Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1597

After dinner, Arianne and Mark watched Alejandro and Melanie leave. She entwined her arms with his before commenting, “You know, Alejandro’s pretty forgiving, isn’t he? If he’s really the sort to hold grudges, it wouldn’t have been remotely as easy to put this case behind us.”

Mark, however, still could not bring himself to say anything nice about Alejandro. “Hmph. His misfortune is none of my fault. Unlike Jackson’s case with Seaton, his is several leagues more embarrassing. For the record, he lost to my aunt, who doesn’t even know any martial arts,” he sneered.

A rather harsh remark to make, but Arianne had to admit that it was not wrong. Alejandro had gibed and mocked Jackson despite his plight back then, only to have his bum served by a woman a few months later. Could there be any stronger proof that karma exists?

While the two were in the car, Arianne asked half-jokingly, “You like daughters better, don’t you?”

“No. Sons are good,” Mark denied.

Arianne was not buying it. “Then why did you keep staring at Millie throughout dinner? You prefer daughters and it’s obvious! No use denying it,” she said. “Now, I know I can’t bear you another child, so we’ll have to hope that Tiffany’s baby is a girl. Then I can appropriate her as my own.”

“Tiffany? Pssh. Her daughter will probably take after her mom. Plenty of brawns but no brain to boot,” he sneered, a little scornfully. “That child’s gonna need to find herself a man with brains like Jackson, or she’s not going to survive.”

Nobody liked hearing their best friend being insulted. Arianne, upset, immediately leaped to Tiffany’s defense. “Excuuuse me, mister. You can’t talk about Tiffany like that! You just don’t know how to appreciate the depth of her character. Look at her, living the life of the blissfully ignorant… You’ll never be able to live like that, Mark. This is why you speak the ugly words of a jealous man! I’ve seen through you, Mark Tremont!”

Mark was amused. “Oh ho? You’ve seen through me?”

She pinched his earlobe playfully. “Saw through your flawless skin and found an ugly green-eyed monster underneath! But then again… I guess I have a big soft spot for jerks with a heart of gold like you, too...”

Street after street bathed in relentless, nipping nightly gales flitted across the car window. No one would notice a clandestine corner at the end of the sidewalk.