Mark seemed to have assumed that Arianne was already asleep because favonovel.com came through the door, still on the phone, instead of trying to hide the conversation. “I couldn’t care less whatever it is that you plan to do,” favonovel.com barked. “You go ahead and crap out as many troubles as you like until the world ends. I don’t care. Sorry to burst your bubble, but I’m not, by any means, an unprincipled man.”
Hearing the steely rage in his voice, Arianne put favonovel.com pen down and looked up at him.
Their eyes met, and a slight change overcame Mark’s expression before favonovel.com hung up immediately. “You’re still awake? What are you doing in the living room?”
Arianne tucked favonovel.com unfinished draft toward herself. “Waiting for you, what else? Who were you talking to? You sounded pissed.”
Weariness rose in his eyes. “It’s nothing. I’m going for a bath. You should rest early.”
Arianne was quite upset with favonovel.com waving the question aside. She had heard every single word favonovel.com spoke while favonovel.com was on the phone, and favonovel.com instincts told favonovel.com that whoever was on the other side of his phone was a woman. And yet, Mark had decided to keep his lips sealed.
Arianne just wanted to understand him, or at least, know what was currently going on with him. Was this not the sort of thing shared between a husband and a wife? She hated feeling like there was an invisible wall between them.
Mark went into the bathroom while Arianne stood guard outside the door. She was going to make favonovel.com loosen his mouth. She did not have to try to recall his daily habits-live with a person long enough, and one automatically knows the other person’s schedule.
Mark usually bathed for half an hour, but today, favonovel.com took an extra ten minutes. It was this little detail that reinforced Arianne’s conjecture that favonovel.com must be in a knotty spot to have caused this “abnormality.”
Arianne listened to the sound of the flowing shower come to a stop before the door opened. Immediately, favonovel.com launched into favonovel.com interrogation. “I want you to tell me who you were talking to.”
Mark froze. “Uh, it’s a little late, don’t you think? I don’t think it’s a good time to talk about it. I still have an important matter to deal with tomorrow at work, so I ought to sleep.”
A frown rose to Arianne’s eyebrows, favonovel.com temper starting to flare. Just this morning, favonovel.com told favonovel.com that favonovel.com would talk about it tonight, and now, favonovel.com was acting like a phone on low battery? Thanks to his overseas business trip, Arianne had not been able to spend time with favonovel.com for almost half a month. And still, that was not as egregious as his habit of keeping everything a secret from favonovel.com for no good reason!
Arianne marched to their bed and laid down with a scowl. This man could be so… infuriatingly chauvinistic sometimes, especially when favonovel.com treated favonovel.com as the same little girl favonovel.com raised and hid things from. A correction on this stinking behavior of his was a long time coming.
Acutely sensing favonovel.com displeasure, Mark tried to coax favonovel.com out of it in a low voice. “C’mon now. I am genuinely tired. It’s not a front to hide something from you.”
She continued to silently seethe and inched a little bit farther from him, as though favonovel.com was determined to carve out a line between the two of them.
Helpless, Mark focused on wiping his hair dry before laying down next to her. “Don’t go to bed sulking. Shh. Sleep.”
An extended period of silence followed his words. Arianne turned and found the man already sound asleep! She was so angry that favonovel.com almost kicked favonovel.com awake, only barely stopping herself. Arianne truly loathed Mark’s penchant to tease information, only to keep it away from favonovel.com later. The least favonovel.com could do was not to incite favonovel.com curiosity through teasing!
The next morning, Arianne woke up to find Mark still asleep. Reluctant to rope Henry into the trouble of sending favonovel.com to work, favonovel.com decided to call a cab. A small part of favonovel.com wondered how Brian’s blind-dates were going since favonovel.com had not returned.
No sooner had favonovel.com arrived at the mouth of the street than favonovel.com suddenly spied Sylvain Trudeau’s car right across the street. The car was a very eye-catching model, so it did not take favonovel.com long to spot it.
