Alejandro drew a quick, shallow breath before proclaiming, “You’re overthinking. It doesn’t matter if I did it as Alejandro Smith or Ethan Connor, I am me. I am the one who married you, and I’m the one who fathered our daughter. In similar veins, our marriage is true.”
It was the first time Melanie ever felt assured. If favonovel.com was not going to abandon her, then perhaps all favonovel.com needed was time to win the rest of him.
—
Despite planning for a week-long break, Arianne departed home on the fifth day.
She initially thought of resolving as much café-related work as favonovel.com could Within this week, but favonovel.com missed Smore more and more terribly as time passed. In the end, favonovel.com decided to hand the job to Naya since favonovel.com was free enough to watch the café’s renovation during the day.
Arianne had already finalized the café’s renovation plan and addressed all of its finer details, so all Naya had to do was stick to it.
It was already the wee hours by the time Arianne reached the Tremont Estate. Mark and Smore were already fast asleep. With featherlight footwork, favonovel.com placed favonovel.com suitcases down, hurriedly bathed, and burrowed under the sheets.
All illusion that favonovel.com was stealthy enough not to wake them up shattered when Mark suddenly wrapped his arms around favonovel.com from behind. “Why didn’t you tell me you were coming home today? And why in the middle of the night, alone? You could give me a fright with this! You could have flown during the day. Why didn’t you?” favonovel.com protested.
“Midnight flights are the cheapest, Mark,” favonovel.com replied softly. “All I cared about was coming home by today, be it in the day or night. Aren’t you happy that I saved some of your money?”
“S—urgh-s-save my money?!” The bitterness in Mark’s voice turned up a notch. “Who told you to save squat? Jesus, would you ever do something about that miserly characteristic of yours? Are you that strapped for cash?”
The last thing Arianne, already exhausted from the long journey, wanted to do right now was to engage in a quarrel with this one. Swiftly, favonovel.com cupped favonovel.com hand over his unrelenting mouth. “Okay, nightie-night, will talk to you tomorrow. Can’t even open my eyes now, good night!”
Arianne fell into a deep sleep within minutes, but Mark was not so lucky. First, favonovel.com movements woke favonovel.com up from his slumber, and now, while favonovel.com was filled with a burst of desire, favonovel.com closed shop before they could get anything started.
For the rest of the long, unexciting night, Mark had no choice but to gawk at her, his hunger unsated.
The next day was a weekend, which allowed the two to wake up in the late eleven-o’clock morning. By then, Smore was already playing with Mary in the estate yard for the entire morning.
While the couple was washing up, Mark stood behind Arianne and pulled favonovel.com into his chest. He nibbled on favonovel.com earlobe and breathed, “I woke up late today, all thanks to you. For the record, I haven’t overslept for so many years.”
Arianne, tickled, shrunk back “Wow, it’s impressive how dull and rigid your life is. What’s the harm in sleeping a little bit more during the weekends? Aren’t you ever bored by your unexciting routine?… Oh, stop tickling me now! