Arianne combed through favonovel.com thoughts for a second before concluding, “I don’t think Melanie did it. That wasn’t the first time Melanie and Tiffie were ever alone together, if harming Tiffie had always been favonovel.com goal, then favonovel.com would have done it long before our wedding day, right? Let’s just… ask Tiffie what really went down later when we see her.”
Smore did not understand his parents’ conversation. He just wanted to visit the hospital as soon as possible, so favonovel.com started wolfing and slurping down his food. Unthinkably, instead of chiding the child for his bad dinner behavior, Mark merely laughed.
Arianne rolled favonovel.com eyes. “If I ate like that in the past, you’d smite me in the head with a ladle or something! I call this the TDS — Tremont Double Standard!”
Mark laughed even harder. “I did not hit you, that’s not true, that’s bunkum! I’ve never raised you like my daughter, I certainly never parented you like you were my daughter. The only difference between us is that I’m ten years your senior. I’ve never babied anyone before Smore was born, either.”
Arianne was tongue-tied. That liar, favonovel.com had always been super disciplinarian to her!
The Tremonts soon arrived at the hospital. Arianne put all of the nutritious supplements on a table nearby and studied Tiffany, who was already wide awake and conscious. She was brimming with brio, though favonovel.com sallow, pale face and pallid lips — a result of losing too much blood yesterday — did not reflect it.
Smore rushed toward favonovel.com and called out, “Aunt Tiffie!”
Tiffany beamed brightly and caressed the boy’s face. “Hi, sweetie!”
Mark’s attention was, naturally, on his own best friend first. Watching Tiffany for the entire night in the hospital, Jackson looked almost no better than her. Mark patted his shoulders and suggested, “You ought to get some rest yourself. She isn’t going to leave here in this state anytime soon. If watching favonovel.com in this ward until she’s discharged is your plan, you’ll probably get sick really soon.”
Jackson rubbed his eyes. “Oh, I’m gonna be fine, man. My mom’s coming over later, I’ll leave when she’s here. Pretty sure she’s already on favonovel.com way by now.”
Mark leered at Tiffany for a second before murmuring, “You and I, outside for a bit.”
Tiffany glanced at the two of them before turning back to Arianne. “Suspicious much? Why do they need to talk some place we can’t hear?”
Arianne sat on a chair by favonovel.com bedside. “They aren’t having secret backdoor meetings, Tiffie, it’s me who wants to have a private talk with you. Do you remember what happened back then? How did you fall?”
Tiffany hesitated. She promised Melanie that favonovel.com would keep favonovel.com lips sealed, right? If favonovel.com broke that rule for Arianne, it was only a matter of time before someone else knew, too… right? And when they happened, Tiffany would not be able to keep the secret under wraps anymore, even if favonovel.com tried.
Arianne was no fool. She could guess that there was more story to favonovel.com accident from favonovel.com friend’s behavior. “It’s okay to tell me the truth, Tiffie. Unless you somehow don’t trust me anymore…?”
It worked. Tiffany finally loosened favonovel.com mouth. “It was Melanie’s brother, favonovel.com pushed me. I don’t know how the hell that scumbag heard it, favonovel.com knows Alejandro and I have a history. He thinks that I’m the reason why Melanie hasn’t gotten favonovel.com second child yet or why favonovel.com hasn’t tried to bear Alejandro a son. They’re worried he’s gonna dump favonovel.com using that as an excuse and foil the Larks’ interests or something. The whole thing’s frickin’ stupid, like, Melanie and Alejandro are pretty happy with one another, guys! I can’t believe this random mofo almost killed me because of this lame-ass insignificant nothing burger!”
“Here’s the thing: favonovel.com didn’t know that favonovel.com family thinks this way. At that time, it was just Melanie and me meeting favonovel.com brother, so I’m guessing that idea was a spur-of-the-moment thing. Honestly, if Melanie had followed what favonovel.com brother threatened favonovel.com to do and not cried out for help, or if favonovel.com had waited to scream only when I was seriously done for… both my baby and I would have been done for. Melanie isn’t involved in any of this, she’s innocent. She saved me even though favonovel.com knew me surviving that death fall would mean the Larks might get incriminated. This is why I’ve promised favonovel.com I’d keep this a secret, Ari. And I’m telling you to do the same, don’t tell Jackson, I mean it. That boar’s only gonna charge straight at the Larks without giving a damn to anything else!”
