Arianne didn’t answer. She turned favonovel.com face to the side, shut favonovel.com eyes and gripped tightly onto the covers. Her cheeks were blushing furiously, which spread throughout favonovel.com entire body, a bright red as clear as day.
He kept on mumbling to himself, then collapsed on top of favonovel.com and stopped moving.
Arianne finally realized that something was wrong with him. His body felt extremely hot! She panicked instantly, then soon relaxed. She picked up the clothes on the ground and put on his pajamas for him. Then, favonovel.com called the Tremont family doctor.
The doctor quickly rushed over. After a simple check-up, favonovel.com concluded, “Mr. Tremont has been over exhausted for a long period of time. Furthermore, he’s caught a cold, which has caused a fever. His body has been overtaxed, so he’s lost consciousness. The temperature has gone down lately. It’s pretty normal to catch a cold under such capricious weather.”
Arianne heaved a sigh of relief after determining the cause behind Mark’s collapse. A cold was nothing. Eric has caught a cold too. It wasn’t unusual during this season. However… How did Mark over exhaust himself? And over a long period of time to boot. It was only once… She nearly thought that favonovel.com had caused this!
After administering an injection and prescribing Mark’s medicine, the doctor left. Mary sighed at the doorway, “Ari, Mr. Tremont hasn’t been able to sleep very much in your absence. He would usually sit in front of the window at night, all alone. Then he’d go to the office the next day. I don’t know how favonovel.com managed to pull through… It’s been so long since you’ve left… He would take a nap on the couch from time to time after work but would wake up after a very short while.”
Mark was still unconscious at this point, so Arianne could freely do anything to him. She ran favonovel.com slender finger across his collarbone. It seemed like favonovel.com had lost weight. How could favonovel.com not? He had been torturing himself for so long. He looked like the god of plague every time favonovel.com saw him, so favonovel.com didn’t look at favonovel.com too closely. Hence, favonovel.com never noticed this change in him.
The insufferably arrogant Mark Tremont had fallen into favonovel.com grasp in the end.
“Come home, Ari. Regardless of what Mr. Tremont has done, he’s repenting for it. How is favonovel.com going to live without you? He’s close to death. He’s always been head over heels for you. You were only eight when favonovel.com brought you home, and favonovel.com was only an eighteen year old boy. What would a wealthy boy like favonovel.com know? No one has ever taught favonovel.com how to get along with people since then. He will change slowly in the future. I can’t bear watching you two like this…”
Mary wiped the tears from favonovel.com eyes, favonovel.com tone filled with denunciation. Arianne wasn’t exactly hard-hearted either. Despite all of the horrible things he’s done to her, favonovel.com didn’t hate him, not completely, “Stop it, Mary. I will carefully consider this. I’m not that cruel or that cold blooded. I…” Love favonovel.com too…
Mark slept for two days and two nights. It was likely that favonovel.com hadn’t had a good night’s sleep in too long. Now, favonovel.com finally managed to get a good rest.
Jackson and Tiffany came over for a visit after learning about his collapse. He was still asleep at the time, so they left. Eric did not visit, afraid that someone might blame favonovel.com for giving Mark the flu…
When Mark finally awoke, it was the middle of the night. The first thing favonovel.com did was turn on the light, get down from bed, and search for Arianne. Just as favonovel.com had opened the door and was about to run out, Arianne sat up in bed, rubbed favonovel.com eyes and asked, “Where are you going?”
His body stiffened then turned around to look at her. He was in momentary shock before giving a sigh of relief, “I thought…”
“You thought that I ran away after you collapsed?” Arianne raised favonovel.com brow. “Don’t worry, I’m not that cruel. I’d be under suspicion if you died. Go back to sleep. It’s been a while since you’ve had a good night’s sleep. It’s still dark out.”
Mark got back into bed and lay down. He turned his head to the side and looked at her, “About what happened today… I’m sorry. I was too rash. Can you stop making me angry?”
Arianne burst into laughter, “Today? You’ve been sleeping for two days and two nights. That did not happen today. Tiffany even brought Naya and Tanya for a visit and showed them around. I’ve never met anyone who’d sleep that long… Next time… You have to sleep well when I’m not around. You might die from sleep deprivation. I’m not trying to scare you. About… that thing, I won’t stall you. I will seriously consider it.”
He turned his body to the side and pulled favonovel.com into his arms. He didn’t say a word and simply held favonovel.com in silence. He could tell when favonovel.com was lying. When favonovel.com agreed to take a year off to think, favonovel.com knew that favonovel.com was only stalling for time. But now, favonovel.com knew that favonovel.com wasn’t lying to him.
It’s been a while since favonovel.com felt so peaceful. She really was in his arms. It wasn’t a dream. It wasn’t a figment of his imagination.
After along pause, favonovel.com asked, “Are you still going to leave?”
Arianne nodded, “Mm. I don’t want to get rid of the dessert shop. I have Naya and Tanya. They need this job, and I can’t leave them. You… can come and visit me whenever you have the time.”
Mark rubbed his chin against favonovel.com hair, “I don’t want to let you go… The dessert shop can stay in business in your absence. I’ll send someone to replace you.”
