LOVER MONSTER!
74. Confrontations.

[How are you doing this morning?]

[I'm good, why?]

[You should have asked me back, Jess.]

Today, when Jessica finished preparing for work, she checked her phone and received a message from Jake.

Considering Jessica is not a typical woman who has a dependence on electronic objects, she also answered Jake's question as if. Until then he was corrected.

"Dating through chat must have rules, yes?" Jessica talks to herself while replying to the messages Jake sends her.

Jessica doesn't know anything about the 'normal' rules of dating'. Jessica has no experience with this. Jessica just did the things she used to do.

He will not spontaneously turn into a sweet and noisy figure in front of his lover. He would not suddenly ask 'what is your breakfast menu today?' or 'When are you going down to work?'.

No, that's weird.

"Hahaha, does this matter?" Jessica laughed to herself as she read Jake's message asking him about 'What color is your dress today?'.

"Who is too stupid to ask this kind of question?" Jessica typed her reply on Jake and.., ekhmmm!

A woman cleared her throat next to Jessica, calling attention to her sudden existence there. That person, when Jessica turned her head, was Angela Lancaster and her delicate eyes.

Jessica put her phone on the table.

"What's up, Angela?"

"May I ask you for a minute, boss."

"Now?" Jessica hasn't had breakfast yet, and thinking that the person who asked her to talk was Angela, Jessica felt she had better breakfast than hearing the woman's nonsense again. Jessica did not want to ruin her mood by serving the girl of two hearts.

But.., true as well.

Jessica wants to know how Angela reacts to her relationship and Jake now. Does that girl still label her as a gold digger or, frankly, a matre chick?

"I'm just asking for a minute of your time" Angela said. The woman's expression was cold. His pair of brown eyeballs were like a pair of dead fish eyes.

"Alright, let's talk, Angela." Jessica would not want to defend the girl's will. He got off his stool and waltzed to follow Angela who invited him out of the cafe.

Damn, why talk outside?

"I hope you don't talk to me in Berlin, Angela." Jessica makes a joke while following Angela. "I'm not taking my passport now."

"I don't want to talk inside because I don't want to create any unpleasant rumors, Boss. That's why I'm asking you to talk here." Here what Angela meant was a narrow alley located beside Elixir.

A very familiar place, Jessica thought.

"I don't know what kind of bad rumors can arise from a short talk, Angela. Unless you intend to do something brutal, then only then can you create a bad rumor."

While Jessica was talking with her casual gesture, Angela on the other hand, held back her expression to keep her calm. He has crossed the limit of patience. She's been crying all day because of Jake and Jessica, and for God's sake, Angela wants this torment to end. He wants Jessica to be honest in front of him now!

"So, what do you want to talk about this early in the morning?" Jessica continued to talk, she was a little upset when the person who invited her to speak did not even voice anything from her mouth.

I'm sorry, Jessica's not a telepathic girl. Unless she's a mutant from a fantasy novel, then she can communicate with Angela without a word, but she's not. It was impossible for her to understand what Angela was thinking that the girl had not said anything.

"If you don't talk, I'll leave you. This is bullshit." Jessica made a threat, and when she turned around, she felt Angela's long fingernails sticking out of her wrists. Her skin's.

"Wait a minute" Angela said. "I haven't said anything!"

"Eat, talk! don't waste my time!"

"You think talking is so easy, huh? You think that's how I'm voicing my head in front of you?"

"If it's not easy don't do it." Jessica answered without concern.

If only Jessica was an outsider who was not involved in anything, just a spectator from her bedroom balcony, Jessica would probably sympathize with Angela. However, when he was confronted back to this girl, the girl who only God knew what the problem was, Jessica was already unable to be patient and empathize anymore. Jessica is immune.

"Why are you so cruel? Is this the real you? In front of your friends you behave like a kind and friendly figure, but here..., this is definitely your true nature, right?"

"I'm concerned that you think humans have only one solid character, Angela." Jessica equalized her height with Angela and looked at the girl right in the eyes. "I've always been like this to people I don't like, Angela Lancaster! You better get used to it!"

"What did I do until you hated me, huh?" Angela raised her voice. He tried to dominate the conversation with his shrill voice. He tried to devour Jessica's every word with his voice. "I didn't do anything wrong to you, and you did me like this! I...., what have I done to you?!"

From dislike to hate it's kind of...

Who wouldn't want to make up a bad rumor? Jessica became uncomfortable when Angela's voice pierced her ears.

Noisy, my goodness! It's still morning!

"You turned a blind eye to your own mistakes, huh? want me to remind you how you insulted me that day? You said I approached Jake for his money, right? You think I've forgiven you, yeah, motherfucker. You think I'm gonna forget that shit?"

"..."

"Forgot?" Jessica snapped back.

"I'm just telling you the truth" Angela's reply was very upsetting.

God fucking. "You know what the truth is, Angela?" Jessica took one step closer in front of Angela. "You're the one who approached Jake for his money, that's the truth."

"Jake said that?"

"You said that, you idiot!" Jessica has heard the contents of the recording of the conversation Angela and her best friend who knows who. "You want stability, don't you? Jake's been in front of your face, pouring money on you, but in the end you gave up too, right? Hence..., know your place before you want something beyond your reach!"

Jessica had no intention of bullying Angela, to be honest. It's just that, because the woman first gave him an ultimatum 'Don't want to spread unpleasant rumors' that seemed threatening, Jessica became annoyed first. Bad rumors, bad rumors, what does that mean? Unless Angela intends to say something that can make the perception wrong there, then bad rumors can be spread, right?

