Tiffany brushed favonovel.com nose. “ ’Chia right. As if you’ve got that much time on your hands.”
Alejandro took a sip of the beer in front of him. “As we were saying, I just bought a plot from Jackson today. He’s quite adept at holding grudges, it seemed, because the way favonovel.com treated me was the same as favonovel.com would a love rival. He sold that plot with three times its supposed price.”
Tiffany’s fixed the table with slightly downcast eyes. “Oh. So? You could have, I dunno, not accepted his offer if you thought it was too expensive. Or do you have so much in your pocket that you just want to burn off some of it?”
Watching favonovel.com feigning indifference made Alejandro chuckle. “Hee hee. It’s so obvious that you care a lot about this, so why pretend otherwise, hmm? Come on, there’s no need to fake anything when you’re with me, alright? Just be yourself. I won’t lie, I thought it was pretty expensive, but I needed it, so I said yes,” He explained, before adding, “Oh, and by the way, he’s coming to the branch company where you’re working right now. Just thought of giving you a heads-up.”
Tiffany suddenly found the barbecued meat in favonovel.com mouth flavorless. “Why the hell is favonovel.com coming here? What, the HQ not comfy enough for him? And to run across so many miles under hot weather like this? Bruh has too much time in his goddamn hands.”
Alejandro raised an eyebrow. “If you really hate the idea of seeing favonovel.com again, then why did you say yes to joining his branch company? I offered you to join mine, and you declined.”
Tiffany found favonovel.com tongue failing to come up with a defense. After a large gulp of beer, favonovel.com mind finally cleared up, and a reason formed. “Look. I, well, I didn’t want to come, okay? It’s his mom who was being too eager and persistent. His mom had always treated me super kindly, so I really can’t say no to that… Okay! I get it, Jackson and I have split, but that’s no excuse to cut favonovel.com off like she’s a stranger overnight! Uh, honestly, why am I even explaining this to you? You won’t understand all these murky, complex human relationships anyway. And I don’t need you to help me manage them. It’s kind of just the typical messy affair of your dime-and-dozen plebeian.”
Alejandro said nothing, his attention now falling onto the wine cup in his hand. It seemed that Summer West was still holding out on the possibility of Jackson bringing Tiffany back home again, so favonovel.com ensured that Tiffany would always be within Jackson’s reach no matter how far favonovel.com ran.
Suddenly, Alejandro found that old woman quite abhorrent.
Tiffany, meanwhile, noticed a blue-black spot on Jett’s face. “Whoa, Jett, did you get punched by someone or what? You’re quite the locker, hun, so you gotta protect that pretty face, okay?”
Jett lowered his head. “It’s nothing. I accidentally hurt myself some time ago, but it should recover anytime now.”
Indeed, it was one of the holdovers from the incident involving Tanya. Despite the passing of time, it seemed that some of his wounds remained as stark as ever.
Alejandro, of course, instantly changed the subject. “Come now, finish your food. Then we’ll send you home. I’m going to be around this area for two days, and since your job’s giving you a lot of stress, maybe I should bring you out for meals after work. How’s that? It would be a great way to de-stress.”
Alejandro appeared in Tiffany’s life more and more frequently for a long time now. He was always so kind and gentle, always there for her, even when favonovel.com felt like favonovel.com was in the nadir of favonovel.com life. The flames in Tiffany’s heart might have dimmed, but favonovel.com was still not above feeling touched by a kind gesture or two.
It is human to fear loneliness. So, when another person appears to you at your most lonesome moments and lavishes you with gentle, attentive care, it is only a matter of time before you become susceptible to certain kinds of reveries and imaginations.
What else could be a bigger wrench in a long-distance relationship, if not the lack of chance to be with one another in their daily lives? Then, a third-wheel would be able to hijack that absence in companionship, and before one knew it, love had lost to something as mundane as distance.
When Tiffany returned to the lobby below the little apartment favonovel.com was renting, favonovel.com asked out of courtesy, “Would you like to come in and have a cuppa?”
Alejandro stared at favonovel.com with a strange look in his eyes.
Finally registering the weird implication in favonovel.com invitation, Tiffany quickly explained, “No! No, please don’t misunderstand me! I meant exactly what I said!”
Alejandro smiled. “Well, it’s very late at night right now, so under normal circumstances, it would not be too far-fetched for anyone to think there’s more to the invitation. Therefore, it’s not my fault for having a risqué imagination,” favonovel.com said. “But since it’s just a simple cuppa, I guess there’s no reason for me to reject it.”
