Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1544

Arianne scanned the room while gesturing to Tiffany to shut up. “Are you crazy? We’re in the office here! Don’t shout so loudly at a moment like this. What’ll happen if someone overhears you, huh?”

Tiffany’s sensibilities finally caught on, and she lowered her voice. “Oop! I was just a little too shocked, okay? Like, I was so surprised, I forgot to control my volume. But come on! Being together in a room with an aunt like that? It really is a brand new hell every day… Sucks to be you, girl. Guess no one could beat Jackson’s mom in being The Best Mother-in-law Ever, huh? She has never so much as raised her voice at me, let alone rage at my face.”

Arianne pursed her lips. “Okay, okay, I concede! Your mother-in-law is the best in the whole wide world! Honestly, all I’m asking her right now is to let me live every day in peace. I just want Mark’s aunt to stop being so hostile with me, and let everyone carry on with their lives without any more fights. I really can’t stand how much she loves to remind us that Mary and Henry are ‘mere workers’ and whatnot, or how she loves taking Smore away from me and not letting me play with my own son. Hell, last night, we even had this big row, and it probably resulted in her losing an entire night’s sleep. And then she skipped breakfast this morning and had been caught with these puffy eyes like she’d been crying. She’s not coming to work today, too—supposedly because she wants to see a therapist. Well, damn straight she needs one! Who can endure her crazies, huh?”

“Preach, sister! If you can’t stand it, then I doubt Mark can endure it any longer,” Tiffany chimed in. “On one hand, his beloved wife; on the other, an aunt he cares about—no matter who he sides with, the man’s courting death either way. Originally, neither of you had any parent to please, so life’s always been just the two of you. And then some random aunt suddenly popped into the scene, and now, you have a mother-in-law outta nowhere. Worse, this woman isn’t even looking to be a good friend to ya’, and now, I seriously cannot imagine the two of you living your life under the same roof every day. Not even your own mom had ever brought you this much trouble; the hell with a mere aunt pulling off all these craps, huh?”

A few moments later, Melanie came to them, claiming that the meeting was coming to an end, and the men had begun moving on to some topics that she, as a woman, found inappropriate to listen to.

Melanie broke into a brief smile. “Oh, I see now. Well, she’s his aunt, so I doubt there’s much to do about her. All I can suggest is to do your best not to start a fight with her. Oh, if that’s impossible, maybe you can try hiding from her. She’s just an aunt, which means she’s the sort of relative you can choose to engage with or otherwise. So, if you don’t interact with her that much in the first place, there will be fewer conflicts, yes? Alex doesn’t like mingling with my family, which is kind of a good thing, personally. A lot of conflicts and fights arise when families live together, right? But if we all live separately, the distance between us can do wonders in glossing over their follies and flaws, amirite?”

Arianne understood what Melanie was suggesting, but how was she supposed to “hide from Aunt Shelly?” That shrew had declared herself to be a permanent resident of the Tremont Estate until the day she died, for Christ’s sake, and Arianne could not even tell if Shelly meant it. If she was going to do as she said, then God help Arianne before she kissed her sanity goodbye!