"A outsider like you has no right to criticize me! You don't know anything that's going on between me and Jake!" Angela was already unable to stem her emotions, tears were melting on her face. "You're just the pawn Jake used to hurt me, aware of your place!"

That might have a point.

But, no one knows that's the truth.

"I'm really concerned about you, Angela. You think I don't know what's going on? I'm Jake's girlfriend now, I know every reason why you're separated. Ah, I also know you and Janette don't fit in."

The name Janette Allendale that came out of Jessica's mouth made Angela's body stiffen in anger. The woman is the source of all her self-disbelief. Janette has ruined the harmony of her relationship with Jake because she was always there, always suspecting him, always underestimating him!

"You met Janette, huh? You guys must be happy to have ruined my relationship with Jake. You're both snakes!"

Haaaa~

Jessica took a breath. Seeing Angela cry, inevitably, Jessica became pity as well. Being a demon is not an easy thing. It's hard! Seriously, hard!

"This talk just ends with you and me destroying each other, Angela. I'm tired of it. If there's nothing important to talk about, let's close it down to here."

"Don't go as well as you do" Angela said. He seemed to be an unfinished person there. "Tell me." said Angela, her voice was desperate.

"Tell me what else, Angela???" Is this girl not tired of hurting herself?

"Tell me, what do I have to do until Jake stops hurting me?"

Ugh, that's an absurd question.

"Are we in a novel now? Don't overdo it." Jessica shook her hands while chuckling uncomfortably. "Move on, Angela. You wouldn't die without Jake. After all, don't you have a new boyfriend hanging on your shoulders all the time?"

"Demian..., does Jake think me and Demian are dating?"

"Jake doesn't care about your relationship and anyone." Jessica's serious.

If anyone cares, then it's definitely Jessica. Wait, are Angela and Demian not dating? But at that time Demian introduced Angela as her lover in front of Erthian. Why is the situation confusing?

"You and Demian are dating, right?" Jessica tried to confirm once again.

However, before Angela responded, someone who was the subject of conversation came to say hello.

"Angela," he rebuked. Sound will be anxiety.

'Hahaha, forget the question just now, they are definitely dating.' Jessica gave the two people a look of disdain.

It feels a bit painful when the man she loves now embraces another woman.

"You shouldn't be working today. You had a fever last night, your heat hasn't subsided either." Demian-like prince from a fairy-tale land-checked Angela's body temperature. "Go home first..," he said.

'Every night, huh? The romance...'

"I'm sorry, Demian. I've made you anxious." Angela, who was able to stand bravely, is now shrinking inside the man's leather jacket. He breezed first leaving the narrow alley. Leaving Jessica and Demian now face to face. Stare with a messy emotion.

"Why did you do that?" Demian opened his voice. Jessica looked at the man with a frown asking. What else now?

"I don't know what you're saying."

"Angela..," said Demian, the name he said made Jessica's forehead flinch with displeasure.

"You know Ange's been hurt enough, right? Didn't you see his condition? Why are you still saying rude things to her?"

Angela was devastated, Demian thought. The girl couldn't stop crying, she got sick last night.

Angela's emotions are so unstable, Jessica should be aware of that and not stress Angela.

"What?"

"I know you can do better than this, Jessica."

"Wait, you don't know anything." Jessica clenched her hands. What the fuck was Demian saying just now?

"As far as information is concerned, I can get worse or better depending on my opponent. You think I'd just shut up because a puffy-eyed woman insulted me?"

"He didn't insult you..."

"Waaaaahh, wait, don't tell me you're going to say the same thing..., 'I'm not insulting but I'm telling the truth' so? Tskc. Seriously, huh, Demian? I forgot you guys shared the same mindset."

Soulmate.

"I'm not saying he's right, but..."

"But you want me to give up because I'm not the one crying, you mean, right?"

"Jess..."

Jessica raised her hand, holding Demian back from speaking. "Don't think, just because I didn't cry, I didn't feel anything after being insulted repeatedly by her, huh. If he knew his mentality was weak, he shouldn't have looked for trouble first with me!!!"

Demian sighed. He understood what Jessica meant, but at one time, Demian also understood the criticality of Angela's situation. The girl is unstable.

"Jessica. Stop this bullshit, please?"

"Tell that to your fucking girlfriend! Tell him to stop his bullshit! If he still loves Jake, be honest. Don't come to me over and over and ask for anything. Come on Jake, motherfucker. What's the trouble, huh?!"

"I'm not talking about them" Demian said afterwards. She looked at Jessica right at her pair of wrathful emeralds. "I'm asking you to stop with that crap!"

"Huh?"

"You and Jake, that can't happen." Demian grabbed Jessica's wrist, staring at the trace of Angela's grip that left a cut on her skin.

"Why is that impossible?" Jessica challenged.

"Jessica!!! You were with me that night, you think I'd believe you were dating another guy afterwards? Feelings aren't a game, Jessica." Thats impossible.

"Speak for yourself. You spent the day with me when you had Angela as your lover. You think you're the only one who can do that?"

"..."

"You keep making me your toy, Demian. It's nauseating. Stop touching! Now, I have Jake as my girlfriend. I-at least-wanted to be a loyal figure. You better do the same."

"You can't do this to me, Jessica."

"I didn't do anything, Demian. You did this to yourself. I'm stopping. I don't want to be your toy anymore, so disappear from my face and never come back!"

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