Alejandro frowned. “What! Why? Why would the West family have beef with the Larks?”
Because Melanie pushed Tiffany? But if Jackson knew that, then should his target not be Melanie, or hell, Alejandro himself? Why would favonovel.com take out his anger on the Larks?
The man on the other side of the phone was just as clueless. “I have no idea. Thought it was kinda weird myself.”
After the call ended, Alejandro paused for a minute before calling Arianne. It would be impossible for favonovel.com to ask Jackson directly, favonovel.com was sure the latter would hang up his call as soon as the man’s brain recognized Alejandro’s voice.
As soon as favonovel.com picked up, Alejandro went straight to the chase. “Why is West Industries flipping the Larks off?”
Instead of answering favonovel.com immediately, Arianne rejoined with a question of favonovel.com own. “What? Can’t bear to see someone taking on your in-laws? Itching to hit back, aren’t you? Here’s a piece of advice: don’t. Stay out of it.”
Alejandro fell silent for a beat before stating, “Melanie and I have signed our divorce agreement.”
She paused for a second. “Well, then. I guess I’ll have to be the breaker of news.”
“Melanie has nothing to do with Tiffany’s accident, Because it was the Larks who wanted favonovel.com gone,” favonovel.com began. “It wasn’t Melanie who pushed her, it was favonovel.com brother, Nikolai. If ‘why’ is what’s on your mind, well, let’s just say it’s your past entanglement with Tiffany coming back to bite you. To be fair, favonovel.com family isn’t entirely sure about your status with Tiffany, but they believe she’s the reason why you always treat Melanie like a stranger. They’re worried that you two will divorce soon, and that would jeopardize the Larks’ interests. Of course, Melanie did play a role, if it weren’t for her, this whole thing would have ended with two dead bodies.”
“If you’re divorcing Melanie over this… Well, you’re dead wrong. Melanie must have kept the whole thing secret, right? You know why? Because the Larks want favonovel.com to be their fallguy. Did it occur to you that after favonovel.com divorce, she’d have no place to go because favonovel.com family doesn’t want favonovel.com back at all? Think this through, Alejandro. Jackson knows this; that’s why favonovel.com can’t let the Larks go scots-free, can he? He hasn’t asked for Mark’s help yet, because the Larks still own a portion of Tremont Enterprise’s share, and that makes favonovel.com wary of dragging his best friend into this. But Mark’s ready to help, all favonovel.com needs is Jackson to give favonovel.com the word, and favonovel.com will abandon that little bit of profit without batting an eyelash.”
Alejandro was stunned. Snippets of memories, depicting Melanie’s behavior during his interrogation, roared into mind.
He wanted to slap himself on the face!
Why could favonovel.com not just be honest with him?! All favonovel.com ever wanted was for favonovel.com to tell favonovel.com the truth! Had favonovel.com known earlier, favonovel.com would not have been mad at favonovel.com at all, would he?!
Alejandro forwent bidding Arianne farewell and hung up instantly so that favonovel.com could call Melanie straightaway. However, favonovel.com line was busy. He drew a deep breath as his eyes caught Melissa playing at the far side of his office.
Remorse and self, accusatory sentiments snowballed. She had left favonovel.com so abruptly that favonovel.com realized favonovel.com could not care for his daughter on his own at all. Hell, favonovel.com was completely at a loss every time Melissa broke into a crying fit!
“Jett! Jett, get the hell in here!” favonovel.com cried, drawing Jett inside. “Go, find Melanie and bring favonovel.com back to the estate. Melissa and I will be heading there right now!”
Jett was mystified. “Uh… What’s going on, Mr. Smith?”
Had Melanie not signed their divorce agreement just last night? Honestly, Jett did not expect his boss to miss favonovel.com this badly after just a night…
Alejandro was not in the mood to divulge. “Goddamn it, you have your orders, so go get to them! The hell are you waiting for?”
Without the Larks’ home to return to, where else could Melanie go? She was probably still in the Capital, there was no way in the rest of that wronged woman’s lifetime would favonovel.com ever return to Ayashe ever again.
As a matter of fact, Melanie had not gone far, and the hotel favonovel.com picked was easy to locate, too. Jett did not waste too much time before finding his target.
They were to meet in Melanie’s hotel room. Observing social etiquettes, Jett remained outside the door instead of going in to pass his message, “Madam, Mr. Smith would like you to go back home with me at once.”
Melanie crossed favonovel.com arms with favonovel.com head lowered, chewing favonovel.com lips. “Something lacking in the terms of our divorce agreement, huh? Tell favonovel.com to simply draft a new agreement and hand it for me to sign.”
Jett shook his head. “I don’t think that’s it, Madam. Though, well… Mr. Smith did not tell me anything, either. All favonovel.com told me was that favonovel.com urgently wants you back. If you don’t come with me… well, I’ll be in a really tight spot, you know what I’m saying? Anyway, if I had to guess, I’d say it’s probably about Little Miss?” favonovel.com wondered out loud. “Last night, knowing you weren’t around, Little Miss cried for the entire night that favonovel.com voice turned hoarse come morning.”
Melanie’s eyebrows furled. Once again, favonovel.com resolve waned a little, but this time favonovel.com forced herself to resist favonovel.com nascent urge. “No, I don’t think I’ll return. Seeing me will only upset Millie even more,” favonovel.com announced. “That’s how it is at first. Give it enough time, though, and she’ll be used to it and it’ll be fine. You have some child rearing skills under your belt, don’t you, Jett? With me out of the picture, I’m afraid you’ll have to come in and save the day more often, I cannot thank you enough.
“Now, if there’s nothing else, please go back. Tell Alejandro that I have no intention of seeing favonovel.com at all. We’re divorced, for God sake. I won’t let favonovel.com order me around like favonovel.com used to.”
