A Ruling Passion – Chapter 1772

Jackson could not control himself and laughed hysterically, causing everyone to shoot glances at him. Hence, he forcefully stifled his laughter. “I’m sorry, I couldn’t hold it in for a moment there. Please ignore me and continue...”

That night, at Alejandro’ s manor.

Melanie paced around in her bed room. She was waiting for Alejandro to return home. She kept on calling and texting him, but Alejandro replied to neither. It had been a few days since Melanie had seriously told him she wanted to have a divorce, yet he had no intention of showing up at all. She no longer wanted to delay the matter; she had steeled her heart for it.

However, when she finally received a call, Melanie did not expected it to be from Mrs. Lark. ‘I suppose the only reason they’re calling me now is because they want money. They’ve been used to living extravagantly in the past, so now that the Larks have no more capital, they’re bound to fall short of money sooner or later. Therefore, they’ve now thrown everything onto me. Both she and Nikolai will come asking for more money every few days.’ However, despite not wanting to give them any money, including the fact that Melanie’ s dad had specifically asked her not to give them any, she still could not handle being pestered by Mrs. Lark and ended up giving her money once. From there, the situation merely worsened...

Melanie was extremely frustrated at that moment, so she rejected her call. However, Mrs. Lark so on called back again, and she had no choice but to answer since she was frustrated that Mrs. Lark might prevent Alejandro from calling her due to her constant calls. “Hello?”