Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1194

Jessica’s raging fit eventually died, but in its wake, pure spite and malice lingered in her eyes.

Quickly, she booted up her laptop and disseminated the story between her and Sylvain out into the public. If her world was going to crumble, then she might as well drag someone down with her.

A few days later, the most recent development in Jessica's scandals made headlines back home. The strength of the gathered evidence, along with her affront to legality and common decency, effectively cemented Jessica as guilty. She was sentenced to three years of imprisonment.

The case’s ripple effect then passed onto famous male fashion designers who had worked closely with her. Since many of their illicit relationships with Jessica were also publicly outed, their future was more or less doomed.

Arianne was one of the last persons to have heard about the entire debacle. In fact, she only caught wind of it because her co-workers were engrossed in the discussion the scandal had sparked. Sure, Mark returned home a few days ago, but he had decidedly skirted around the details and oversimplified the conclusion as “it’s over now, relax.”

When Sylvain abruptly left the company, Mr. Yaleman had been downright heartbroken, calling it “the company losing its golden goose.” But after knowing about the troubles the very same Sylvain was now embroiled in, Mr. Yaleman’s mood skyrocketed enough that he broke his usual miserly streak today and bought coffee for everyone in the office. It was quite a magnificent example of schadenfreude.

Arianne brought a cup to Robin’s desk. “Here you go.”

Robin appeared distracted. “Oh, it’s just you, Arianne…. Um, I don’t do coffee, so you drink it.”

Arianne patted her on the back. “You heard about what happened to Sylvain, haven’t you? I bet it’s because Jessica wanted someone to suffer along with her. Honestly, all these years of working so hard for her, yet none of his efforts attracted an ounce of mercy in the end.”

Mr. Yaleman broke out a forced, coy chuckle. “Oops! Sorry. I’ll be going.”

The day quickly wound down to an end. As usual, Mark personally drove Arianne home from her company. En route, she remarked, “Sylvain probably didn’t expect Jessica, who was the one who brought him to his zenith, to also be the one to drag him all the way to his nadir, huh? All those juicy secrets between Jessica and Sylvain were only revealed a while after that woman’s travesties had gone public, so I know it wasn’t you. The best explanation I could come up with is that Jessica just wanted to drag someone to hell with her.”

“Nah, he predicted all of this,” Mark replied flatly. “I would have needed more time to gather her dirty secrets, but Sylvain removed that toilsome job from me by providing me with the precise information I needed. He wanted to protect himself, that Sylvain, which means he expected Jessica’s skeletons to be exposed to the public sooner or later. He knew what he was signing up for when he presented me with all of those incriminating pieces of evidence, yet still… he did it anyway. I have a nagging feeling that this is his payback for living under that woman’s iron grasp for too long.

“In fact, none of the guys, who erstwhile had no problem being intimate with Jessica, wanted to speak for her after this blew up. They’re only focused on defending themselves,” Mark pointed out. “It’s obvious. Theirs is a risky for-profit relationship. It was never anything beyond that.”