Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1703

Tiffany did not think Jackson looked like he was lying, so she dismissed him with a wave. “Okey-dokey, then. You can go back to making tea now. Oh, make one of them a little bit lighter on the taste, please? That will be for me. And also, don’t listen in on our conversation, hon—we’re discussing womanly secrets. It’s the kind of stuff y’all boys are forbidden to hear.”

Jackson laughed. “As if I’m interested to begin with! I wouldn’t want to listen to ‘em even if you wanted me to!”

Since she got no lead from Jackson, Tiffany was just as at a loss of explanation now. “I don’t know how to say this properly, but Ari… You know what men are like, right? They are animals, you catch my drift? You said he hadn’t been seeing you or Smore for a while, and he keeps saying he’s got something to mind every day after work… Like, what work, man? Is he really so damn busy that he can’t even send you home? He’s not even talking about restoring y’all’s marriage anymore, the hell does that mean?… An affair?”

An affair?!

Arianne furrowed her eyebrows. “Look, even if he’s got someone else out there, you can’t call it an affair, technically-speaking. We are divorced, ‘member? But, uh… Do you really think… Well, that he’s got someone else now? Um, I was the one who suggested we split back then so even if he has a new girl, I mean—I think?—I’ve got nothing to comment, really. But he still treats me differently from the way he does with everyone else! He’s stringent and austere with everyone in the office, but when he’s with me, he smiles, and he has this softness in his voice—”

“Girl, he’s still being nice to you because his son is with ya, okay? Because you’re the mother of his fruit-of-his-loins!” Tiffany interjected with a bombshell counterargument. “Besides, he practically raised you since you were a kiddo. How badly can he treat you? And on the issue of that divorce. You weren’t the one who wanted it; it’s because his aunt forced it to happen, mmkay? You really think he’s ignorant of that fact? But that’s not the point, ‘course. The point is if he really does have another woman in mind, he’s gonna get a piece of me!”

Arianne sank her back onto the couch in annoyance. Her mistake was to think that Tiffany’s not-very-superb brain could help her solve her conundrum, because the latter was obviously only going to make things even more confusing.

Suddenly, Smore ran to them and asked, “Aunt Tiffany, why isn’t Lil’ Pee-pee here?”

Tiffany burst out laughing. “It’s Lil’ P, kiddo! Not Lil’ Pee-pee! Jesus Christ, how is it that you could speak like an orator at everything else but struggle with calling my son, hmm? Anyway, Lil’ P is with his granny at the moment, sweetie. Aunt Tiffany’s belly is a little too big to take care of him, that’s why. If you wanna play with your buddy, though, you should tell me earlier. I’ll bring him over for sure!”