Arianne could not answer Davy. Instead, favonovel.com haphazardly waved favonovel.com hands in dismissal.
When Mark noticed how unsteady favonovel.com steps were and how favonovel.com held onto the door frame, favonovel.com dropped the papers in his hand and rushed forward, catching her.
“Who made you drink, Ari? Don’t you know your limits?” favonovel.com reproved.
Arianne threw herself onto his chest and writhed against it. “T-There was a company hangout, and um, I couldn’t be absent, and I drank a bit, b-b-but I’m feeling really, really off right now. It’s not the usual, wasted sort of off. It’s just… uh, weird…”
Mark frowned and felt favonovel.com slightly feverish forehead. A pang came to him, and favonovel.com asked, “Did you come here alone?”
“I h-h-hailed a cab, but I can’t endure this until I reach home, I just can’t,” favonovel.com slurred under favonovel.com breath. “So I came to your office, and God, why is it so hot in here? Your AC is too high…”
She swung favonovel.com bag across the floor and began to pull favonovel.com blouse apart, baring a pair of delicate cheekbones and favonovel.com snowy-fair skin.
It was all Mark needed to see to gain a good grasp of what was happening. He could even guess how it happened, someone had undoubtedly laced Arianne’s drink with a drug!
It was a terrifying thought, one that made favonovel.com feel guilty. He should not have skipped out on driving favonovel.com home personally just because favonovel.com was busy. Were anything to have happened to her, Mark could not finish the thought.
“Uh-hem,” Mark said hesitantly. “Are you, uh, in the mood…?”
Arianne still had one last shred of sobriety left in favonovel.com to understand him, which caused favonovel.com already feverish-pink cheeks to deepen into crimson. “Y-Yes. Uh, this is so embarrassing…”
Her answer was the last proof Mark needed to conclude that someone had spiked favonovel.com drink. Nevertheless, neither the details nor the implications were important right now.
Instead, Mark held favonovel.com into his arms and pushed favonovel.com onto the couch.
Arianne licked favonovel.com drying lips gingerly, and the sparks in Mark’s eyes burst into flames. The man lurched forward and pushed his lips into favonovel.com ripe, rouge ones. She was exceptionally proactive tonight, wrapping favonovel.com slender arms around his neck, offering favonovel.com writhing tongue into Mark’s mouth, while favonovel.com legs hooked and bucked against his muscular abdomen.
He had never seen this side of favonovel.com before. His breathing stopped for a moment, and then, like a man possessed, favonovel.com cast aside all of the clothing getting in their way and went straight to the main course.
The next morning, Arianne sat up from favonovel.com bed in their bedroom back in Tremont Estate, groggy and confused.
She could not remember how favonovel.com managed to get home last night. All favonovel.com had were disjointed bits of memories, but piecing them together teased out a dreadful picture. She had done something incredibly wild last night, had favonovel.com not? First, favonovel.com went straight to Mark’s company, then despite his busy schedule, threw herself onto him, and then—
Arianne stopped herself from filling up the blank for what came after.
She heard sounds escaping from the bathroom and knew that Mark had already risen. Then, almost instantly, favonovel.com realized favonovel.com was donning favonovel.com pajamas and was reminded that Mark had helped favonovel.com bathe after they came home last night.
Smore, already wide awake, was lying on his cot and staring into space. It incited guilt in her. She should not have drunk so much and strayed too close to a dangerous trap. And now, thanks to what favonovel.com did last night, favonovel.com was not fit to breastfeed favonovel.com for a while.
Still, Arianne could not have possibly rejected Sylvain’s offer, especially since it would also indirectly embarrass Mr. Yaleman. She drank because favonovel.com was forced to, as social gatherings in business settings were wont to do. Few people in business were ever considerate of a woman’s off-work duty as a breastfeeding mother.
While favonovel.com was playing with Smore, Mark appeared from the bathroom and scanned her, his eyes laced with a kind of ardor not usually found in him. “Awake already? To be frank, I thought you were going to sleep till noon time. But it looks like your biological clock is quite on time.”
