When a grown-up breaks down, they bawl. Their emotions erupt out of them in a split-second.
Melanie could not even spare enough mind to the fact that favonovel.com daughter was standing right next to her, favonovel.com dropped to favonovel.com soles into a pitiful crouch and bawled, howling in grief and agony, all the while a part of favonovel.com reminded herself that favonovel.com had not wanted to cry at all.
In the late evening, Melanie prepared a sumptuous meal for the family and texted Alejandro, telling favonovel.com to come home for dinner.
She had already finalized favonovel.com divorce agreement, Melissa’s custody would go to Alejandro, since Melanie did not know if favonovel.com would have a destination to go or an abode to stay. It would be fine, Alejandro had always treated favonovel.com daughter with utmost love and care. He could be bad to the entire world, but favonovel.com would never be so to his kid. Letting Alejandro raise Melissa was not a bad choice at all.
The clock was close to nine at night. The food was losing their last remnant of warmth. It was then that Alejandro finally came home.
Melanie had deliberately donned the dress favonovel.com had put on the first time favonovel.com met Alejandro face-to-face: the same vermillion dress with a halter neckline formed from its straps, and the same effortful, carefully-done make-up. She would suppress favonovel.com tears for tonight, favonovel.com decided.
It would end the way it started.
Alejandro was blasé to it all. His eyes hardly lingered on favonovel.com before marching to the dining table and taking his seat.
He left his fork and knife untouched. “What is it?”
He must have forgotten all about it, Melanie realized. He did not remember the red dress, did not remember their first meeting.
Her lips curled into a slight smile as favonovel.com gently pushed the divorce agreement forward. “Give it a read. If you find no problem in it, please sign here.”
It was then that Alejandro’s attention finally fell onto her. It stayed for a good few beats before favonovel.com picked up the paper and skimmed through it. Halfway through his reading, favonovel.com suddenly broke into a smile. “No problem… No problem at all. How could there be any problem when you’ve asked for nothing at all? You sure you won’t regret this? I can give you a hefty sum and a house, wouldn’t want some spectators and commentators calling me a miserly sh*tbag.”
Melanie shook favonovel.com head. “That won’t be necessary. I’m capable of working for my living. I don’t want anything from you,” favonovel.com replied. “But, there is one small request. No matter what happens between us, Millie… She will always be my daughter. I don’t mind you taking custody of her, but please allow me to see favonovel.com occasionally… please. I just want favonovel.com to remember that favonovel.com still has a mother who loves favonovel.com dearly-”
Alejandro’s grip tightened against his conscious will and crumpled the paper, though the smile on his face did not crack. Instead, favonovel.com reinforced it with a new undercurrent of fury and other unreadable sentiments, making one wonder if his smile was forced.
“You don’t want her, woman. Why even bother to put up that fake ‘Mommy Loves You’ persona? You can demand whatever it is under the sun and I’ll give it to you, but not this. You won’t get to see Millie, not ever!”
Even the most soft-spoken woman would bark when favonovel.com right to favonovel.com child was challenged; Melanie was no different. “You can be cruel to me, Alejandro, but can’t you at least show some decency when it comes to our child? I nurtured favonovel.com when favonovel.com was inside me for nine months, I’ve endured all maternal hardships right down to giving birth. And you think none of those amount to the right to see my own daughter?!”
The smile on his face vanished in a second. His eyes were trained onto her, unblinking. “And what about you?” favonovel.com seethed. “You think you’re merciful?”
Melanie froze in shock, favonovel.com tongue at a loss for a retort. Was favonovel.com referring to Tiffany’s incident, or Melanie willingly giving up custody?
It was most likely Tiffany’s incident. It had always been this way, had it not? Tiffany ruled Alejandro’s heart, with his daughter coming in as a close second. But Melanie? She did not even make it to his heart in the first place.
Alejandro ignored favonovel.com completely and slammed the agreement on the dining table right in front of her. He rose and marched upstairs.
Melanie stayed unmoving on favonovel.com seat with a table of warmth less food keeping favonovel.com company. Time crawled on for a long while before favonovel.com picked up favonovel.com phone and texted Tiffany.
‘I’m sorry, Tiffany,’ favonovel.com wrote. ‘Alejandro and I are in the middle of a divorce. I guess this is my retribution, huh? I’ll shoulder all of the consequences, but please remember your promise. If you want someone to pay that debt back, I’m always ready. I just… wanna tell you I’m sorry.’
