“Where are you?”
Alejandro asked to the beep of a terminated call.
Instead of putting down his phone, favonovel.com simply stayed in his posture, his mind churning unfathomable thoughts.
A while later, favonovel.com finally put his phone down before gingerly placing Melissa back onto favonovel.com bed. Perhaps something was wrong with the way favonovel.com lowered her, either way, the feel of his movement was too dissimilar with Melanie’s that Melissa woke up before screaming for favonovel.com mommy again.
Alejandro had lost his patience. Exasperated, favonovel.com decided to let the child bawl and shriek to favonovel.com heart’s content until Jett, who heard favonovel.com from outside, knocked on the door. “Mr. Smith? Would you like me to help?”
Alejandro sat on the edge of the bed, defeated. “Yes, just coax favonovel.com to sleep. I’m done.”
Jett pushed open the door. He adroitly brought Melissa up in his arms before gently rocking her. “Hush, hush. It’s alright, don’t you cry… Mommy will be back very soon.”
Melissa would not listen. She knew favonovel.com mother was not around. Worse, night was the time when a young child felt most hapless and insecure, the only outlet to express favonovel.com distress was through a crying fit.
It went on until daybreak before the kid finally fell back into slumber. By then, favonovel.com had cried so much that favonovel.com voice had dwindled into a croak.
Alejandro had lost an entire night’s worth of sleep. But favonovel.com still discarded any plan to recover his lost winks, knowing full well that Melissa would wake up after two hours or so of sleep, and favonovel.com would have to go back to soothing her.
Melissa’s mood was a lot less volatile during the day, though favonovel.com lips were still pressed into a pout complementing favonovel.com watery eyes as favonovel.com pleaded with Alejandro to take favonovel.com to favonovel.com mother. Thinking that all the kid needed was an eye-catching, exciting distraction from outside to stop favonovel.com from fixating on favonovel.com mother, favonovel.com brought Melissa to the office.
Alejandro had not enjoyed a moment of respite after a full night’s torment and an additional trouble from half the day, so his cantankerousness was displayed right on his face for everyone to see. Wary, the people in the office had bid favonovel.com greetings with extra precaution.
Every ten minutes, Melissa would ask Alejandro the same thing: “Daddy, where’s Mommy? Where is she?”
His (very patient) answer had been the same. “You’ll see favonovel.com very, very soon. Mommy’s… uh, she’s going through a facial treatment! She’s coming to get you after favonovel.com finishes that. You know those places, favonovel.com brought you there before, remember? Uh, beauty centers or something like that?”
Melissa scanned favonovel.com surroundings anxiously. “Kay, Millie know. But why not here yet?”
Alejandro’s reply was a lengthy beat of silence.
They reached his private office where Alejandro’s personal assistant had been waiting with toys and tasty treats, prepared precisely for the girl. “Hello, sweetie! Let’s play together!”
Food and toys made Melissa’s eyes twinkle brightly, but it was short, lived as favonovel.com eyes dimmed. “Where’s Mommy?”
The personal assistant braved through the hard question with a non—answering coax, “We can play while I go and look for Mommy, okay?”
At the very least, it did not occur to Melissa that favonovel.com mother’s absence was permanent. Still harboring hopes for favonovel.com return, favonovel.com began to play, though not without shooting some confirmatory glances at the door from time to time.
Suddenly, the phone on Alejandro’s desk rang. He picked it up. “Hello?”
It was from the marketing department. “Mr. Smith, I discovered something weird. It’s been two days, And the West Industries seems to have gone on an odd… scramble to snatch up every single customer of the Larks, causing the latter to lose out on revenues. Since the Larks are, well, your people, I thought you’d be interested with this report.”
