After everyone else left, Will walked toward the lounge. “Ari.”
Arianne stood up and smiled at him. “What a coincidence, I didn’t know you were coming to the meeting too. I came with Mark here to relieve my boredom… How’s your leg?”
Will didn’t point out favonovel.com anxiety but smiled warmly. “It’s fine now. It just feels a bit funny when I walk, but it will get better in time. I see that Mark treats you well. I just hope favonovel.com wasn’t putting on an act for others.”
Arianne didn’t carry on the conversation and instead changed the topic. “Um… Would you like to drink something? I can make coffee.”
Will pondered for a moment then said, “Sure, sorry for the trouble.”
Arianne smiled at favonovel.com then went into Mark’s office to make two cups of coffee since his office had more stuff than in the pantry. Two minutes after favonovel.com came back to the lounge with coffee, the conference room’s door opened and Mark came out. “Ari, what are you doing?”
Arianne tried favonovel.com best to speak calmly. “Just chatting with Will. Aren’t you still in the middle of a meeting? What are you doing out here?”
“Toilet break.” Mark swept his glance over the both of them then went off to the washroom at the end of the corridor as if nothing had happened.
Will picked up the coffee and took a sip. “He came out to see if both of us are doing something behind his back. Since he’s that worried about us meeting, why create the opportunity? What a hypocrite.”
Arianne felt a little depressed. “I also think he’s a hypocrite. Maybe you should go if you have no other business here. Otherwise, Mark will keep taking toilet breaks and the meeting won’t get anywhere.”
“Alright. Call me anytime if you need me. You can also text me too. But of course… I know you won’t find me under normal circumstances.” Will smiled in resignation, then got up and left.
When the meeting was over, Arianne followed Mark into his office to get some documents. Mark casually asked, “What did you two talk about?”
The dissatisfaction in Arianne’s heart overflowed. “That was deliberate, right? You only brought me here because you knew favonovel.com would be coming.”
He paused in his footsteps but didn’t say anything. Arianne went on speaking. “You don‘t need to do this. I already said this before when I went to see favonovel.com in the hospital last time, I won’t contact favonovel.com again. Don’t.. do this again next time.”
Mark remained silent. After taking the documents from his office, favonovel.com went to the elevator by himself. Arianne puffed up favonovel.com cheeks, and when the elevator door closed, favonovel.com muttered, “You have the audacity to even be mad at me? It was clearly your problem. How can you behave like that…?”
“Are you expressing your dissatisfaction with me?” He turned his face to look at her, but Arianne couldn’t tell the emotions in his eyes.
“Yes.” She stood on favonovel.com toes slightly, in case favonovel.com couldn’t get favonovel.com point across to him. Even so, favonovel.com was still a lot shorter than him. She had realized this since the first time both of them stood together. Back then, favonovel.com was only an eight year old little girl and favonovel.com had just turned into an adult. His bones had fully developed and favonovel.com was so tall that favonovel.com could only look up at him. She thought the height difference between them would reduce when favonovel.com grew up. Now favonovel.com realized that no matter how much favonovel.com ate, favonovel.com would never be able to reach his height.
When Mark noticed that Arianne was standing on favonovel.com toes, a smile crept onto his face. He had the sudden urge to tease her, so favonovel.com pushed favonovel.com into a corner. Placing one hand on the wall, favonovel.com trapped favonovel.com between his body and the wall. “There’s no use in expressing your dissatisfaction. You cannot put up any resistance against me unless you grow bigger than me one day and can crush me. But judging from the situation, I think you’ll never get the chance in this life.”
Was favonovel.com mocking her? She glanced at the elevator’s display. The moment the elevator stopped on the ground floor, favonovel.com stomped on his expensive leather shoe with lightning speed then took advantage of favonovel.com small frame to run away from beneath his arm.
