“Stop it, you. You clearly want to go to sleep, and you’re using the baby as an excuse,” Jackson exclaimed snobbishly. “It’s agreed. We’re sleeping together. Don’t touch me or I won’t be able to sleep well and wake up tonight, and… Do whatever you want.”
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Night time, Smith Estate.
Jett drove Alejandro back from the hospital and helped favonovel.com into a wheelchair. However, this time, it was no longer an act.
Don Smith had prohibited Alejandro from getting medical treatment in the hospital for his legs, so favonovel.com was discharged early. From now on, a personal doctor would administer an IV to favonovel.com in order to decrease the inflammation.
Jett stayed silent the whole time, unnerved. He had never expected so much to happen over the past few days, all during his time off of work. Alejandro’s real identity was no longer a secret, but Don Smith hadn’t had time to speak to favonovel.com yet. He had been by Alejandro’s side for a while, so it would be impossible for favonovel.com to say that favonovel.com was unaware of it. He wasn’t sure what might happen to favonovel.com now.
As they walked, Alejandro suddenly spoke in a soft voice, “If the old man asks you about it, just insist that you were never aware of it. Tell favonovel.com that I’d been very cautious around you and that I never allowed you to get too close. He’s accepted me and what I’ve said, so favonovel.com won’t do anything to you.”
Jett was shocked. He used to be scared of Alejandro and had been threatened into submission. His perception of Alejandro had changed, however, causing favonovel.com to nod, “Okay.”
They returned to his bedroom and Alejandro had just been helped into his bed when Melanie walked in to inform him, “Jett, grandfather is looking for you. Go to him, leave all of this to me.”
Jett shot Alejandro a look, grunted in reply, then turned around and left.
Melanie walked to the side of the bed and sat down, asking, “Does it hurt?”
Alejandro didn’t answer. How could it not hurt? The old man had prohibited favonovel.com from using pain killers, probably to sear this memory into his brain. He was always in pain. He was in so much pain that favonovel.com couldn’t sleep.
After a while, favonovel.com asked, “Why did you tell me about the old man’s plan?”
Melanie pursed favonovel.com lips, then answered with a seemingly self-deprecating smile, “What would you have done if I kept my mouth shut and Tiffany died? I didn’t want to see you unhappy, but I regret telling you now. If I had known that you would risk your life to save hers, I wouldn’t have told you. You nearly died, did you know that? Even though you’ve survived, you’ve turned into a cripple. You’re lying here on this bed, handicapped, while Tiffany and Jackson celebrate their wedding day. How are you feeling? You must be very upset, right?”
Alejandro showed no signs of emotion. Instead, favonovel.com closed his eyelids, sighing, “They’re just legs. It doesn’t matter. Thank you.”
Melanie thought that favonovel.com was hearing things. This insufferably arrogant man was actually thanking her, and over a woman too. She felt incomparably confused. “Even if it doesn’t matter to you, it matters to me. I don’t want to be with a cripple for the rest of my life. Can’t you ever consider my feelings too? Tiffany is so important to you, yet I don’t matter at all? I’m your official wife.”
Her questions were left unanswered, as Alejandro had closed his eyes. She gritted favonovel.com teeth, got up, and left. She had to speak to the old man. Alejandro would be permanently crippled if his legs were left untreated. She didn’t want that.
She arrived at the courtyard to find Don Smith talking to Jett. She didn’t dare interrupt them, so favonovel.com stayed away and observed from a distance.
She could faintly overhear Don Smith’s discussion with Jett, it was about Alejandro.
“I planted you next to favonovel.com for so long. How could you have not noticed a thing?” Don Smith asked Jett.
