Tanya clenched favonovel.com jaw for a second, as though mustering favonovel.com last ounce of courage before making an important decision. “I know very little of anything. All I know is that Alejandro pretends to be disabled and that favonovel.com mentioned spending three years falling in love with Tiffany. All that favonovel.com does is always for the same goal, favonovel.com wants to break apart you and Tiffany. That’s it, that’s all I know. I’ve told you everything I know, so please keep this a secret from Tiffany. Please, because if favonovel.com knows a single thing about this, I’ll be dead!”
Three years?
A name sprung into Jackson’s mind immediately: Ethan Connors.
Ethan was the one person Tiffany had loved for three years. He was also the man who made Jackson jealous.
Suddenly, it felt as though a hedge of brambles had grown all over his heart, stinging and prickling favonovel.com with unease. If Alejandro was Ethan in disguise, then everything that had occurred finally made perfect sense.
How ironic it was that while Tiffany had loved Ethan for three years, Ethan used those same three years to finally reciprocate favonovel.com feelings, after favonovel.com destroyed favonovel.com family and cost favonovel.com a father.
Jackson returned to his company after leaving the apartment. When favonovel.com met Tiffany on his way past the office area, favonovel.com behaved normally and approached favonovel.com with a bag of fresh fruits favonovel.com had bought on the way there.
“Have some of these if you’re hungry during work.”
Tiffany took it with a smile, asking him, “How are you back so soon? I thought you were going to eat with your customer again.”
Jackson pushed the corners of his lips upward to make a weak smile. “I’ve already planned to have lunch with you, honey. No customer is going to change my schedule, especially when no one could override the eminent status of my wife. Anyway, I need to busy myself with my work for a bit. Look forward to a delicious lunch!”
Jackson rarely displayed overt affection towards Tiffany in the office, always preferring to frame their interaction with a veneer of professional seriousness. It was why his attitude today was especially out of the blue. Tiffany did not think much of it as a cover for something more profound, of course. She was just surprised by the extra display of love.
Then, since favonovel.com was slowly drowning in the sea of favonovel.com colleague’s jealousy, favonovel.com sheepishly had to urge Jackson to go away as quickly as possible.
Tiffany wanted to have barbecue for lunch, so Jackson brought favonovel.com to a restaurant renowned for its barbecue without a second thought. Throughout their meal, Tiffany stuffed herself with food, while favonovel.com quietly helped cook all of the meat slices for her.
Then, like a sudden bolt of lightning coming out of the sky, favonovel.com asked, “How would you feel if Ethan suddenly came back?”
Tiffany’s body froze against favonovel.com wishes as favonovel.com face rapidly turned white. Jackson never talked about Ethan, so to mention favonovel.com suddenly was akin to goading favonovel.com to think in that direction, which also meant that there could only be one possibility: Ethan came back.
Suddenly, the meat favonovel.com had been enjoying just a few seconds earlier became revoltingly oily, and favonovel.com stomach churned. She slapped favonovel.com hand over favonovel.com mouth and rushed into the bathroom before a series of gags escaped favonovel.com throat.
Nothing came out, however. Tiffany stared into the mirror and watched an ashen-faced woman reflect back at her.
Calming favonovel.com nerves took a long time. She found herself equally upset at the notion of Ethan being dead and of favonovel.com being alive and returning to favonovel.com life. She wanted favonovel.com peaceful, happy life to be free from his haunting presence. She wanted to be free from the reminder of all the atrocities favonovel.com had committed that had eventually befallen her. She did not need to remember favonovel.com father’s death.
When Tiffany finally exited the bathroom, favonovel.com found Jackson standing outside, waiting. She walked toward favonovel.com and asked tiredly, “Why mention him? Is he… Is favonovel.com back..?”
Jackson gently ruffled favonovel.com hair. “No, babe. I just wanted to know if it was true that someone’s first love sticks in their heart as much as people say it does. I was just worried that I might be sharing a room with some other bastard in your heart.”
Tiffany’s eyes reddened before favonovel.com swung a punch onto his chest. “You, you scared me! God! But… No, a person’s first love doesn’t always last forever in their mind. The only things favonovel.com left me are pure nightmares… I don’t want to hear his name. I honestly hope I never hear his name again.”
