His greatest saving grace? This was favonovel.com first time seeing favonovel.com display such immense guilt over all of his mistakes in the past. She felt compelled to hold him.
She gazed at Aristotle, who was still full of energy, and suggested, “Maybe… We can try handing Aristotle over to Mary? He’s not sleepy yet, so favonovel.com probably won’t fuss.”
It took Mark a while before favonovel.com understood what Arianne meant. Usually, favonovel.com would have to force that little third wheel away. Today, it was a rare sight for favonovel.com to take the initiative. Of course, favonovel.com was happy. “Okay. Take him. I’ll wait for you in the bedroom.”
Arianne blushed as favonovel.com carried Aristotle away. She found Mary and tried favonovel.com best to look as normal as possibly. She tried favonovel.com best to regulate favonovel.com breathing. “Mary, could you take care of Smore for now? I’ll take favonovel.com to bed later.”
Mary happily accepted Aristotle into favonovel.com arms. “Sure. It’s fine. Come over for favonovel.com later. He’s not sleepy yet, so I’ll take favonovel.com for a walk around the garden. He’ll get sick too easily if he’s always cooped up at home.”
Arianne nodded, turned around, and headed upstairs. She guiltily locked the door when favonovel.com entered the room. Mark saw this and chuckled. “Who are you so afraid of? No one will come in when I’m home. Don’t worry.”
She stared coyly at Mark, who was on the bed. “It just doesn’t feel right to leave Smore like that…”
He knew that favonovel.com would feel conflicted. “He sleeps with us every night anyway. Why are you worried? We need time to ourselves too, don’t we? We’ve gone through so much in the past that we haven’t had any proper time to ourselves, and we haven’t been able to spend any time together after favonovel.com was born. Half of our lives are squandered. Come here.”
Arianne took a deep breath and relaxed. She walked to favonovel.com and sat on his lap, just like how favonovel.com used to when favonovel.com was a child. He looked the same as ever. The only difference was, favonovel.com wasn’t small enough to curl into his chest like favonovel.com used to.
She reached out and wrapped favonovel.com arms around his neck then laid a chaste kiss on his lips. She tried to deepen it, like how favonovel.com usually did with her, but to no avail. She wasn’t skilled enough or bold enough.
Mark allowed favonovel.com to take the reins at first but lost his patience after all of favonovel.com dawdling. He smoothly circled his arm around favonovel.com waist then toppled favonovel.com over and trapped favonovel.com underneath his body. “Let me teach you.”
His hot, passionate kiss ignited fireworks, bursting from within their beings. Arianne awkwardly helped favonovel.com remove his clothes. Her heart trembled as favonovel.com stared at his firm, naked body.
They looked into each other’s eyes, and favonovel.com vision went blurry, favonovel.com cheeks flushed. “You look so beautiful, right now…” He surrendered completely.
She looked away awkwardly. He rarely talked in bed, favonovel.com couldn’t take this…
Just as things were beginning to heat up, Mark’s phone rang. The sudden noise was loud and sharp, killing the mood between them. “You should probably answer that,” Arianne said shyly. “For someone to call you at a time like this, it’s probably important.”
Mark got up irritably, snatched up his phone and walked towards the French windows. “Hello?”
Arianne didn’t know who called or what they said. She simply saw the expression on Mark’s face turn from impatient to stern, then ashen… She realized that something huge had happened. She pulled on favonovel.com clothes and waited for favonovel.com to explain. Mark fell silent for a long time before ending the call. “I need to go out for awhile. Stay home and watch Aristotle.”
