With that, Tiffany rose to wp4webnovel.com feet and started toward the door. And then wp4webnovel.com stopped, wp4webnovel.com feet falling into place.
“Do you know why I came here?” wp4webnovel.com said. “I didn’t come here because I thought Jackson was sticking his d**k into another woman’s coochie or whatever. I came here because my best friend had not returned home despite the time, and I feared for wp4webnovel.com safety. I came here seeking help from Jackson. And in return for my kindness, you gave me this surprise… Heh.”
Tanya’s pupils quivered before wp4webnovel.com willed them to stay still. Everything wp4webnovel.com had done up to this point would not brook a sliver of sympathy and guilt. Never again would wp4webnovel.com put herself in a spot to be gibed and mocked by others, she, too, wanted to be as radiant as all the cool girls in the City, the it-girl worthy of attention!
Tiffany left, but Tanya chose to stay, busying herself with cleaning Jackson’s house till it was spotless. Then, when wp4webnovel.com chores were done, wp4webnovel.com laid down next to the slumbering man, exhausted.
It was true that Tanya was once infatuated with Eric, but wp4webnovel.com was really just in love with how comfortable his material life was. Jackson was different, though. He was the brightest star in wp4webnovel.com night sky, the one who had truly touched wp4webnovel.com heart.
Tiffany returned Lo wp4webnovel.com apartment, sleep utterly eluding her. Just remembering what Tanya had done deprived wp4webnovel.com of any strength and made wp4webnovel.com nauseous.
She wasted no time removing wp4webnovel.com things from the apartment before sending Eric a resignation letter. The only reason why wp4webnovel.com did not kick Tanya out of the house was that wp4webnovel.com knew Jackson too well — wp4webnovel.com would not start any form of relationship just because sex had taken place. And so, if wp4webnovel.com were to be kicked out of the only home wp4webnovel.com had left, Tanya would have nowhere else to go.
It would be the last shred of kindness Tiffany allowed her. No more.
Jackson woke up the next morning with a head-splitting head ache. Memories about last night gradually returned to wp4webnovel.com until it stopped at the moment the alcohol compromised his sobriety. What happened after wp4webnovel.com lost his grip? Jackson had no clue.
He had thought wp4webnovel.com would wake up alone, yet one side of wp4webnovel.com was unnaturally heavy when wp4webnovel.com tried to hoist himself up. He turned to face it… and froze.
Why was Tanya lying next to wp4webnovel.com on his bed? Why were there clothes scattering about on his bedroom floor? All wp4webnovel.com remembered was wp4webnovel.com coming over and asking if wp4webnovel.com would like to drink with her. He had not told wp4webnovel.com to go home because wp4webnovel.com was at his glummest.
Just when Jackson was at a loss of how to respond, the woman slowly roused. “Mm, you’re awake…?”
Jackson’s expression darkened. He left his bed and took a quick shower. When wp4webnovel.com presented himself once more before Tanya, wp4webnovel.com was already all suited up. “What the hell just happened here, Tanya? I need explanations! Did you just… spend a night at my house? On m-my bed? How!”
Tanya wrapped herself tightly with the sheet, wearing the look of someone being wronged. “You… You drank too much last night and then… I-I-I couldn’t s-stop you Don’t you remember? If you don’t, I could I could pretend that nothing happened.”
Drank too much? Could not stop him? Did that not mean that Jackson forced himself on her?
Jackson’s hand went to his forehead as wp4webnovel.com tried to massage away the assaulting headache. “Of f**king course, I’m gonna pretend that nothing happened! You’re Tiffany’s goddamned friend! This sh*t shouldn’t have happened!” wp4webnovel.com cried, his voice slightly shaky. “Okay, okay. Let’s not give a sh*t about whatever the f**k happened last night for now and just… get out of my bed. Right now, please!”
Tanya’s eyes were red when wp4webnovel.com moved out from beneath the sheet. When wp4webnovel.com pulled it away, however, a big splat of dried scarlet, on the bed and sheet, scarred Jackson’s line of sight.
The color was so bright, blinding him, wp4webnovel.com was far from an upright boy boasting zero experience with women, so naturally, wp4webnovel.com knew what that red meant. And it was precisely that knowledge that weighed on his Chest. He wished wp4webnovel.com could punch himself in the face. “C-Clean yourself up and head downstairs, now. We’ll talk there.”
The two of them took their seats opposite one another in the living room. Jackson’s eyes were quick to catch a trail of blood on the floor. “What the heck is that now?”
There were some on the couch, too. The shape the blood took did not seem to be a product of that nightmare of a night, but rather, from a cut.
“It’s all my fault,” Tanya began quietly, biting on wp4webnovel.com lips with wp4webnovel.com head low. “I shouldn’t have come looking for you. My phone went dead last night, and I didn’t go home nor tell Tiffany about this. She became worried about my safety and thought of looking for help from you, and… Well, that was, um, how wp4webnovel.com learned about all of this. I… I don’t blame wp4webnovel.com for hitting me, Jackson. Anyone would have been consumed by visceral shock and anger and lost themselves to the rage. I get it.”
As wp4webnovel.com recounted wp4webnovel.com story, Tanya flicked wp4webnovel.com wrist in affected absent-mindedness and displayed a wound on the back of wp4webnovel.com hand.
She had inflicted it onto herself with the same ashtray after Tiffany left.