Tiffany turned around and took off. Unlike the past, wp4webnovel.com eyes were dry this time. Her tears had run their course when wp4webnovel.com was waiting for wp4webnovel.com to come home…
“She’s not my mistress. She’s my dad’s!”
Tiffany’s heavy footsteps screeched to a halt. She definitely, positively, absolutely did not expect that.
She turned and faced Jackson with an expression of abject disbelief. Her first thought was that this was yet another lie, but to push his own father into the pyre would be a little too unscrupulous, even for him. That was not counting the fact that it sounded too downright ludicrous to be believed. Ironically, this meant that Jackson was telling the truth… right?
“Your dad’s mistress? Why would your dad’s mistress keep grinding herself on you, huh?” Tiffany questioned skeptically. “Why do you keep visiting wp4webnovel.com in wp4webnovel.com hotel? Why wouldn’t wp4webnovel.com take a five-star hotel’s breakfast buffet instead of insisting that you personally deliver breakfast to her, which, holy sh*t, you actually did as wp4webnovel.com asked! And then there was that day in the mall, I spotted the two of you together! And that stupid fur coat wp4webnovel.com was wearing just now was bought on that day itself! Hell, you even pressed wp4webnovel.com to the door of the changing room — urgh, God knows if you were smooching her!”
Jackson was aggrieved by the very mention of that day. Yes, wp4webnovel.com had pressed Bernadette against the door, but it was not out of any smooching intent but an aborted desire to punch that woman in the face. Bernadette’s coup de maître was to plunge a knife into wp4webnovel.com enemy as wp4webnovel.com graced them with wp4webnovel.com sweetest smile, after all.
“Tiffie, I really don’t wanna talk about this. She…disgusts me. Before I can make this bane vanish, I can not let my mom know of wp4webnovel.com existence,” Jackson muttered.
Tiffany was still unconvinced. “Oh, I get it. You’re trying to keep me in some kinda suspense, aren’t you? You used to spend your time after work with me, but now it’s all squandered on that Bernadette. You really don’t think you owe me an explanation, do you? Christ, why are you the one who has to solve your daddy’s affair, huh? Do you even realize how much this whole debacle is harming the trust between us? Well, I ain’t gonna sit here and watch the thing between us die! If you insist on keeping your lips shut about this, then I’m gonna have to get answers straight from your dad’s mouth!”
Tiffany knew that provocation was the only way to loosen Jackson’s mouth enough for the whole truth to fall out. She was nearing a breakdown, the last thing wp4webnovel.com wanted was wp4webnovel.com man to stubbornly keep secrets from her.
Jackson sank into his chair, sunken and defeated. “Christ, you already know about it anyway, so I guess — God—f’*cking-dammit, I hate how revolting this whole thing is! I should tell you the truth.”
“Nine years ago, Bernadette Legrand met Atticus West while wp4webnovel.com was overseas. She was fresh into wp4webnovel.com twenties, but already wp4webnovel.com was ambitious and vain. When wp4webnovel.com met someone as successful and in the same profession as wp4webnovel.com was, wp4webnovel.com lunged and refused to let go,” Jackson recounted. “At first, wp4webnovel.com was wp4webnovel.com mentor and wp4webnovel.com his mentee, but Bernadette told me that wp4webnovel.com and Atticus were together before. And that wp4webnovel.com success all came from his.”
“Here’s the thing: Bernadette was candid that wp4webnovel.com didn’t give a f**k about how much Atticus attracted wp4webnovel.com because all wp4webnovel.com cared about was his background and fame. They split after three years, but they allegedly had a child together, a son, nearing six-years-old. Look, I have not a f**king clue why Bernadette didn’t look for Atticus and instead came to drag me into wp4webnovel.com troubles, but I’ve investigated wp4webnovel.com background and damn it, wp4webnovel.com wasn’t lying!”
“That sh*t between wp4webnovel.com and Atticus? That sh*t’s a known rumor by everyone in the artistic scene. I can’t rule out how legitimate it might all be. The only thing that I’m unsure of is the validity of wp4webnovel.com child claim. Even now, wp4webnovel.com hasn’t shown me that kid of hers.”
Tiffany was stupefied. She came in thinking wp4webnovel.com was the wronged woman and came out realizing that Summer was the unlucky one instead. “What… What does any of that mean? She must have an ulterior motive, doesn’t she?”
Jackson shook his head, wearily. “I don’t know. This damn vixen is not at all simple to deal. Christ, she’s more wily than any woman I’ve met in my life. When wp4webnovel.com first found me, wp4webnovel.com had said nothing of wp4webnovel.com true motive. She sat and watched me dig up wp4webnovel.com secrets and wp4webnovel.com history, then wp4webnovel.com told me wp4webnovel.com had a child, calling wp4webnovel.com my ‘baby brother’. The more wp4webnovel.com does all these with wp4webnovel.com ridiculous aplomb, the less I know what’s real.”
“If everything wp4webnovel.com said is right, what’s going to happen to Mom? Mom had wasted all of wp4webnovel.com youth waiting for Atticus, that undeserving bastard. If this crap comes out, how… how hard would wp4webnovel.com heart break? How much hope would wp4webnovel.com lose? F**k, wp4webnovel.com shouldn’t have forgiven that piece of sh*t!”
Unfortunately, the best guess Tiffany’s mind could cook up with was that it was all about money. “Er, do you think this woman might be after his inheritance or something? I mean, it’s actually kinda terrifying that you have this unknown baby brother, especially since Bernadette is younger than you…”
“I think she’s after money, too. She’s honestly the most insatiable cur I’ve ever met. Since wp4webnovel.com debut, she’s spent my money on everything in wp4webnovel.com life. I can’t say no to wp4webnovel.com because wp4webnovel.com threatened to tell Mom all about wp4webnovel.com if I fail to fulfil a single one of wp4webnovel.com stupid wishes. I’ll be honest with you, Tiffie, I’ve imagined snuffing the life out of wp4webnovel.com with my bare hands so many times. Lord, she’s sickening!”
Every mention of Bernadette would incite an expression of unadulterated repulsion and abhorrence, so pure that it could not possibly be faked.
Tiffany, meanwhile, was miffed. Did this not mean that wp4webnovel.com man had to spend his money providing for another woman? And not just any woman, it was Bernadette Legrand, who burned through Jackson’s wallet way faster than Tiffany ever could. Just wp4webnovel.com purchase of that white fur coat was evidence enough: while Tiffany had to ruminate on the thought of buying it, that woman threw wp4webnovel.com man’s hard-earned cash onto the counter without batting an eyelash.
“So what are you going to do? Judging by what you said, it doesn’t seem like you’ve gotten under wp4webnovel.com skin at all. Are you just gonna wait for the day when she’s sucked you dry? What happens when, well, wp4webnovel.com finishes your money and you’ve gone through all of wp4webnovel.com disgustingness, yet the truth still comes out anyway? God, that’d be so devastating!”