Tiffany eyed favonovel.com suspiciously. “‘Same as ever’? I don’t think we’ve met before. Don’t act like you know me so well. Not even my own mother knows me that well…”
Alejandro didn’t answer and simply stared quietly at her.
They locked eyes. Tiffany’s heart skipped a beat. Why did those eyes look so familiar to her? She couldn’t quite describe this feeling. It was as if… they had known each other for a long time. She instinctively lifted favonovel.com hand to take off his mask, but favonovel.com turned away with a straight face. “My face hasn’t completely healed, so I’m afraid that I might scare you. I’ll let you look at me as much as you want when I come back to the country.”
Tiffany lowered favonovel.com head, realizing that favonovel.com had forgotten favonovel.com manners. “I’m sorry The last time you treated me to a meal, you only watched me eat. Would it be the same this time as well? You’ve really interpreted the words “treating me to a meal” perfectly…”
Alejandro refused to comment, tacitly agreeing to favonovel.com statement.
Tiffany wasn’t a fool. She remembered Jackson’s warning, whenever a man ingratiates himself upon a woman, favonovel.com would certainly be harboring an ulterior motive. She boldly asked Alejandro, “What’s your game? You gave me a bottle of liquor at the bar, then researched everything there is to know about me, and helped me get rid of Grant Jackson. You’ve treated me to a meal time and again. What are you trying to do? I wonder if you’re aware of your underling seducing my ex?”
Alejandro was very calm about it. “Heard it long ago. But Lynn and Jackson are long acquaintances. You’ve been well aware of this yourself. I can’t possibly manage my staff’s personal affairs. If I had to concern myself with that, I’d be too busy to even fix this face of mine. Just say the word, and I’ll fire favonovel.com at once.”
“No need,” Tiffany replied blankly. “We’re not that close. The staff under your command are none of my concern. I have no right to make you do that Besides… It doesn’t matter to me anymore. I don’t have much of an appetite, and since you’re not eating either, I’m leaving. By the way, great wine.”
Alejandro did not insist that favonovel.com stay, just like the last time. “You like it? I’ll give you a bottle. Promise me that you’ll slowly enjoy it when you go back, don’t mindlessly gulp it down. It’s such a waste of a precious treasure.”
The pair smiled at each other. Tiffany stared at the bottle of wine in favonovel.com hand glumly when favonovel.com walked out of the manor. She had unwittingly been confounded by Alejandro. She had clearly wanted to question favonovel.com on his motives for getting close to favonovel.com but failed to get an answer in the end.
When favonovel.com arrived home, favonovel.com put the bottle of red wine on the shoe cabinet, just as favonovel.com was changing favonovel.com shoes. Lillian poked favonovel.com head out when favonovel.com heard favonovel.com from the living room. “Where have you been? Gone on a job hunt? It’s almost Easter. There’s no rush in finding a job now. You must be in a bad mood. Take some time off and search for one after Easter. Who’s that wine from?”
She walked towards the couch and sat down. “Someone. Take it and drink if you like.”
Lillian picked up the bottle, inspected it, and widened favonovel.com eyes in shock. “Who? Was it that… that guy? You couldn’t have actually cheated on Jackson. Is that why the engagement got canceled? Who’d be so generous to give you such expensive wine, aside from Arianne?”
Only now did Tiffany realize why Alejandro had asked favonovel.com to slowly enjoy the wine when favonovel.com got home, and why favonovel.com told favonovel.com not to mindlessly finish it all in one gulp. He even mentioned that it would be a waste of a precious treasure. So, it seemed that it was because it was… expensive!
She took a deep breath. “Mom, can you please stop bringing up the past? I did not cheat. It’s over. Stop talking about it. If you like the wine, drink it yourself. Let me have some peace and quiet…”
Lillian tactfully shut favonovel.com mouth. However, favonovel.com couldn’t bear to drink that bottle of red wine and carefully put it away instead.
