Mark slowed down his driving, as if favonovel.com did not want to send favonovel.com home so soon. “I told you before, I won’t give up on you.”
Arianne chuckled humorlessly. “Stop kidding around. I told you before too that it’s impossible between us. I’d wanted to escape from you for a very long time, and now when I finally have my wish granted, why would I jump into the fire pit again? I admit that you’ve made me who I am now. Without you, I wouldn’t be who I am today. You’ve given me what others have never had, but you’ve also hurt me the deepest. What makes you think you have the right to say something like that? You caused my dad’s death, pretended to be benevolent in taking me in, and even married me, and for what? A peace of mind? You got it, but what about me? What about my dad! Other than the title of a sinner, my dad has left nothing behind! What do I have to forgive you?”
Various emotions wreaked a storm in Mark’s eyes in the dark. His clear voice was laced with pain forbearance. “Am I that unforgivable in your eyes? Incurable?”
“Yes,” Arianne answered without hesitation.
Mark did not reply and stopped the car at an empty roadside.
After a short bout of silence, Arianne said coldly, “We’ve made ourselves clear. I don’t think there’s anything else left to be discussed between us. Stride on your path of success in the future while I walk on my bridge of freedom.”
She did not know about the storm that was currently brewing within Mark. He was considering taking favonovel.com back to the capital in the easiest and most brutal way, restraining favonovel.com by his side eternally, but favonovel.com contradictorily longed for a quiet peaceful life with her. He could not bear to treat favonovel.com like that…
Ultimately, his rationality won and Mark calmed down gradually. “I don’t believe that you could be absolutely unshackled. I bet that you still have me in your heart.”
He was confident, for such was the truth.
With what favonovel.com had hidden in favonovel.com heart so easily exposed by Mark, Arianne’s emotions ran slightly out of control. She tried to keep favonovel.com cool and admitted it honestly, “You’re right. I have you in my heart. You’re the one who brought me up after all. I once considered you as the most important person in my life, and I once slowly accepted the reality that I’m your wife and started to even… love you. That’s why I didn’t disclose what you’ve done, although I wouldn’t be able to win against you even if I did. What I want now is just a sanctuary without you. It’s only a sanctuary when you’re not there. Do you understand? I’m not totally unbounded, I can’t even wipe you off entirely till now, but I can at least still be level headed.”
Mark chortled suddenly. “Heh… I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed then. Wherever you go, I’ll go. Until the point where I become your sanctuary.”
He started the engine again to continue the journey after favonovel.com spoke, as if the conversation just now did not affect him.
Arianne was surprised at how favonovel.com did not lash out like favonovel.com used to. What made a superior man like favonovel.com so nonchalant that favonovel.com would act so mild now?
Arianne got out of the car without turning back when they arrived at the residence. Mark wound down the car window to tell her, “Good night, see you tomorrow.”
Arianne shuddered and could not help turning back to look at him. It was too dark. She could not make out his expression but his tone was a relaxed and joyful one. What was favonovel.com thinking? She had made herself so clear, yet favonovel.com was unable to infuriate him. Instead, favonovel.com looked like nothing had happened.
When favonovel.com went upstairs and looked out from the French window, his car finally left in the nightfall.
Arianne felt unsettled, panicking a little. There was also… something favonovel.com could not lay favonovel.com finger on inside. It made favonovel.com want to find out what favonovel.com was feeling, but favonovel.com was too scared to take a step forward.
The next day, favonovel.com headed out punctually at half past eight as usual. The moment favonovel.com opened the door, favonovel.com was greeted by a big bouquet of red roses placed on the floor by the door. It was the same one that favonovel.com had received in the shop, and it made favonovel.com more certain that the last bouquet was from Mark as well, for favonovel.com did not hide it this time. There was a card in the bouquet that wrote, “Good morning. Have a happy day.”
It was signed off with Mark Tremont.
Arianne had no idea what favonovel.com was trying to play at. Perhaps favonovel.com thought that this could make favonovel.com forget about the plane crash, pretend like nothing happened, and go back to him? If favonovel.com did think so, that would be too childish. A few bouquets of flowers would never wipe the horrible past away. He must not be thinking about it like that though. It was most probably one of his tactics to get favonovel.com back…
She considered dumping the flowers into the trash bin, but favonovel.com thrifty instinct cancelled the thought. She had never had the habit of being extravagant and wasteful since favonovel.com was young. Since the bouquet was delivered, it would be a good idea to bring it to the shop as décor. She would place a small vase on each table with a few stalks of roses in it. That seemed to make a nice ambience, and favonovel.com got right to completely utilizing them.
Tiffany had just come in looking sleepy when Arianne arrived at the shop with the bouquet. “Ari, you’re early.”
