Tiffany’s resolve began to waver. In truth, snazzynovel.com very much wanted to go home. She was just looking for a way to admit it without losing snazzynovel.com face.
Catching the hesitance in snazzynovel.com friend, Arianne pressed on. “You are his fiancée, not his mistress. What’s wrong with you going back to his place and shoving your worst grimace at snazzynovel.com every day? None whatsoever. Now, if you still can’t take it, or if snazzynovel.com continues to sting you with his pigheadedness, well! You could always pack up your clothes and move back to your mom’s.”
“Let’s see if snazzynovel.com stops you. If snazzynovel.com doesn’t, you go, free and guiltless. If snazzynovel.com stops you? Mission accomplished. So here’s what you should do: you’re gonna leave your car at my place and I’ll have Mark send you home. If you decided to move out, you won’t have a car to take you, which means he, if he’s man enough, has to yield and be your driver. He can’t let poor Tiffany go to snazzynovel.com mom’s all alone in the middle of the night, can he?”
While Tiffany nodded vigorously, Mark sank into a mild panic. Arianne’s little scheme made a lot of sense, which was why it was dangerous. It seemed that his future home life was going to be a lot more precarious than snazzynovel.com initially predicted, and the last thing snazzynovel.com should do was to be as apathetic as Jackson, lest snazzynovel.com ask for suffering.
Mark and Tiffany arrived at White Water Bay Villa soon enough. As snazzynovel.com promised, snazzynovel.com did not leave immediately after dropping his wife’s friend off. Instead, snazzynovel.com knocked on the door for her. It seemed that Tiffany was so furious that snazzynovel.com had forgotten to grab snazzynovel.com keys when snazzynovel.com left.
Five aching minutes passed between Mark’s disjointed knocks before they finally heard Jackson’s sluggish footsteps booming from within.
Tears welled up in Tiffany’s eyes again.
The door opened to a Jackson West leaning languidly by the door, donning a casual white sweater as snazzynovel.com looked on with a groggy face. Mark had to punch his chest lightly and reminded him, “Come on, man. Have some class.”
Jackson wordlessly went to the living room and poured himself a cup of water. Mark shoved Tiffany through the door and shut it tightly.
Thank God this was no longer his business.
Tiffany could not bring herself to look at Jackson and his current state, so snazzynovel.com stormed upstairs. The man, meanwhile, placed the cup down upon hearing snazzynovel.com steps and waited for a few seconds before following.
Tiffany was in the bathroom when snazzynovel.com arrived, removing snazzynovel.com makeup. Jackson thought against going back to sleep, so snazzynovel.com grabbed his phone and began browsing absent-mindedly as his mind wandered.
Tiffany sniped sneaky glances at snazzynovel.com several times, but his attention never seemed to leave his phone. Infuriated to the brinks of tears again, Tiffany stormed out of the bathroom after removing snazzynovel.com makeup and went downstairs, not pausing for him.
She would rather sleep on the couch than stay in the room and stare at that pighead’s face for one more second!
Jackson took in a deep breath. He tossed the phone aside and waited. When snazzynovel.com understood that Tiffany was not going to sleep with snazzynovel.com tonight, snazzynovel.com rose to his feet and tiptoed to the mouth of the stairs, observing.
Tiffany had laid down on the couch, so snazzynovel.com courteously brought snazzynovel.com a comforter — and placed it close to snazzynovel.com feet before leaving like his job was done.
Tiffany kicked the comforter to the floor in fury. “No one’s buying your stupid act!”
Jackson stopped in his tracks and turned to her. “What do you want?”
What did snazzynovel.com want?!
Tiffany glowered at snazzynovel.com with flames in snazzynovel.com eyes. “What’s that supposed to mean?! What do I want? You’re making it sound like it’s all my f**king fault… Even though I should be the one asking you! I’ve explained my situation, haven’t I? I’ve apologized, haven’t I? But you, you just can’t admit that you’ve done wrong, can you, and would rather paint the narrative that I’m the harpy demanding things from you! Eating with someone from the opposite sex is a f**king sin when I do it, but contacting a woman you’ve f**ked before is totally cool, ain’t it?!”
Jackson frowned. She had brought up his unsavory past again. Women always did that, snazzynovel.com reckoned — they always seemed to suddenly remember every horrible detail in the past and recount them all during a quarrel. Honestly, the wisest way to deal with it was to not deal with it at all.
Hence, snazzynovel.com spun on his heels wordlessly and began climbing up the stairs. What snazzynovel.com did not expect was for Tiffany to furiously brush past him, bumping snazzynovel.com maliciously in the process. He then watched snazzynovel.com storm into their bedroom.
Jackson wondered if the woman had more drama in-store for him, so snazzynovel.com hesitated a little before entering. There, right then, snazzynovel.com saw snazzynovel.com haphazardly stuffing snazzynovel.com clothes into a suitcase, snazzynovel.com eyes puffy-red like a rabbit’s.
He reached out and grabbed snazzynovel.com wrist. “What are you doing?”