My Wife is a Sassy Queen

Mariana steered the topic to their scandals as soon as Liliana and Jonathan were back.

“Are you going to sue Vivian?” She asked.

“Yes!” Jonathan said without any hesitation.

James saw the satisfied expression on Mariana’s face and his lips curled up involuntarily.

Henry asked something he had been curious about for a long time, “Why do you hate Vivian so much? By rights, shouldn’t you dislike the Aprices more?”

Mariana wanted to snort and ignore Henry as she had been doing for all these years. But suddenly she realized she did not dislike Henry at all. Only discontent with Henry was basically her grudge against Jonathan that had spilled over, but she had already begun to forgive and accept Jonathan. As such, she was unsure how to interact with Henry.

Everyone could see the conflict on Mariana’s face and could barely hold on to their laughter.

Liam saved her from embarrassment as he asked, “I was curious about that too.”

Jennifer piped in, “Me too. I have seen Lydia and Lester force you to donate so much blood, while Vivian only does petty things outside.”

Mariana looked at Liam appreciatively who winked at her to show it was cool. James clenched his fist at the exchange.

Mariana was his girlfriend, yet it seemed like it was always Liam who had her back and was her go-to person in distress. Now that the scandal had been taken care of, James swore to make Mariana feel his presence.

Mariana did not realize what was going on in James’s mind. But Liam could more or less guess his thoughts.

Clueless, Mariana explained, “Well, Lil has a reason to not get back to Aprices for now. We have around 4 and a half months before you all know the ultimate ace up our sleeve.”

Jonathan looked at Liliana curiously. Previously she had said there were about 6 months before she revealed the truth.

It had been almost a month and a half since then, and Mariana gave the same timeline.

He wondered what the girls had in store for them.

The others knew them well enough to not enquire further. The girls were as tight-lipped as they come.

Mariana continued, “Besides, the Aprices never managed to do much damage. Lil, do you remember most of our Kings High secrets involved how you had managed to trick them. We used to have quite a laugh at their expense.”

Liliana smiled, “Those days were quite fun. It was one of the best phases of my life. I was so busy with everything. It was quite lively and full.”

Mariana chuckled, “And oh, so satisfying. Despite everything, we need to thank the Aprices for turning us into adults quicker than our time. Not in a tragic or depressing kind of way. More like in a fun and games that they always lost but never realized.”

Jennifer asked, “Hold on! Were you the Marli twins who had turned Miss Aly into the butt of jokes when I was in freshman year?”

Mariana answered, “Ohh you remember that! Hahahaha! Now you understand why I don’t bother about them. They have always been a lost cause, and to be honest they are quite uninteresting.”

Eric asked curiously, “I think I have heard the term Marli twins. But I don’t remember the details.”

Jennifer explained, “As far as I can remember, Marli twins used to write scraps on P city kids weekly newsletter. It used to be a story about the stepdaughter who bullied the actual daughter. But the end of it would include a riddle. After you solve the riddle, you would get the code, and if you applied that code to the riddle, you get the twist on the story.”

Vincent was curious, “How?”

Mariana explained, “Let me give you an example – Once Lydia tore up Lil’s notebooks right before the exam and made quite a farce at Lester’s birthday party. We were 10 at the time and it had not been long since Aunty had passed away. Lester used to keep the appearance of a doting father and Rose would act like the compassionate stepmother who truly loved Lil. He slowly stopped doing that, but that’s another story.”

Liliana shook her head at Mariana’s excitement, but she stayed quiet and let her continue.This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

“Lydia made quite a big deal about Liliana going to Kings High and getting good grades and all that. She had been jealous that Lil went to Kings High despite all of them trying hard to stop it. She had planned to embarrass Lil after she failed the exam. The story said as much and ended with Lydia dreaming about Lil being ridiculed and orchestrated.”

Jennifer laughed as she recalled the story and added, “That was the end and there would be a PS which was a keyword. If you used the keyword as a code that was very simple to use – then the riddle would read something like – Lil was already in 7th grade instead of 5th, so what Lydia tore were old notebooks for a class that Lil had already passed with flying colors.”