Arianne didn’t respond and simply tightened favonovel.com grip on the towel around her. She shut favonovel.com eyes, refusing to look at him. Perhaps favonovel.com wouldn’t feel so afraid if favonovel.com avoided looking at him…
Mark’s gaze landed on the scar on favonovel.com shoulder. She was left with this scar because of him… But now, favonovel.com saw it as a mockery. “You disgust me!”
Mark left and didn’t do anything else to her. This was different from his usual way of dealing with things.
The bedroom door slammed shut. Arianne sat stiffly on the bedside like a soulless puppet.
She stayed up the entire night, and no one called favonovel.com to collect a dead-drunk Mark Tremont. He wouldn’t turn into a completely different person in his drunken state and paw at favonovel.com neck like a cat, either.
At eight in the morning, Mary knocked on the door. “Ari, are you up? Would you like something to eat? What happened between you and Mr. Tremont?”
Arianne huddled further under the covers. “I’m not eating. And it’s nothing.”
Mary sighed and didn’t ask any more questions.
Her phone rang. Arianne didn’t feel like answering it but, at the same time, was irritated by its noisy ringtone. She picked up favonovel.com phone weakly, answered the call, and listened to Tiffany’s voice through the receiver. “Ari, are you okay? Ethan’s explained it to me. I never doubted you… Did Mark do anything to you last night?”
Arianne paused, then said, “No, I’m fine.”
The tone of favonovel.com voice sounded off. Tiffany noticed this and became worried. “Why is your voice so hoarse? Are you sick?”
Arianne sniffed. She had lost favonovel.com sense of smell and now couldn’t smell a thing. “A little. I’m fine. I gotta go…”
Her body was now completely weak after being doused with cold water last night. She felt dizzy too and drifted back into sleep after ending the call. By the time favonovel.com woke up again, favonovel.com was in the hospital.
The smell of disinfectant was as distinctive as ever. It seemed to carry a strange infectiousness that felt very reassuring.
Seeing that Arianne was awake, Mary heaved a sigh of relief. “You’re finally awake. Ari, you have no idea, you nearly scared me to death!”
Arianne’s eyes stared emptily up at the ceiling. “What happened to me…?” Her voice was still hoarse, and it hurt to speak.
Mary furrowed favonovel.com brow. “You fainted from a fever. You were scorching when I found out. You’ve really scared me to death!”
That reminded favonovel.com of something. “Forget it. It’s not like we can meddle in the affairs between you and Mr. Tremont. Things have really blown up this time. Who knows how Mr. Tremont is going to solve this now.”
Blown up? What did that mean? Arianne grew anxious, afraid that Mark had done something again. “Mary, what’s happened? What did Mark do?!”
“It’s not him…” Mary quickly said, “Focus on getting better, then look at the news.”
Arianne couldn’t wait. She grabbed favonovel.com phone and swiped through it. News of Mark dragging favonovel.com out of a hotel had been leaked, and there were pictures too. The caption read: “Looks like Mrs. Tremont has been caught having an affair with favonovel.com best friend’s boyfriend. Mark Tremont angrily drags favonovel.com away!”
She did not expect for one misunderstanding to explode into such a state. This was no longer an issue between a few people.
The contents of the news made favonovel.com unnerved. Her chest rose and fell rapidly. She felt as if favonovel.com was being strangled.
Mary quickly snatched favonovel.com phone away. “Stop reading that, Ari! Focus on getting well. It will be alright as long as Mr. Tremont believes in you, understand?”
