Half an hour later, Mark finally emerged with Mr. Yates. Mr. Yates’ s secretary followed closely behind, along with Brian.
Arianne stood in front of the car and didn’t approach them. She waited until Mark and Brian were alone before stepping forward.
Mark was taken aback when favonovel.com saw her. “How long have you been here?” favonovel.com asked in a seemingly casual tone.
She put favonovel.com hands, which had turned red from the cold, into favonovel.com pockets. “I just got here. Right when you were walking out.”
Her cheeks had grown red from the piercing cold wind.
He wasn’t blind. He didn’t believe a word favonovel.com said. “Get in the car. We’ll go to the hotel first.”
The first thing Mark did upon returning to the hotel was take a shower. Arianne took advantage of his cleansing habits to think of the best way to broach the subject with him. The bathroom door opened before favonovel.com could come up with anything. He lit a cigarette as favonovel.com put on his bathrobe, took two puffs, then put it out. “What is it?”
She was struck by nervousness and was at a loss for words. Her face blushed.
He picked up his watch, which favonovel.com had taken off before his shower, and fiddled with it. “Is it about Tiffany’s family?”
“Yes,” Arianne nodded, “Can you… Help?”
He lifted his gaze to look at favonovel.com and replied in a deadpan voice, “This isn’t about whether I’m willing to help or not. Any company can rise and fall. I lost more than 10 million dollars’ worth of material from this incident. There’s also the value of what those materials could have brought me. I am the biggest victim here. What gives you the right to ask for my sympathy, for a man who’s caused my losses? The material was lost due to the Lane family’s carelessness. As a businessman, I can only utilize a series of remedial tactics and decrease my losses as much as possible. It’s not my fault even if the Lane family is forced to their doom. Do you understand?”
She understood the logic, and favonovel.com couldn’t deny this.
However, favonovel.com was the only one who could help now. “Then why don’t you look at it from a businessman’s point of view? Give a cost estimate of your losses, and Tiffie and I will pay it. Her father is still in the hospital now, and favonovel.com mother hasn’t been in the best of health. There’s no possible financial source.”
Mark seemingly found this hilarious, “Am I hearing this right? It’s more than 10 million. How do you expect to find that kind of money? Don’t be so naive, thinking that you can bear everything on your own. I don’t think you can do it, so I won’t agree to your suggestion. This is business. I don’t want to mix personal relations in this.”
She had lost all means of persuading favonovel.com at this point. He was right. She took a deep breath and said, “Forget it, I understand where you’re coming from. Let’s pretend that I was never here.”
Mark stared at the watch in his hand. “This isn’t the best way to help others,” favonovel.com said, the emotions in his voice undetectable. “The thief who stole the materials died in a fire before reaping any benefits. Isn’t that fishy? According to my knowledge, that guy didn’t even manage to resell the goods for a profit. I’m not going to concern myself with this. This is the Lane family’s problem. They’ll just have to watch out.”
Arianne detected the complexity in the situation. However, the police couldn’t solve the case, and favonovel.com had no means to uncover the truth. Distant waters are powerless against near fires. How easy would it be to find the lost materials? She couldn’t speak for the future, but now, the Lane family was finished.
“I understand…” She lowered favonovel.com head and walked towards the door. Mark looked at the time on his watch and frowned. “It’s late. We’ll go back together when I’m done with work…”
Arianne really wasn’t in the mood to hang around here, “No, thank you. Tiffie must be upset now. I want to see favonovel.com and keep favonovel.com company. Is that alright?”
He had lost his patience. “If you want to see her, be good and stay here today.”
She was helpless. She had no choice but to stay.
She stared at the only large bed in the room. “I’ll… Ask for another room,” Arianne suggested. “You’re always busy, I’m afraid that I might disturb your sleep.”
Mark walked to the bedside and sat down. “I know what to do. Come here and sleep.”
