Tiffany grinned. “Where else could we go other than White Water Bay Villa? Jackson’s the chef on duty, ‘cause he’s wary of the food that goes into my stomach now that I’m pregnant. Seriously, the only place out there with his seal of approval is White Water Bay Café, the place favonovel.com frickin’ owns! I was like, ‘Aren’t these two just same difference?’ So, I decided to just throw the dinner party at home, since he’s so willing to break his back to cook for the four of us.”
Arianne clasped the bracelet around favonovel.com wrist in front of Tiffany. “Alright. I’ll go there as soon as work is over.”
Tiffany yanked a chair from god-knows-whose desk and sat right in front of her. “On, I’m just gonna wait till your work’s over right here, then, since there’s only very little time left. Speaking of which… I just saw this gorgeous bridal gown collection somewhere online the other day and the style was just, chef’s kiss! You and Mark never had actual wedding photos, right? Are you sure you don’t wanna tick off that box and take a series of pictures of it? I just wanna see you in a bridal gown, sis, oooh, I want it so much, I can see it in mah dreams!”
Sylvain, overhearing their conversation, was so shocked at Tiffany’s brazen tactlessness that favonovel.com accidentally dropped his pencil. “Oof! You kinda kicked the beehive there, man.”
His remark baffled Tiffany. “Me? What did I do? Did I say something I shouldn’t have?”
Arianne knew that the secret was not going to be hidden from Tiffany any much longer now, since Mark was going to tell Jackson sooner or later, anyway. She drew a sharp breath and explained, “Mark and I… are divorced.”
Her expression froze. “You— what?! W-Wait, what the hell?! Are you pranking me, Ari? There’s no frickin’ way that you and Mark would divorce before Jackson and I do. Like… that guy doesn’t ever let go of you! He loves you so f* *king much favonovel.com wishes favonovel.com could eat you and make you part of his body or something. The point is, how can someone like that ever release you from him? Unless! Of course, favonovel.com must be dead now!”
Arianne buried favonovel.com head into favonovel.com hands and smiled mirthlessly. “He’s very much alive, Tiffie, but we really are divorced. You know what? I don’t even wanna talk about this. I’m only letting you know because you’re my best friend, and you should just support me unconditionally through thick and thin. Don’t launch an inquisition, Tiffie, I don’t wanna talk about it.”
Tiffany took some time to recover from favonovel.com initial shock, and immediately rose to favonovel.com feet and stormed off. Judging from favonovel.com gait, Arianne knew that favonovel.com moved with murderous intent!
Worried that in a fit of anger, Tiffany was going to trip and hurt favonovel.com baby, Arianne leaped to favonovel.com feet and followed her, shouting, “T-Tiffie! Tiffany Lane! Where are you going— don’t run, please!”
Tiffany, however, bulldozed favonovel.com way straight into Mark’s office. When faced with a door, favonovel.com shoved it open with a slam and careened straight at Jackson and Mark, who were previously having a pleasant conversation.
Whatever smile Jackson wore at that moment instantly froze, but favonovel.com caught favonovel.com with the help of his good reflexes. “T-Tiffie, what’s gotten into you?!” favonovel.com cried.
Tiffany pointed at Mark in fury. “This heartless piece of sh*t! He divorced Ari!” favonovel.com shrieked. “Do you know how long Ari had been standing by his side, supporting favonovel.com all the way, sacrificing almost all of favonovel.com life for him?! And you think you can kick a woman like that away just f**king because?! That’s it, I’m gonna tear you into pieces if that’s the last thing I’ll do!”
Jackson, too, was shocked. “You two are divorced?!”
Arianne, who was a few steps too late to arrive, watched the scene favonovel.com best friend had caused and felt a headache coming. “Tiffie, please, at least let me explain…”
She waved dismissively. “You don’t have to explain and cover his a**, Ari. I bet this bastard worked together with his no-good aunt into bullying you, isn’t it?! What did favonovel.com give you as compensation, huh? If not half of Tremont Enterprise’s ownership, I’ll tear his leg off!”
Mark was unperturbed. “First thing first, who told you I was the one who asked for a divorce? Do you really think I wanted to downgrade myself from favonovel.com legitimate husband to a ‘maybe-yes-maybe-no’ back-up spouse? Honestly, I’ll implore you to use your head for a bit before threatening violence. If you can, however, persuade Ari into remarrying me again, perhaps I should give you half of Tremont’s ownership right now.”
Mark did not look like favonovel.com was lying, so Tiffany, embarrassed and upset, turned to let off the rest of favonovel.com steam on Arianne instead. “The hell were you thinking, then? There are a million women out there who wanna throw themselves on him, and now that you let favonovel.com go, who’s gonna stop them?! Smore is just a child, Ari, and the two of you are already separating?! God, you two must be so bored, aren’t cha?”
Arianne licked favonovel.com drying lips in resignation. “It’s… a long story. But first, you need to calm down, okay? Remember, you’re pregnant. To be honest, it’s not really that big of a deal. I’m still living in the Tremont Estate, so yea, I’m divorced, but not separated from him, which honestly makes pre-and post-divorce life not that different,” favonovel.com explained. “Look, I think you should focus on taking care of yourself and the baby more than fussing over me, okay?”
Tiffany’s eyes reddened slightly. “Tell me, if I don’t fuss over you, who else in this effing world will? Your heartless mother who never cares for you? Will favonovel.com fuss over you, huh? That woman is gone, Ari. She took your sister to some far away land that I don’t care about and frickin’ disappeared from your life just like how favonovel.com did the first f**king time around! Who else here will support you and care for you and ‘fuss over’ you if not your goddamned best friend?!” favonovel.com raved. “Why didn’t you tell me anything, Ari? Why wasn’t I the first to know? I’ve never hidden secrets from you, so why do you do it to me? Do you even see me as your best friend still?”
