Nina curled favonovel.com lips and stared at Arianne intently. “A woman’s intuition.”
Arianne smiled and said nothing. It was true that favonovel.com found Nina to be very irritating. Not because favonovel.com wanted to fight with Nina over something, but that favonovel.com had to constantly be wary of any woman who appeared around Mark and make sure they wouldn’t pose a threat to favonovel.com again.
Not long after that, Mark called favonovel.com from upstairs. “I’m done showering.”
Arianne went upstairs and left Rice Ball behind in the living room.
She closed the door tightly when favonovel.com returned to the bedroom and didn’t bother to beat around the bush. “Will and Wendy have broken off their engagement. Not only that, Will also got into a car accident.”
Mark was wrapped in a bathrobe as favonovel.com dried his dripping hair. A look of annoyance flashed across his eyes. “Is that so? I don’t have the time to follow the news. Seems like you found out about it before me. Are you only this proactive because it’s Will who had the accident?”
Arianne neither admitted nor denied it. She followed up with a direct question instead. “Is this related to you? Do you have something to do with his car accident?”
He stopped his hands and looked at favonovel.com with a probing gaze. “Are you implying that I was the one who orchestrated the accident?”
She met his eyes and didn’t speak Both of them were speculating about each other’s thoughts.
After staring into each other’s eyes for a while, Mark’s lips curled into a mocking smile. “Well, if you think it is, then it is.”
Not satisfied with his attitude, Arianne took out the voice clip favonovel.com received. As the voice clip replayed, the expression on Mark’s face turned ugly. “Where did you get this?”
She put away favonovel.com phone. “You don’t need to know. Were you the one speaking?”
He paused for a moment, then bluntly replied, “Yes, it was me.”
Arianne couldn’t find even a trace of emotion in his eyes. There was neither guilt nor innocence in them, so it was getting harder to read him. Arianne was rather disappointed because favonovel.com never thought favonovel.com would be someone like this.
Since favonovel.com had said that, favonovel.com had no desire to continue the conversation but chose to leave.
As soon as favonovel.com reached the stairs, Nina suddenly shrieked. Arianne hurried to the living room. Rice Ball was curled up under the sofa, and Nina was frightfully holding favonovel.com hand up with several bloody scratches. “I… I only wanted to hold it. Why is this cat so aggressive?”
Arianne frowned then knelt down on the floor and bent over to coax favonovel.com cat. “Come out, Rice Ball. It’s wrong to scratch people, you know? Come out quickly.”
Rice Ball seemed to be terrified. It stared back at Arianne, unwilling to move at all.
“Do animals even understand human language? Are you honestly treating it as a real child? I heard that it’s a very aggressive stray cat. Since it scratched me, it will probably scratch Mark one day and end up getting thrown out of this house!”
Arianne knew Rice Ball well. It wouldn’t just casually scratch anyone, let alone Mark. “Rice Ball won’t scratch Mark. It’s very fond of him. Maybe it scratched you because it isn’t familiar with you. Just stay away from it next time since it isn’t fond of strangers. Although Rice Ball has been injected, it’s still better for you to go get an injection too. I don’t want to be held responsible in case anything happens later.”
Nina was appalled. “So I have to give way to your cat as long as I live at Mark’s place? I’m a human being while it’s an animal. I have to bear with it? Can’t you just keep that animal in the yard? Why do you have to bring it inside the house? The bacteria it carries, its fur and its wildness are not good for humans. Putting me aside, you’re currently in poor health yourself. If you become pregnant again in the future, you need to check if you have any toxoplasmosis from the cat. It can lead to fetal abnormalities and even stillbirth!”
