A Ruling Passion – Chapter 1732

Melanie waited until Alejandro put his pen down before signing her name with equal resolute. She ended it with a print of her thumb, asking, “So, when do we begin the legal procedures?”

Alejandro didn’t answer her. Instead, he stormed out of the house and slammed the door.

Melanie’s knees buckled and she crashed onto the couch, her strength leaving her body. Tears broke out from the corner of her eyes and traced an invisible path down her face, its salty liquid stinging the painful heat that had yet left her cheek. A while later she rose to her feet and went into the bathroom.

She stared at her reflection in the mirror and suddenly felt a thick, awful lump furling in her chest. Mrs. Lark had put in more force than she expected, causing her cheek to swell even more than she had imagined. When Alejandro looked at her just now-she must have been a hideous sight to him, wasn’t she? He had never liked her, but after all of this, after Tiffany... He must hate her even more, did he not?

There was nothing left for her now. Nothing not even her daughter belonged to her.