Melanie suddenly laughed. “It’s fine, I understand what you meant. We… haven’t gotten a divorce. The divorce papers have been signed, but he ended up tearing them apart afterward. He seemed to have changed his mind when he found out that it wasn’t me who pushed you. I have no idea what’s going on in his mind. I even thought… that he wouldn’t let me off the hook even if he found out that it was my brother who’d done it.”
Tiffany patted her chest as she heaved a sigh of relief. “That’s impossible! I think you should’ve told him the truth long ago. Alejandro isn’t that kind of person; he definitely wouldn’t have vented his anger on you if you weren’t a part of it. Furthermore, whatever that’s happened between me and him is long but buried in the past, so there’s no way he would seek revenge on my behalf! Although he’s now become Alejandro Smith, I still vaguely understand his temper from when he was still Ethan Connor. Since the both of you aren’t divorced, then you should live together happily. I think the two of you are quite compatible with each other. He’s someone who’s extremely bad while you’re the complete opposite of him—isn’t there something to describe both of you? Oh! The both of you mutually reinforce each other!”
Melanie quietly pondered about what Tiffany had just said. ‘We are reinforcing each other mutually? This seems to be quite deep to be used to describe me and Alejandro. However, now that I think about it… I haven’t completely cast aside the idea of getting a divorce.’ Melanie recalled how happy and how glorious she felt when she first got married to Alejandro, then she recalled how sad and devastated she felt currently. ‘All of this that’s happened, aside from Alejandro not loving me, is all caused by the Larks.
‘If things really go as Alejandro has planned, the Larks are probably going to hate me forever after he’s taken over their business and passed all of it over to me to manage. I can’t bear to have my family members scorning and insulting me everyday, but I also can’t bear to have Alejandro stay by my side as a constant reminder that our marriage is purely business, no love involved.’
Melanie was well aware that their marriage had been established for business reasons, but it was a fact that she had fallen for him as well. She thought that Alejandro would be able to develop feelings for her as time passed, but she had not expected for it to end up becoming a habit for her to exist in his life. ‘Alejandro probably meant that he can’t get used to not having me in his life if I were to leave, didn’t he? He’s probably used to the lifestyle where he focuses on his work outside while I take care of the family at home, used to how I don’t interfere in his matters while I help him take care of our daughter. However, all of this isn’t the kind of love that I want.
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