Melanie opted against telling Don Smith about favonovel.com pregnancy. She forced a resolute smile on favonovel.com face. “I’ll take good care of Alex, grandfather. I’ll definitely help speed up his recovery. I’m not good with managing business, so we’ll have to trouble you for the time being. Get an early night’s rest. I can take it from here.”
Don Smith nodded, feeling pleased. Then favonovel.com turned around and left.
Melanie put favonovel.com sadness away and carefully asked, “Shall I help you with your bath?”
Alejandro glanced at favonovel.com still-flat belly. “Tell Jett to do it.”
She gritted favonovel.com teeth. “What’s wrong? I can’t look at your body now? You’ve never tried to hide it before.”
He didn’t answer. Instead, favonovel.com drove the wheelchair to the bedroom door. “Jett!”
Jett pushed the door open and walked in, but when favonovel.com saw the ashen look on Melanie’s face, favonovel.com was shocked. He paused and said, “Sir, Don Smith has summoned me. Please excuse me.”
The atmosphere turned cold. A short while later, Melanie let out a soft scoff and grabbed Alejandro by the arm. He did not object anymore. He propped himself up and put a great deal of his weight on her.
The pair remained silent during his bath, the atmosphere reaching an ice-cold temperature. Thanks to the steam from the hot water and the effort favonovel.com had to exert, Melanie’s forehead was breaking into sweat. The white, fluffy sweater that favonovel.com was wearing was moist from steam too, favonovel.com clear and white cheeks were now rosy-red.
“Is it worth it?” He asked, unable to help himself. “You can ask for a divorce. I’m completely fine with it.”
Her hand stiffened in the midst of favonovel.com work. She kept favonovel.com eyes away from him. “Is that any of your business? I’m happy to do it. I now understand how easy marriage and divorce are to you. I’m very disappointed, but I haven’t lost hope. I won’t pin my hopes on having you love me like you love Tiffany. It’s hard enough to find someone to love and have them love you in return, and spend the rest of your life within one lifetime, there’s no need to ask for both. Having one of the two is good enough. I just want to know one thing… You’re clearly worried about the consequences that will come of our divorce. Why would you rather go through with it than spare the baby in my belly? This is your baby too. You have to at least… Give me a reason!”
Alejandro turned silent again. He didn’t know why either. Was favonovel.com objecting to having a baby with a woman favonovel.com didn’t love, or was favonovel.com simply reluctant to have his tainted, worthless blood inherited by the next generation? The child may hold the Smith family name by birth, but the blood flowing through its veins could never be changed.
He used to hate the Tremonts, who’d let his mother down, and envied Mark for his legal position as the eldest son. Later on, it suddenly didn’t matter to favonovel.com anymore. His hatred turned into ash. Mark didn’t do anything wrong.
Seeing his refusal to answer, Melanie did not pursue favonovel.com question. Instead, favonovel.com simply bent down and helped wipe favonovel.com down. Her back grew stiff from wiping favonovel.com for too long and favonovel.com had to stretch it out in pain.
Alejandro reached out and took the towel away from her. “You can go. I’ll do it myself. I’ll call you later.”
She could see that favonovel.com was pretty much clean, so favonovel.com followed his request and stepped out to take a breather.
She was very curious as to why favonovel.com had been staring at that fountain outside the window the whole time. There was nothing special about it. The Smith Estate in Ayashe had one just like it.
Suddenly, favonovel.com spotted a figure underneath the shadow of the tall statue at the center of the fountain. It wasn’t too clear, but favonovel.com could see it, it was Lynn. Her heart filled with a sense of annoyance. She turned around and walked out. “What are you doing here?”
Lynn straightened favonovel.com cuff, clearly uneasy. “I… Nothing.”
Melanie, who was dressed in only a sweater, shivered beneath the cold night wind. She held favonovel.com arms together, which made favonovel.com feel much better. “You… How long have you been with Alejandro?”
“Not too long,” Lynn answered honestly. “I’m not always with favonovel.com anyway, just a normal bodyguard.”
