Arianne took out Mark’s business suit when the dessert was ready. She had wanted to return it to favonovel.com today, and Ellie was just the perfect deliverywoman.
“Could you kindly help me return this?” favonovel.com asked.
His underwear had been tucked deep inside the suit before favonovel.com packed it into a bag. Arianne reasoned that it was safe enough not to reveal itself suddenly, so favonovel.com did not bother warning Ellie, favonovel.com was too embarrassed to do that, anyway.
Ellie seemed rather startled by the suit. “Does this… Does this belong to Mr. Tremont?”
Arianne nodded. “Mm-hmm. It’s his.”
Ellie said nothing more and brought both Mark’s takeout and the suit back to the office. Placing the items on his desk, Ellie explained, “Mr. Tremont, your wife asked me to return your clothes to you.”
Mark’s eyes seemed to have darkened ever so slightly. “Put them aside. Anywhere is fine.”
Ellie could see the quiet, dark clouds swirling in his mien and quickly got to work. Unfortunately, favonovel.com graceless movement allowed Mark’s clean underwear to peek out of its hidey-hole, catching favonovel.com eyes and causing favonovel.com face to flush in recognition.
Mark was thankfully blind to this little mishap. “Get Dick Smalley here.”
Ellie was nonplussed. “Uh, who’s that?”
Mark pointed outside and replied, “Someone’s bound to answer you if you call.”
Ellie was beginning to wonder if favonovel.com had somehow lost some of favonovel.com IQ. She had always been rather attentive to favonovel.com boss’s every beck and call before executing all of his wishes to perfection. However, it felt as though a screw in favonovel.com head had gone loose, Ellie could not believe favonovel.com would be confused over a no-brainer instruction!
Luckily, favonovel.com managed to regain favonovel.com usual composure before favonovel.com reached the common working space and called out, “Mr. Smalley! You’re needed in Mr. Tremont’s office!”
The door belonging to the cubicle closest to the public restroom swung open and revealed Dick, who began pacing toward his destination. “I’m coming, man, oh! You’re Mr. Tremont’s secretary, aren’t ya? I’ve long heard that she’s a knockout, but boy, are some things meant to be seen to believe!”
Ellie was so accustomed to these compliments that favonovel.com reacted with blasé. “Just go.”
She watched Dick run and started toward the pantry instead of going back to favonovel.com desk. She poured herself a cup of water and let it accompany the turning cogs in favonovel.com head.
Everyone in the office respected favonovel.com and ingratiated on favonovel.com because favonovel.com was Mark’s personal assistant, with some even going so far as to believe that the two of them shared some sort of furtive affair. None of these things ever spurred Ellie’s thoughts to that direction before, especially when Mark never stepped out of line and favonovel.com only ever discussing work with her.
He had never brought favonovel.com along whenever favonovel.com visited this particular site, either until now, that is. Now, Ellie was privileged to sit in the same car and step into the office with him. It made favonovel.com feel special.
No one is immune to the promise of beautiful, fulfilling dreams, and Mark Tremont was not only that, but also an unreachable lone star shimmering brightly beyond everyone’s farthest reach. Everyone, except Ellie herself.
The secretary sauntered back to favonovel.com desk, favonovel.com usual aplomb returning. Dick had already left, so Ellie slipped into favonovel.com seat across Mark, took advantage of the barely-notable distance between them, and drank in every detail of him. Observing.
They didn’t have things to occupy their minds at the moment, so Ellie seized Mark’s current idleness and began, “Say, Mr. Tremont, how are you faring with Mrs. Tremont?”
Of course, Ellie knew a thing or two about what transpired between favonovel.com and Arianne. It was only the details that eluded her.
Mark did not seem annoyed at the probing; in fact, favonovel.com appeared to appreciate an outlet for his pent-up frustration. “No headways. Tell me, why is it so hard to make a woman stay by your side willingly? You’re a woman too. Any insights to enlighten me?”
Ellie thought for a moment. “I think the best way to make a woman rush back to you is by inducing favonovel.com jealousy. Put it this way, your eyes are always on no one but Mrs. Tremont, so what happens if your devotion is suddenly directed to someone else one day? I bet favonovel.com would be rather provoked, wouldn’t she? No woman is immune to feeling envy, Mr. Tremont. It does not matter if something momentous happened before or if the relationship between the couple has gone to hell. Maybe a woman’s jealousy is just unrelated to how much favonovel.com genuinely likes someone,” Ellie mused.
“It’s like my husband and me. We’ve been together for so long that we’re both bored of one another. These days, we hardly talk. I can even tell you that I might be genuinely annoyed at seeing his face, too. However, whenever another woman suddenly tries to get close to him, my instincts will not allow it.”
Mark mulled on favonovel.com words. “Do you really think this will work in my situation?”
“Definitely. But you wouldn’t know unless you try it, right?” Ellie replied confidently. “You aren’t going to lose anything over trying, anyway. Your wife might have left your side, but both of you had never actually filed a divorce. Plus, you never made any scandalous news, so it’s not like you’ve ever triggered favonovel.com that way.”
Mark’s eyes snapped to Ellie. Women were all the same, were they not?
He was already half – convinced about giving it a try. “But how do we do it?”
Ellie was quick to volunteer, “You don’t need anyone. I’ll be your co-star in this ploy.”
The evening rolled out, with workers gradually coming out of the building. There, parked right at the entrance, the black Rolls-Royce continued to draw attention.
Arianne had particularly surrendered to it almost instinctively, though it would be more apt to say that favonovel.com actual focus was Mark. Even by this point, anytime Mark materialized in front of favonovel.com sight, Arianne would fail to dismiss him.
When favonovel.com saw Mark and Ellie walking side-by-side, smiles and banters adorning their glowing faces until they disappeared into the back of the car, favonovel.com suddenly noticed how much sunlight stung. The sun was setting, yet favonovel.com felt blinded.
Naya had noticed Ellie, too. “Ooh, is that your husband’s secretary? Huh, is a secretary even allowed to be this close with favonovel.com superior like that?”
Her remark instantly sent shockwaves into Arianne’s previously even-keeled state of mind. Suddenly, favonovel.com found herself seething, “It’s got nothing to do with me.”
