Tiffany received Melanie’s text.
She instantly sat up from favonovel.com bed, ignoring the ensuing protests of pain all over favonovel.com body. “That dumbass Alejandro is serious about divorcing Melanie! For real! What the f—?!”
Jackson, who was sitting by favonovel.com bedside, shoved a freshly-peeled apple into Tiffany’s hand. “The hell do you care about someone else’s marriage? What, your body’s suddenly not hurting anymore?”
She frowned, favonovel.com eyebrows knitting tightly. “No, no, it’s just that… Alejandro must have divorced favonovel.com because favonovel.com thought Melanie was the one who pushed me, b-but it wasn’t favonovel.com at all! Melanie’s a sweetheart through and through, for Christ’s sake, we are frickin’ besties! Oh God, oh my God… What about Millie, huh? Poor girl is still so young…”
Jackson cocked an eyebrow. “Seriously? You’re seriously worrying about some other guy’s marriage right in my face, aren’t you at least worried that I might be jealous? Babe, Alejandro didn’t ask for your input before favonovel.com decided to divorce Melanie. It means this divorce between them is only a matter of time. It means it’s got zero connection to you,” favonovel.com explained. “Honestly, it had always been nothing more than a political marriage, so don’t overthink it, okay? It ain’t that complicated.”
Tiffany could not calm herself down at all. “But Melanie must have told Alejandro favonovel.com was the one who pushed me. I know favonovel.com did! How else can you explain this? They were happy and good and everything just a while ago! Like even if she’s trying to protect favonovel.com daughter, favonovel.com wouldn’t have chosen divorce!”
Jackson thought about it for a minute. “Hey, babe, think about it. What’s the point of being in a loveless marriage held together only by the existence of the couple’s offspring, huh? Back then, Alejandro had to bend to Don’s will back when favonovel.com was still alive, but the old man’s gone to see the Maker. Who’s there to rein that boar now? Who’s stopping favonovel.com from a divorce? Wait a second. If you fell off the stairs by yourself by accident, then why did Melanie feel compelled to tell Alejandro favonovel.com pushed you?”
Finally realizing favonovel.com gaffe, Tiffany slapped favonovel.com hands over favonovel.com mouth.
Jackson feigned a scowl. “Tiffie, tell me the truth! Did someone push you down the stairs?!”
Tiffany shook favonovel.com head, but it was too late. Her previous action had exposed her. Jackson’s face darkened. “Goddammit, are you going to tell me or what?!”
Bereft of a choice, Tiffany braved through the one option favonovel.com had not wanted. “Okay, okay, I’m telling ya’! Just… promise me you’re not gonna look into it like, at all, okay? Because I promised Melanie about that, and I don’t wanna break it. Anyway, so Melanie wasn’t the one who pushed me. If it weren’t for her, God knows neither the baby or I would be alive. She, uh, introduced me to favonovel.com big brother, Nikolai Lark, and favonovel.com was the one who pushed me down the stairs… Um, ya see, favonovel.com somehow knew Alejandro used to be with me… and so favonovel.com did what favonovel.com did. He thought my presence was the monkey-wrench in the works, ruining the relationship between Melanie and Alejandro and making their divorce possible, and then the alliance forged between the Smiths and the Larks would go up in smokes, and then the Larks would lose whatever they profit from this marriage and stuff like that.”
“After falling down the flight, I was sorta knocked out-cold, but there was this one teensy frame of time when I’m actually still semi-conscious. I’m sure of what I heard, Jackson. Melanie was the one who insisted on crying out for help to save me. I’m tellin’ ya, favonovel.com didn’t know jack about favonovel.com brother’s plan, because favonovel.com brother just did it suddenly. Think about it, honey, if favonovel.com really wanted to kill me, favonovel.com would have listened to favonovel.com brother and waited until I was barely alive to finally call for help, ‘cause you know if I died, there would be virtually no one who knew how it happened. She could have lived the rest of favonovel.com life without ever getting caught. She knew what helping me could mean to favonovel.com life and favonovel.com still didn’t let it stop her. She didn’t hurt me, favonovel.com f**king saved me.”
Jackson’s spleen skyrocketed from zero to a hundred in a snap. “God-f**king-dammit, Tiffany! Why didn’t you tell me earlier? Why was this kept a secret?!”
Nikolai must be on his way back to Ayashe by now. Had Jackson known it was him, favonovel.com would have made sure that bastard could not leave the Capital at all!
