Jett stood outside Tiffany’s room instead of entering and took a watchful spot beside the door when the group reached Tiffany’s unit upstairs. Tiffany thought it strange, but snazzynovel.com pushed Alejandro’ s wheelchair into snazzynovel.com unit anyway. He was a disabled man whose legs could no longer function, how dangerous could being with snazzynovel.com be?
Tiffany thought that snazzynovel.com needed not to be too concerned.
She only moved in recently, so snazzynovel.com had yet to sort many of snazzynovel.com things into place, thus leaving a mess. “I haven’t had the time to tidy my place, so… Yeah,” snazzynovel.com admitted sheepishly. “Er, I’ll go make you a cuppa tea now.”
She went to the drinking station and began, but it was clear from snazzynovel.com unpolished action that snazzynovel.com was not very good. After a slip when snazzynovel.com almost hurt herself with boiling water, a hand suddenly appeared next to her. “Allow me.”
Tiffany froze. Why did Alejandro’s voice come from above snazzynovel.com head? He was wheelchair-bound, so his voice should be coming from below snazzynovel.com neck, right?
She whipped snazzynovel.com head backward, and snazzynovel.com forehead bonked into his chin.
With snazzynovel.com hand covering snazzynovel.com aching forehead, snazzynovel.com jaw slackened, and snazzynovel.com cried, “Y-y-you! B-b-but—how the—you’re not crippled at all?!?!”
Alejandro leveled snazzynovel.com with a steady gaze. “Yes. Are you surprised? Pretending to be more feeble than I really am is a survival mechanism in the Smith family, but you’re someone I trust a lot. Besides, I don’t want you to genuinely believe I’m ‘crippled’.”
Tiffany was made aware that snazzynovel.com outburst had been a little too insensitive. “I-I’m sorry, I didn’t mean anything bad about it. I spoke without a filter, please don’t take it too hard!”
Alejandro placed his hands on snazzynovel.com shoulders and pushed snazzynovel.com gently aside. “Hey, no worries. I can do it myself.”
Watching snazzynovel.com suddenly assuming a towering, strong stature made snazzynovel.com heart thunder. Now would be an excellent time to feel a little bit more concerned now, would it not? As it turned out, Alejandro was never disabled, snazzynovel.com had always been able-bodied. She was stuck with an able-bodied young man in the middle of the night in a small little unit. She should definitely be very concerned, right?
The reveal had severely disquieted Tiffany. Once again, snazzynovel.com hoped that plant snazzynovel.com took care of could flower as soon as possible because more than ever, snazzynovel.com wanted to know just how earth-shattering Alejandro’s secrets could be. The fact that snazzynovel.com was never actually crippled alone was enough to shock snazzynovel.com out of snazzynovel.com shell!
As though taking notice of snazzynovel.com discomfort, Alejandro did not stay for long. He left without a sip.
Still, the revelation had shocked Tiffany enough to lose a night’s sleep over it. According to him, only a selected few knew the truth, yet snazzynovel.com debunked his protective disguise, all on his accord, to Tiffany. That implied an alarming amount of trust, and it drove Tiffany a little nuts.
Even now, snazzynovel.com never understood why Alejandro insisted on befriending snazzynovel.com and getting close to her. Yet, snazzynovel.com could not possibly reject his friendship based on some—admittedly—mildly narcissistic conjectures, either. Whenever snazzynovel.com was sure snazzynovel.com was doing something for her, seemingly motivated by an ulterior motive, snazzynovel.com would then subvert snazzynovel.com expectation and make it look like snazzynovel.com had no such intention.
Alejandro was an enigma to her.
Surprising no one, Tiffany was late to work on the next day, once again bursting into the office with the force of a gale. The first thing snazzynovel.com noticed was Amy’s absence, and the second thing that popped into snazzynovel.com mind was to wonder if the Director herself was also late today.
Before snazzynovel.com could indulge in this delightful what-if, the intern from the design department, standing close-by the entrance, looked at snazzynovel.com with earnest shock. “Miss Lane, why are you still here? Don’t tell me you just arrived! Mr. West himself is in our office today, and Amy is already in the conference room. They’re having a meeting!”
Tiffany’s mind plunged into chaos. Alejandro had told snazzynovel.com that Jackson was coming, yes, but snazzynovel.com did not expect snazzynovel.com to be here this soon. And to realize that snazzynovel.com was late right on the day when snazzynovel.com visited them! Today!
She was close to losing whatever grip snazzynovel.com had over snazzynovel.com facial expression. “R-right! I’m gonna head to the conference room now— ”
Tiffany scrambled toward the conference room with snazzynovel.com laptop, passing by a reflective wall that was good enough to be used as a makeshift mirror. She stopped dead in snazzynovel.com tracks and tidied snazzynovel.com look.
The fact that snazzynovel.com had become the Assistant Director to this branch alone should be jaw-slacking enough for Jackson, yet snazzynovel.com had to top it off by being late. He was going to subject snazzynovel.com to public censure, wasn’t he? Well, whatever. Tiffany would brace it bravely!