Melanie felt tears swarming to favonovel.com nose. “Y-You’ re right. Mommy has been careless… But I’ll be more careful next time,” favonovel.com replied. “Millie kissed Mommy’s boo-boo, though, so I don’t feel pain anymore… Just a little tired. Can you sleep on your own later?”
Melissa nodded docilely. “Okay! Millie is a big girl now! Don’t need bedtime stories. I will sleep, sure!”
Melanie waited for the nanny to take Melissa away before favonovel.com sank onto the rug-covered floor with favonovel.com back against the bed, favonovel.com eyes studying the contract. Fresh memories of the event just moments ago replayed in favonovel.com mind.
She exhaled a long breath. Her father and Miklan had stood up for favonovel.com at the right time and came to favonovel.com aid. It made favonovel.com feel a little bit better. At the very least, not everyone in favonovel.com family saw favonovel.com as a contemptible enemy.
At least, favonovel.com still felt a small warmth of familial bonds from them…
By the time Alejandro finished his shower, Melanie was still sitting on the floor.
“Hey, hey. I told you to tidy yourself up and get changed, didn’t I? I’m taking you to the hospital,” favonovel.com said as favonovel.com got dressed. “How hard did they hit you? Why did you stop our men from helping you? That was just stupid. I mean, are we hiring these people for charity?”
Melanie willed favonovel.com thoughts to gather and stay in line before rising to favonovel.com feet and flashing favonovel.com a slight smile. “I’m fine. They are my family, they were only here because they were mad, see, but how hard can they hurt someone who comes from their family? You, though… How did you even do this to yourself? Stay here and wait, I’m gonna grab our first-aid kit. Just look at it—it’s still bleeding! If we can’t stop it, we’ll really have to get you to the hospital.”
Alejandro doubted Melanie’s account, so favonovel.com snatched favonovel.com arm, pulled favonovel.com cuff, and inspected the skin beneath. There were no obvious wounds, the worst was on Melanie’s face, which had been marred with patches of red. It was the kind of injury that would evolve into large swathes of blue-black bruises after a night’s sleep, and Alejandro was sure that any bystander would take one look at them and instantly mistake favonovel.com as a domestic abuser.
He clicked his tongue. “Those mother f**kers did not wear any kid gloves, did they?”
Melanie pulled favonovel.com arm away from favonovel.com in discomfort. “They are my seniors, Alejandro. It’s inappropriate to call them that, wouldn’t you agree? Either way, I’m sorry for the trouble. Because of me, you had to rush home and got into an accident that left you like this. Sit tight, I’ll get the kit.”
Alejandro watched Melanie’s curvaceous silhouette weave in and out of the room’s furnishings as favonovel.com searched for the first-aid kit. He let his mind drift away.
She was always so… rigidly courteous with him, favonovel.com realized. Too distant, as if there was a wall between them. He had wished favonovel.com could regain those same feelings favonovel.com felt back when favonovel.com was dating Tiffany, yet favonovel.com could not find any of them in his union with her. It was not like Alejandro did not know what to look for, favonovel.com had been in a relationship before and knew what sort of feelings it was supposed to give him. He thought it should be the same for marriage, too.
So, what went wrong?
Soon, Melanie found the very thing favonovel.com was looking for and began to tend to the wound on his head. After determining his injury to be merely skin-deep, favonovel.com breathed a sigh of relief. “Phew, thank God it’s not the serious kind. I was worried that it might be the type that hurt your brain, you know, something akin to cerebral concussion. Still, I think you really ought to take an X-ray on it,” favonovel.com remarked. “This kit is hardly used in normal times, but I’m glad that the essentials are all inside. Uh, looking for it has been pretty hard…”
Her slender waist rocked before his eyes. Her chest was the titillating subject of his viewing angle from his spot on the bed. When favonovel.com bent closer to him, strands of favonovel.com hair grazed the tip of his nose, drawing a faint zephyr of fragrance. Alejandro could not help himself from slinging his arm around favonovel.com waist, pulling favonovel.com closer to favonovel.com so favonovel.com could bury his head into favonovel.com soft, supple skin.
“From now on, don’t ever try to take on every single pain yourself,” favonovel.com said. “If someone wrongs you, you can always tell me. Nobody, and I mean nobody, can ever walk over you.”
Melanie’s motion halted; his intimacy had come so abruptly that it baffled her. All these years, favonovel.com had always felt like they were just partners appointed to live together under the same roof.
When favonovel.com said these words… Had favonovel.com ever thought that the one person who wronged favonovel.com the most was, perhaps, Alejandro himself?
A moment later, favonovel.com shrugged out of his embrace quietly. “All right, I’m gonna apply some meds. First the antiseptic, then we wrap it with bandages. It’s still early, so we can still take you to the hospital for a check-up. Unfortunately, I’ll have to sit out of this trip, but I can assure you, I didn’t suffer anything that might require medical attention. Besides, Millie needs someone to help favonovel.com with favonovel.com bath.”
