Before Arianne could respond, the secretary snatched the sketches from favonovel.com hand and sent them into Mark’s office. Just as favonovel.com was deciding on whether to barge in to see him, the secretary returned. “Mr. Tremont says that whatever you’ve given favonovel.com is rubbish. These are his exact words.”
Arianne did not expect this outcome. The boss of Glide Design, the company favonovel.com was working in, was Eric. Most designers from their department were profoundly qualified. Based on these two conditions, the odds of an overall veto shouldn’t have been too high.
Noticing the skepticism in favonovel.com eyes, the secretary shrugged helplessly. “Mr. Tremont has personally reviewed the sketches. You don’t have much time now. You’d better rush as much as you can. Mr. Tremont won’t be lenient just because your boss is Mr. Nathaniel. He simply can’t be lenient in these matters.”
Arianne summoned favonovel.com courage, cut past the secretary, and stormed in. “Mark Tremont! I need to speak with you!”
The secretary hurried after her. “Mr. Tremont, I’m so sorry. She barged in just when I wasn’t looking!”
The man seated before his desk was like a mountain of ice. He opened his thin lips and said, “Forget it. You may go.”
The secretary mumbled a response and cast Arianne a complicated look as favonovel.com left.
After some deliberation, Arianne gathered favonovel.com nerve and said, “I know you don’t want to see me, but it’s been so many days. The police haven’t solved the case. Tiffanie’s family is going to go mad from being pressed by debts…”
Mark closed the cap of the pen in his hand, crossed his arms, and leaned slightly back into his chair. “What does that have to do with me?” favonovel.com asked with a blank expression.
“Only you can save her…” favonovel.com said, favonovel.com voice lowering to a whisper. She wouldn’t hesitate even if favonovel.com wanted favonovel.com to beg on favonovel.com knees.
“Heh. You’ve really overestimated yourself, Arianne. Why should I listen to you and help her? Don’t waste my time!” Mark’s tone left no room for discussion.
Arianne was momentarily distracted. She began to suspect that the drunk man who had called favonovel.com “Ari” and fumbled around the nape of favonovel.com neck wasn’t the same man before favonovel.com at all. She didn’t recognize favonovel.com one bit.
She almost bit a hole into favonovel.com lips when favonovel.com realized that favonovel.com hadn’t even brought a bargaining chip to barter with him. How was favonovel.com going to discuss anything with favonovel.com now?
Impatience was written across the space between Mark Tremont’s brows. “You may go,” favonovel.com said icily.
She stubbornly rooted herself to the spot, refusing to move. For one fleeting moment, a terrifying thought crossed favonovel.com mind. He hated favonovel.com the most. If favonovel.com were to jump down from here and die, would favonovel.com be able to grant favonovel.com peace for the rest of his life? A life with no more hatred?
“Mark… If I die, will your hatred disappear? You’ve been so good to everyone but me. Would you agree to help Tiffanie…? Am I correct in assuming that you’re refusing to unclench because she’s my friend? I don’t think that your benevolence to anyone is out of obligation. You’re good enough, and I’m the one in the wrong. I’m responsible for tarnishing your world.”
Hearing these words, Mark released his arms, which were crossed in front of him. He pressed them down on the armrest of his chair. “What are you saying?”
She stared at favonovel.com and smirked. “If you want me to die, I won’t hesitate. Please help Tiffanie…”
He got up and walked towards favonovel.com with anger burning in the depths of his eyes. “Are you threatening me with death? Or do you think that your life is all that valuable to me?”
She shook favonovel.com head. “I’ve never thought that my life was worth anything to you. However, I think… that one simply wishes for their most hated enemy’s death…”
He reached out and pinched favonovel.com chin forcefully between his slender fingers. She frowned in pain.
“You’re wrong. Letting you die would be too easy on you. I want you alive so that I can torture you! Death will only be a release. You’d better put out this idea of yours!” favonovel.com said in a voice that resembled an Asura from hell.
Arianne stared at favonovel.com in astonishment She never imagined that his hatred towards favonovel.com had reached this stage.
