Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1733

“Where are you?”

Alejandro asked to the beep of a terminated call.

Instead of putting down his phone, he simply stayed in his posture, his mind churning unfathomable thoughts.

A while later, he finally put his phone down before gingerly placing Melissa back onto her bed. Perhaps something was wrong with the way he lowered her—either way, the feel of his movement was too dissimilar with Melanie’s that Melissa woke up before screaming for her mommy again.

Alejandro had lost his patience. Exasperated, he decided to let the child bawl and shriek to her heart’s content until Jett, who heard her from outside, knocked on the door. “Mr. Smith? Would you like me to help?”

Alejandro sat on the edge of the bed, defeated. “Yes, just coax her to sleep. I’m done.”

Jett pushed open the door. He adroitly brought Melissa up in his arms before gently rocking her. “Hush, hush. It’s alright, don’t you cry… Mommy will be back very soon.”

Melissa would not listen. She knew her mother was not around. Worse, night was the time when a young child felt most hapless and insecure; the only outlet to express her distress was through a crying fit.

It went on until daybreak before the kid finally fell back into slumber. By then, she had cried so much that her voice had dwindled into a croak.

Alejandro had lost an entire night’s worth of sleep. But he still discarded any plan to recover his lost winks, knowing full well that Melissa would wake up after two hours or so of sleep, and he would have to go back to soothing her.

Melissa’s mood was a lot less volatile during the day, though her lips were still pressed into a pout complementing her watery eyes as she pleaded with Alejandro to take her to her mother. Thinking that all the kid needed was an eye-catching, exciting distraction from outside to stop her from fixating on her mother, he brought Melissa to the office.

Food and toys made Melissa’s eyes twinkle brightly, but it was short-lived as her eyes dimmed. “Where’s Mommy?”

The personal assistant braved through the hard question with a non-answering coax, “We can play while I go and look for Mommy, okay?”

At the very least, it did not occur to Melissa that her mother’s absence was permanent. Still harboring hopes for her return, she began to play, though not without shooting some confirmatory glances at the door from time to time.

Suddenly, the phone on Alejandro’s desk rang. He picked it up. “Hello?”

It was from the marketing department. “Mr. Smith, I discovered something weird. It’s been two days, and the West Industries seems to have gone on an odd… scramble to snatch up every single customer of the Larks, causing the latter to lose out on revenues. Since the Larks are, well, your people, I thought you'd be interested with this report.”