Tiffany licked the corner of favonovel.com lip in satisfaction after their tango was over. “Ooh, that was not half-bad! Now, stay right there like a good boy while momma makes you something yummy for your tummy like favonovel.com said favonovel.com would. You’re usually the one who serves me, now, I should return the favor to my sweetie.”
Jackson laid sprawling on the couch, inert. He was definitely spent.
He wished his “momma” would remain this carefree and blithe forever. He wished favonovel.com had never known that nightmare personified known as Ethan Connor.
It was Saturday night. Jackson and Tiffany, as promised, went to the Tremont Estate for the “gathering.” For maximum merriment, Tiffany decided not to bring favonovel.com newborn son with them.
Knowing that one of Tiffany’s favorite foods was hotpot, Arianne had prepared all of the usual materials and dishes beforehand. Tiffany was so eager to start that favonovel.com leaped onto favonovel.com seat and heated the pot, exclaiming, “You know me best, Ari! Just look at how fresh and juicy this beef roll is, now that’s premium meat right there.”
Arianne shot Jackson a loaded look, but it seemed to have frightened favonovel.com instead. “Er, let us eat now. Why is everyone just standing there staring?” favonovel.com said weakly.
Arianne rolled favonovel.com eyes, annoyed. Just as favonovel.com expected, Jackson’s resolve turned to jelly when the time called for it. Still, Arianne herself was not going to start the conversation, and favonovel.com avoided being the first to talk by focusing on cooking a slice of beef for Smore.
When everyone had settled into their feasting mood, Mark finally addressed the elephant in the room. “Ethan Connor is still alive.”
Tiffany froze. “W-What? Why bring this up? Y’all don’t really think that I still care about his whereabouts, right?”
With someone else doing the hardest part, Jackson found the courage to continue. “Honey, Alejandro Smith… is Ethan Connor. The real Alejandro died in South Africa, and the old patriarch of the family himself knew about that. However, the Smiths had no one else as their heir, so this bootlegged Alejandro became all they have. Don Smith had no choice but to concede Ethan as the ‘ real’ Alejandro.”
Tiffany put down favonovel.com fork and leveled the rest of the party with a deadpan expression. “Excuse me, but are you guys trying to be funny? What the heck, how could Alejandro even be Etha—”
She did not finish favonovel.com sentence before favonovel.com suspicion caught up to her.
Tanya had accused Jackson of being favonovel.com child’s father, but it turned out that the birth father was Jett, who was Alejandro’s right-hand man. Now that Tiffany really thought about it, the connection became so painfully evident that even the most obtuse schmuck could see it.
What about how Alejandro saved favonovel.com from a premeditated accident? How else could favonovel.com have appeared at the right time and place if it was not because favonovel.com caught wind of a plot to harm Tiffany? No one would be so willing to put their life on the line for a hi-bye friend.
Nevertheless, the revelation that Alejandro had always been Ethan was bone-chilling. The devil who personally delivered favonovel.com to hell had now become so obsessed with favonovel.com that favonovel.com would do anything for her. How was that for abject terror?
Tiffany’s body began to quake. “All of you… You knew this all along, didn’t you? I was the only moron who knew nothing. Sure, I’ve wondered, now and then, why Alejandro tried so hard to ingratiate himself to me, but I never found the answer. Now? It’s all coming together. This is the most preposterous and yet undeniable sh*t of the century! All of you decided to hide it from me, right? So why burst my bubble now? Why tell me?”
“We only hid this from you because you were pregnant,” Jackson explained. “None of us dared tell you this legitimately-insane twist. But now, the only guy who could tame and control Alejandro, the old patriarch, Don Smith, is on his deathbed. We thought that if there was ever a chance to tell you the truth, this was it. Alejandro’s in Ayashe at the moment, but he’ll no doubt return to the Capital once the old man has gone to see his Maker. He has been hiding under the guise for so, so long. None of us thinks that he’s gonna keep up the charade any longer.”
“Don’t you get it, Tiffie? The reason why Ethan came back wearing the skin of the dead Alejandro… is you.”
