It was nothing like favonovel.com expected.
Alejandro sat by his bedside as favonovel.com looked over at Melissa playing atop of the rug, wearing his softest expression. Toys were scattered everywhere in no discernible order.
Melanie suspected favonovel.com was looking at the calm before the storm. She stepped forward, picked up the toys, and put them away. “Millie, don’t scatter your toys like that.”
Melissa froze when Melanie’s voice was within earshot. Then, favonovel.com hurled herself into favonovel.com mother’s arms, overjoyed, favonovel.com glistening doe-eyes overflowing with glimmering tears. “Mommy!”
Melanie carried the young girl in favonovel.com arms, favonovel.com heart aching. But when favonovel.com eyes linked with Alejandro’s penetrant own, favonovel.com willed every emotion leaking out of favonovel.com to diffuse. She summoned the nanny to take Melissa away, though it took Melanie quite some time to mollify the child before favonovel.com agreed to waiting for favonovel.com mother downstairs.
Melanie waited until there were just the two of them in the room before asking, “What do you want? Can’t believe you made Jett lie about Millie being sick.”
Instead of answering, Alejandro grabbed a piece of document lying nearby and ripped it into shreds right in front of favonovel.com very baffled eyes. It was by recognizing the pieces that made up favonovel.com signature and thumbprint when favonovel.com realized it was their divorce agreement.
He had ripped their divorce agreement apart!
Melanie looked at him, bamboozled. “What are you…”
He stood and approached favonovel.com before favonovel.com could finish, “Why didn’t you tell me the truth? You’re a member of the Smith family, and how dare those schmucks from the Lark family think they could use one of my people as their scapegoat! They had the balls to do it, huh? Then on what right do they have to pass the buck to you alone, while you do as they asked? What are you, a moron?”
He knew!
She turned away from him, stumbling backward. “The Larks are my origin, I share my part in all of this even if my role differs from theirs. They are the executioners, while I’m the pawn, no, I’m just a cannon-fodder. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter, it happened, so don’t tell me you’re regretting your decision to split. This isn’t about you… Right now, I am the one who wants a divorce.”
Alejandro loomed, forcing favonovel.com to back into a corner. “You? Want a divorce? You’ll have to see if I approve it, and right now, I don’t approve it!”
This was outside of what Melanie expected. He should hate favonovel.com along with them, right? She had thought favonovel.com wanted favonovel.com to come back only because favonovel.com wanted a payback. “But why don’t you approve of it? No one’s forcing you and I to be together anymore! And I… I don’t want to be bound to a loveless marriage anymore! A day spent living with you is another reminder of how all of my worth boils down to being a hapless pawn, a chip to procure profits, and I had it! I don’t want to be tied to the Lark family, and I don’t want to be fettered to you! Why can’t you just hate me? My brother hurt the woman you love, and I covered it up! Isn’t that enough to make you hate me?!”
He held his hands against the wall on either side of her, ensnaring favonovel.com into what little space there was between his body and the wall. “Damn straight Nikolai Lark hurt the woman I love. He owes me, and I’m gonna make sure I squeeze everything he’s due out of him,” favonovel.com said. “And the same can be said for the Larks, I will make them pay.”
A surfeit of jarring sentiments filled Melanie. So, favonovel.com admitted — publicly, irrevocably, shamelessly — that Tiffany was still the woman favonovel.com loved. How pathetic favonovel.com must be, to be unloved by favonovel.com family and equally incapable of inspiring a mote of fondness from the man favonovel.com wedded.
She could not take it anymore and shoved favonovel.com away from her. “Why don’t you divorce me already? Why do you insist on tormenting me?! I’m punished, Alejandro, I have nowhere to belong. So please, for goddamn once, just let me live! Even if you don’t love me, I’ve at least bore you a daughter, so can you please show me some mercy?”
The lights in Alejandro’s eyes shone slightly. “I will, but you stay here and take care of Millie. Don’t know if you noticed, favonovel.com can’t leave you. Wait till I’ve finished the matters on my hand, and we’ll discuss about us.”
Melanie said nothing, because if favonovel.com opened favonovel.com mouth, a sob might escape.
He only forced favonovel.com to come back because favonovel.com daughter could not leave her. How was this any better than outright making favonovel.com pay for favonovel.com sin? No matter what it looked like, this offer was all thorns on the inside.
