“I get it! I get it! I lost control of my emotions back there, alright? God, everything is pissing me off.” Mark leaned back onto the seat and massaged his forehead. “Every time favonovel.com mentions Granny, my heart skips a beat out of fear and trepidation. Yet, time and again, that baleful good-for-nothing keeps coming to my doorstep, weaponizing that secret against me. I just can’t possibly let favonovel.com know, Brian. If this secrecy continues to hang by a thread, nothing good could come out of it. No, there isn’t going to be a next time for him. No more threats…”
“Oh, that reminds me. Make arrangements with the hospital so that they’re now standing-by for favonovel.com childbirth. Ari’s frail constitution makes premature delivery very possible, I don’t want any complication to occur throughout the process.”
Brian let out a silent breath of relief and answered, “Understood.”
Night fell, yet Arianne resisted calls for dinner. Just thinking back on Mark angrily lashing out in the afternoon quickly bereft favonovel.com of any appetite.
Seeing favonovel.com like this made Mary panicked. “Please, Ari, pretend that Mr. Tremont somehow lost his marbles back there, okay? There is no reason to get back at favonovel.com this way. You know how men are, they can’t always be perfectly reasonable all the time, so please, don’t use that small instance as a reason to be mean to yourself and the child! At least have a little bite or two?”
Arianne was lying down on the bed motionlessly. “No. No appetite. He hasn’t come back yet?”
Mary sighed. “He might have a bit more work than favonovel.com predicted, but even if Mr. Tremont comes back home right now, favonovel.com would still feel terrible seeing you like this! Come on, Ari, tell me, what do you crave? I’ll make it for you right away!” favonovel.com urged. “No matter What it is, you must eat something! Just look at yourself, you’re nurturing that little one inside of you, yet you still look so skinny. Your face alone has become unhealthily sharper since your pregnancy!”
Arianne, however, expressed another kind of concern. “I dare not overeat, Mary. It’s risky to have the child grow too large. I know how weak my body is, if the child grows too soon, it might become the bane of me. Plus, I heard that it’s better to deliver the child naturally rather than a cesarean, so… Look, I’m fine, Mary. I’ll tell you if I’m hungry, but for now, I really don’t feel like eating at all. You can leave me be. I’m just gonna take a nap.”
Failing to convince her, Mary left.
Halfway through favonovel.com descent, Mary met face-to-face with Mark, and all of favonovel.com frustration poured out before favonovel.com could adjust favonovel.com tone. “Where on earth have you been, young man? You’re usually home by late evening! You acted out against Ari this afternoon, and you still thought it’d be a great idea to come home so late? Do you know that your wife hasn’t eaten a thing for dinner? Christ, it’s almost nine already. Are you not gonna see favonovel.com and do something?!”
Mary’s words spurred Mark into clambering up the stairs, his habit of changing into his indoor shoes forgotten. Hurriedly, favonovel.com pushed open the door to the sight of Arianne tucked under the blanket.
He softened his steps. “You’re angry with me, aren’t you?”
Arianne’s head slid out from underneath to peep at Mark, but for the most part, favonovel.com feigned deaf.
Frankly, favonovel.com was still feeling a little sore from their exchange before. In the past, a furious Mark was so ubiquitous in favonovel.com daily life that favonovel.com barely registered any particular feelings about it. However, this time was different — favonovel.com had not been angry with favonovel.com for so long that when favonovel.com expressed a lick of exasperation, it formed a lump in favonovel.com mind that refused to dissipate.
Mark approached favonovel.com by the bedside with his eyes tracing his wife’s contours under the sheet. The rise on favonovel.com belly was prominent even when shielded, which formed a rather discordant pair with the thinness of favonovel.com face.
Mark had wanted so much to tell his wife to abort the child, but favonovel.com simply could not bring himself to say it. So now, watching favonovel.com being tormented by favonovel.com pregnancy made favonovel.com feel even glummer.
“You’ll be hungry if you don’t eat, won’t you?”
“If it hadn’t been you being mad at me, I could have eaten two big meals,” Arianne mumbled. “I mean, it’s not like I said something wrong that stung you where it hurt, did I?”
Mark was exceptionally patient as favonovel.com did his best to coax the woman out of favonovel.com tantrum. “I wasn’t mad at you; it was the effect of a slew of particularly bad days. I’d told you, it wasn’t directed at you at all. Look, why don’t you tell me if you have anything in mind for dinner, hmm? I’ll have someone make it for you, okay? Oh, also, I noticed that you’re pretty bored at home, so how about we invite Tiffany and Tanya over during the weekend?”
Arianne watched favonovel.com silently for about two beats before questioning, “What’s troubling you so much lately? Share it with me.”
He shook his head. “No, no. I’d rather be the only one worrying than to drag you into that quagmire. Come, let me help you downstairs.”
Arianne slowly and carefully sat up from favonovel.com position and, with his help, descended the stairs.
