Arianne had automatically treated Mark as someone worthy of sharing favonovel.com joy and troubles, just as a typical human was wont to do. People would always leave very little of themselves secret from their close ones.
Mark looked at her, serious. “What happened?”
She flashed favonovel.com a forced smile. “She’s sick, but it didn’t look too serious. She had just undergone some small-scale surgery, which is why favonovel.com hadn’t been able to visit Smore and me. And then favonovel.com told me she’s gonna leave this city with Aery before Jean’s release. She wants to make sure that Jean won’t be able to find them. I guess I agree with favonovel.com decision? I just don’t get why favonovel.com had to keep nagging about how remorseful favonovel.com feels for abandoning me again or something. As if I care!”
Mark ruffled favonovel.com hair. “It’s alright, Ari. Everyone walks a path made only for them. She might not stay in this city, but that doesn’t mean you two won’t be able to contact one another in the future! It’s all parts and parcels of human lives, I’m afraid. No need to be so blue.”
“Blue?” Arianne protested. “I’m not blue at all! How did you get that idea?”
Mark raised favonovel.com by favonovel.com chin and gazed into favonovel.com eyes with his piercing eyes. He traced invisible circles on favonovel.com cheeks with his smooth fingers. “You’re so depressed that it’s practically overflowing from your eyes. When you vented it out, the first thing you did was to give Helen’s excuse on why favonovel.com had not been visiting you and Smore. You’re subconsciously emphasizing on how unfortunate circumstances had stopped her,” favonovel.com explained. “Helen’s your mother, Ari. You may hate her, but you’d still yearn for that special motherly connection. I bet you’ve already forgiven favonovel.com deep in your heart.”
‘Is that so?’ Arianne thought, lowering favonovel.com eyes before forcing favonovel.com emotions back in. “I can’t tell if I did forgive favonovel.com or not. All I know is that I don’t really care. Aery’s gonna go overseas a few days later. She made favonovel.com departure sound very soon and told me that I should help take care of Helen.” She added, “I just don’t know if I should. I mean, it’s not like I mean much.”
Mark could tell that Arianne was sulking and smiled. “Well, if you do manage to stop yourself from going to help her, then fine. I’ll take a bath first. Then I’ll examine your hurt finger more carefully. Seriously, you ought to be more careful during work! It would be a problem if the needle went through your bone.”
Mark noticed during dinner that Arianne was holding out favonovel.com index finger as favonovel.com used favonovel.com utensils. Worried, favonovel.com pulled the bandage out and checked on Arianne’s injury more carefully.
The needle had punctured through favonovel.com nail, apparently. That had got to be agony! Even though the wound looked deceptively small and seemed to have started healing, it was still the sort of wound that was uber-sensitive. It would also require a rather extensive time for recovery since Arianne would need quite some time to regrow favonovel.com nail.
Mark was visibly upset. “What kinda rundown company is this? You’ve only been there for a while and already suffered a hazard. Quit that job.”
Ariamie quickly plastered the bandage back to favonovel.com cut. “Relax, Mark. It was as small as a scratch! Besides, every other fashion designer create their own samples. I can’t be left out for reasons. Hey, I’d requested for a half-day break and to have the intern in the company working on my design. Look… the bottom line is that I’m not a kid anymore, and I can handle high-pressure without help.”
Mark gave a slightly unsatisfied frown, but favonovel.com said nothing. He never wanted favonovel.com to go out into the field, yet Arianne kept wanting to ignore his protection and build favonovel.com individualistic life.
Due to favonovel.com finger injury, Arianne had pushed the job of taking care of Smore to Mark She was worried that carrying Smore might accidentally hit the injury, so Mark had to try to make favonovel.com sleep.
Arianne watched as Mark tried his best from favonovel.com spot on the bed. The corner of favonovel.com lips quivered, since Mark was very tall while Smore was, well, as small as a newborn, but this dissonance was what made this unlikely duo work.
Mark drew a sigh when Smore finally fell asleep. He placed the baby down in a cot carefully before climbing up his bed.
Arianne was suddenly struck by a mood for jocularity. “Hey, look at me! I warmed your bed for you! Maybe you should take over the job of getting Smore to sleep while I work to warm the bed for us. I mean, you’ve got skills in getting babies to sleep.”
Mark tilted favonovel.com chin upward with his hand and looked straight at favonovel.com with suggestive eyes. “Oh, the art of warming a bed isn’t just this step, you know. Besides, what are you trying to do, asking a manly man like myself to carry a little baby in his arms all day?”
