Tiffany was shocked. “What? Why? Why are you in the hospital? What happened?”Arianne’s voice was a little weak. “I’ll tell you when you’re here…”After the call was hung up, Tiffany put down the spatula in her hand and hurried toward the door. “Where are you going?” Lillian quickly asked when she saw her leaving.Tiffany couldn’t be bothered to explain in detail. “I need to go to the hospital. Probably won’t make it back tonight. I’ve prepared two dishes, just put up with them. Leave the dishes after you’re done. I’ll wash them when I’m back!”Lillian threw a glance at the kitchen and frowned in dissatisfaction. “Just two small plates of vegetables? No matter how much you’re in a hurry, you should at least make sure your mother is well fed.”Tiffany’s hands stopped while she was in the middle of changing her shoes. Her face sunk a little. “Mom, I’m exhausted… I have to work everyday and work part-time until late at night. You’re perfectly capable of learning how to cook or do som
Tiffany resisted the urge to retort. “Thank you for your reminder, boss. I will take note of that.”Jackson wasn’t actually that much older than her, yet he was putting on airs in front of her. She just really couldn’t stand the way he was patronizing her.Tiffany let out a long sigh of relief when they reached the hospital. She held onto the last trace of her sanity to smile and bid Jackson farewell.When she entered Arianne’s ward, she was shocked to see how weak Arianne was. Her face was strangely pale, and even her usually red lips were as pale as her face. “Ari, what happened?”Arianne propped herself up and forced a smile. “Sit down first… Let me get comfortable...”Tiffany helped Arianne to sit up. She was fuming by the time she learned of the whole story. “That Aery Kinsey is a bitch! She’s trying to kill you! I hope karma gets her for the things she’d done. Don’t worry, Ari, there’s surveillance cameras everywhere, so she can’t get away with it. Since you are Mark Tremont
Tiffany sighed after hearing her answer. “I think I get it now. There’s no way your married life is a harmonious one. Maybe you are jittery even on his bed. Marriage is all about adjusting to each other’s lives. Feelings can develop out of sex. When a man loves you enough, he will be willing to listen to you. Otherwise, you would have to bow and scrape before him for your entire life. Alright, there’s no use talking about all this now. You’ll just have to take one step at a time. I’ll be waiting to see Aery Kinsey eat her prison meal. You better rest well. There’s still a long road ahead of you, alright?”Arianne nodded then said nothing. Indeed, she could only take one step at a time for now.Soon enough, Mary came back to the hospital with a nutritious meal. Tiffany opened the food thermos and served up the porridge that contained a lot of supplements in it. “I’ll feed her.”Mary smiled at her since she also wished for someone to give Arianne company. “Alright. Oh yes, Ari, I hear
Helen tried her best to maintain her composure. “O-Of course... There’s no way I would make a mistake. At the time, Aery was fighting with me at home because she was out late and drinking the previous night. It was her friends who sent her home. The sports car was left at the venue and I had to send the chauffeur over to fetch it home the next day. Little did I expect an accident to happen along the way. I’m extremely confident in my memory. In any case, we are still the ones at fault since the chauffeur works for the Kinsey family. It’s your call to make, we will accept your decision.”Mark didn’t give her an immediate answer. Helen looked at him anxiously, biting her lip so hard that it was going to draw blood in the next second.After a while, Mark finally spoke up. “You are Arianne’s mother. Aery is her half-sister. This incident can only be settled privately outside of court. I’ll have someone stay behind and follow up with you. I’ll be leaving now, I have some other matters to
After cleaning up the mess, Tiffany was so exhausted that she no longer had the desire to move even a muscle as she plopped down on her bed. She thought for a moment then gave her mother a call. As soon as the call went through, she heard noises from the other end of the line. “Three bamboos! Wait! Game!”Tiffany didn’t even need to guess to tell that Lillian was playing mahjong again, and this vexed her. “Can you stop playing mahjong? It’s so late already and you’re still not back yet.”Lillian retorted back with even more anger. “Since you don’t seem to care about me anymore, I’ll do whatever I please, whether it’s going out to eat or playing mahjong. I’m not coming back tonight. I’m going to play all night! Do what you want and leave me alone!”Having her phone hung up on her gave Tiffany the urge to scream and vent her anger. If she weren’t worried about being reported for disturbing her neighbors, she would have yelled at the top of her lungs for a full ten minutes. If things c
Upon noticing that the situation wasn’t quite right, the front desk hurriedly called up Mark’s secretary. “Ellie, Mrs. Tremont is here looking for Mr. Tremont. I think she looks quite aggressive… She has someone with her too. I’ve never seen him before but he appears to be her butler or something…”The secretary acknowledged the information then hung up the phone. She got up and knocked on Mark’s office door. “Mr. Tremont, your wife is here.”She could hear Mark humming coldly in response from his office.The elevator very quickly arrived on the forty-sixth floor. Ellie Amore, who was already waiting by the elevator door, instantly wore a professional smile on her face at the sight of Arianne. “Mrs. Tremont, Mr. Tremont is in his office.”Arianne’s eyes were drawn to the fluffy slippers on Ellie’s feet that didn’t match the office attire she was wearing. She then remembered that Mark didn’t like being distracted by noises when he was working. Hence, they needed to be absolutely qui
After all the shock and fluctuating emotions, Arianne slumped in the car seat, feeling like an empty shell. “Let’s go back,” she said weakly.Thinking about the call from Helen that she had rejected earlier, she took out her phone and called back. The call was very quickly picked up and brought right to the point. “You knew it was Aery who hit me, right?”Helen choked on the other end of the line. “Ari… I’m sorry…My hands are tied. Both of you are equally important to me, but I have my difficulties too… I’m sorry…”Arianne sneered. “Sure, you have your difficulties. I deserved it. I deserved this miscarriage, I deserved being nearly killed. Didn’t you ask me for a favor before since you gave birth to me? I owed you the life you gave me, so now… I have repaid it with the life of my child. From now on, I don’t owe you anything else.”She immediately hung up after saying that and blocked Helen’s phone number in one go.After doing all that, she let out a long sigh of relief.As expe
Aery pouted at her. “I didn’t say anything, you said all that yourself… After all, that scandal from three years ago over an indecent photo of you and Will, shouldn’t you be avoiding him now, especially when you are already married to Mark dear? The child that you lost… was it really Mark’s? Can you be honest with me?”While saying all this, Aery was still blinking her huge and innocent-looking eyes. She was making it seem like she was unintentionally shooting her mouth off inappropriately in the public.Arianne’s response was surprisingly calm. “No, it’s not his. Are you satisfied? Now, can you take your things away and piss off?”Her statement instantly sent everyone into an uproar. No one expected that she would openly admit in public that she had cheated on Mark Tremont!Eric was shocked too. “Arianne, you can’t just spout nonsense! Don’t be angry, we’ll talk after work. Carry on with your work first. Aery, aren’t you going to find Mark? I’ll send you there!”Arianne accepted