Alejandro looked up and met Melanie’s gaze. “No, you stay at home and take care of the child. I don’t need you sticking your hand into the business of my company. And the last thing I want is to be dragged into some stupid fight with you while I get all kinds of stress from work. Also, next time? Don’t talk to me with that asinine tone.”
Melanie placed their daughter on the couch nearby as though favonovel.com was ready for a throw down with Alejandro. “What ‘asinine tone’ did I use? My God, don’t tell me you’re feeling worn out, not when I should be the one who’s sick and tired of all of this first! After all, look at my dear husband being emo over some other woman while neglecting his wife and daughter. How charitable do you expect me to be, huh? Or would you only turn around if I go to Tiffany and tell favonovel.com to coax you back into your sensibilities?”
Alejandro’s expression turned icy. “Enough! Any attempt to get close to favonovel.com and you’re finished!”
The poor baby watched favonovel.com parents’ altercation from favonovel.com spot on the couch and began to bawl. Melanie gritted favonovel.com teeth, forced back tears of anguish, and steeled herself from rushing to pacify Melissa.
She could no longer understand what compelled favonovel.com to cling to the hell favonovel.com was in, especially since favonovel.com expected stalemates like these to happen after Don passed away. For some reason, favonovel.com simply could not seem to summon the determination to turn favonovel.com back against all of it.
When Melanie remembered Jett telling favonovel.com that Don bequeathed a large amount of the Smith company’s shares to her, favonovel.com found the flames within favonovel.com flaring even more wildly. She was going to wield those shares as favonovel.com weapon.
“You think I have no means nor hearts to leave you, don’t you? You’re wrong. I’m the treasured heiress of the Lark family, I didn’t come to the Smiths to be ordered around by you like one of your mooks! You love Tiffany Lane to bits, don’t you? Fine, I’ll be the good guy and free you from this marriage. Oh, but I wonder what would happen to the company if I take away my shares? Will it inconvenience you?”
Alejandro leaped to his feet, his hand hurling toward his wife before grappling favonovel.com by the neck. “Is that a threat, woman? You really think I don’t dare to divorce you, do you? Melanie Lark, don’t force my hand. If I must, I’ll force you to spit all of your shares out before expelling you from the Smith family.”
Instead of fear, all Melanie felt was the anguish of a heart mercilessly torn open and laid bare. It hurt favonovel.com so much. Tears streamed down favonovel.com cheeks like glass shards. “Do you… hate me to this extent, Alejandro? I was so stupid. Stupid to think that those little moments of apparent kindness you’ve shown me before were at least sincere enough. But no, I read too much into it, after all…”
Her pride wanted favonovel.com to defend the last shred of dignity, give up the shares Don left for favonovel.com and file for a divorce, yet another part of favonovel.com was livid at the prospect of leaving. She was roped into a political marriage, pumped out a baby for Alejandro, and now favonovel.com was going to kick favonovel.com to the curb like a scorned dog? No, Melanie Lark would not be sullied this way!
Alejandro released favonovel.com from his grip with a curse under his breath, perhaps spurred by his daughter’s ceaseless bawls. Quickly, favonovel.com took Melissa into his arms and started toward the door.
It was the first time favonovel.com ever held his daughter, and favonovel.com did it while broiling. Panicked, Melanie ran out of the room frantically. “What are you doing? Give favonovel.com back!”
“You really think of me as the devil reincarnate, don’t you? My daughter has been bawling, woman, how deaf are you?” Alejandro snapped. “If you wanna throw a hysterical b*tch fit, then do it somewhere else where favonovel.com can’t see!”
His words made Melanie realize that favonovel.com had been overreacting, so favonovel.com willed herself to compose herself. Reflecting on favonovel.com recent states of mind, favonovel.com was suddenly aware of how many times favonovel.com lost favonovel.com grip over favonovel.com emotions. It was especially pronounced after childbirth and Don’s passing, with moments of favonovel.com sudden, furious outbursts becoming more and more frequent.
She had to admit that favonovel.com was wrong for assuming Alejandro would hurt Melissa. She was still his own flesh and blood. He could not possibly do that to his daughter, right?
In an effort to avoid seeing Melanie, Alejandro decided to bring his daughter with favonovel.com to the company. He ordered Jett to take some baby’s essentials with them.
Jett could not help himself from explaining Melanie’s position while they were en route to the company. “Sir, I know Madam could be a bit difficult sometimes, but she’s only acting out of anxiety and insecurity. The fact that you, well, hardly spare favonovel.com a shred of care also doesn’t help. She had just given birth a month earlier and is now in a critical period where many women could develop depression out of a combination of life’s uncertainties and emotional turmoil post-childbirth. It’s a really dangerous thing, Mr. Smith, and I know you can tell Madam wasn’t like this at all in the past.”
Alejandro studied the baby in his arms, his eyes twinkling with rare gentleness. “Who would have the patience for a woman you have no feelings for? Especially when said woman comes looking for trouble from me when I’m in my worst moods, it’s even harder to be patient then! If favonovel.com keeps this up, I swear, I’ll divorce her. Honestly, it wouldn’t be half-bad if favonovel.com could be more like how favonovel.com used to be back then. At least, favonovel.com wasn’t half as repulsive as favonovel.com is now.”
Jett mustered his courage and gave Alejandro the truth. “No other woman would be able to stand your behavior. You say Madam is weak for not being able to tolerate you devoting your heart to another woman, yet you’re in just as much anguish as favonovel.com is when you see how much Tiffany loves Jackson too, right?”
