60: Bitten By Angelina-bug

Jeremy tried to coax her for the umpteenth time.

"It's okay sweetheart. What has happened has already happened and now all we have to do is think of a solution, okay?"

Turning to Maxwell, he spoke to him in an understanding tone.

"You were jealous."

Maxwell abruptly looked at him. It was a statement and not a question. He just stared at Jeremy with an unreadable expression on his face without uttering a word. But Alicia wasn't so quiet.

"Huh? What are you talking about? He humiliated my friend and you're talking about jealousy? What he did was pure humiliation at its peak so don't sugar-coat it!"

Jeremy shook his head with a half-smile on his face.

"No sweetheart. You're not a man so you won't understand how these things are. Believe me, his actions are justified and if I was in his shoes, I might have even done worse. He had once seen me deliberately flirting with Angelina just so as to rile both of them up. And when he came here and found me with a woman who had s