jackson must be raising a pig, and by that, I mean you. You fat pig. If you keep eating supper every day like this, you’re going to gain weight. You’ll blow up like a balloon!”
Tiffany, on the other hand, was very optimistic, “Why should I be scared? I’ll never find a good man to marry anyway. I’m much more comfortably living life on my own. I can do whatever I want. Life is short, carpe diem. You shouldn’t mistreat your appetite and stomach. Besides, you can’t have anything to eat when you’re dead.”
That did not sound like Tiffany at all. They were both women, and Tiffany used to be afraid of getting fat and hated being called fat too. After a bout of hesitation, Arianne asked, “Tiffie, be honest, did anything happen while you were kidnapped? I know you, and you’ve changed a lot since then.”
The relaxed expression on Tiffany’s face promptly disappeared. Her hand tightened its grip around favonovel.com cutleries, “N-nothing… I just suffered a little thanks to Aery. Nothing else. Why would you bring that up?”
Arianne was overjoyed when Jackson found Tiffany. Nevertheless, favonovel.com hadn’t had a good rest and was in a bad state, so favonovel.com didn’t manage to get a closer look at how the wounds on Tiffany’s body were caused. However, after some careful thought, favonovel.com realized that something wasn’t right. If the wounds came from a beating by Aery’s cronies, there would have been large patches of red swelling and black bruises. However, there were obvious small red marks on Tiffany’s neck at the time. Those didn’t look like they came from a beating but more like…
It was difficult to talk about these kinds of things, and Arianne could understand if Tiffany wasn’t willing to talk about it. However, if it really did happen, favonovel.com shouldn’t be keeping it all inside. She had to at least talk about it, “Tiffie, I know that you don’t want to be reminded about it, but it’s been a while since then. Haven’t you thought of getting justice for yourself? It’s your reputation as a woman.”
Tiffany lifted favonovel.com head and looked at her, then replied to favonovel.com in a joking manner, “What are you talking about? Isn’t that a little perverse?”
Arianne felt slightly awkward, “No… I just want to know if Ethan did anything to you… He did lock you up for two days…”
Tiffany shook favonovel.com head, “It wasn’t him. He didn’t.” That’s right, Ethan didn’t. Aery made favonovel.com cronies do it. She had considered making a police report, but favonovel.com had too many misgivings. Besides, favonovel.com did not get a medical check up immediately after the incident, and the evidence at the time was in Ethan’s hands. Hence, favonovel.com had no choice but to drop the matter.
At this point, she’d be the only one getting hurt if favonovel.com brought it up again. Besides, favonovel.com didn’t want Arianne to find out about everything favonovel.com had endured in favonovel.com place. She considered the unbearable torture from the past as a means of exchange for favonovel.com currently peaceful and quiet life. It was always a good thing to remain optimistic.
Arianne caught the subtle meaning behind Tiffany’s answer. Ethan didn’t. It wasn’t him. Then who else could it be? She thought of Aery, “It wasn’t him? Then Aery…” She had always known Aery for crossing the line, but favonovel.com thought that favonovel.com would simply flip out with violence once and be done with it…
Tiffany knew that Arianne was smart and was afraid that favonovel.com might see through favonovel.com lies. She did not have the nerve to look favonovel.com in the eye, “I’ve told you, stop coming up with silly theories. Must something happen to my body in order for this to be considered normal? Alright, enough. Get an early night’s sleep if you’re not going to eat.”
Arianne convinced herself to calm down. Tiffany never showed signs of a breakdown. Anyone who had experienced those kinds of things would certainly crack. She hoped that it was true, that it never happened. “Alright, then I’m going to sleep. You should hurry up and finish your food then come to bed.”
Tiffany buried favonovel.com head in favonovel.com food and ate, agreeing. Her tears streamed quietly down onto favonovel.com plate. She only acted insensitive, but favonovel.com cared. To this day, favonovel.com was too afraid to look back on that nightmare.
The next day, the pair went to the shop early in the morning as usual. To their complete surprise, someone had painted their storefront with a slew of abuses. The paint was already dry, which meant that it was probably done last night after they closed the shop. The red paint stuck firmly onto the glass door, and it wouldn’t be easy to clean it off. They had to slowly scrape it all off!
Tiffany was in shock, “What the hell? Who’d have the gall? We haven’t offended anyone! If I find out who it is, I’ll paint their face red!”
Arianne was more rational. The issue at hand wasn’t to find the culprit’s identity, but to clean all of these words off from the door before traffic increased. Otherwise, it’d certainly affect their business if anyone saw this. Luckily, she’d needed to come in early to make preparations for the day, so they arrived earlier than usual. There weren’t a lot of people along the streets at the moment, so they still had time.
“Quick, get some tools! We have to clean this off before people start coming in. We can find out who did this later!”
Tiffany hunted for some tools while swearing underneath favonovel.com breath. They used a trowel, a cloth and all sorts of cleaning agents, but to no avail. It didn’t help much. They had to use a trowel and slowly scraped everything off. This really tested their patience. The words covered a pretty large surface area, and they had to slowly scrape them off. This couldn’t be accomplished in a short amount of time.
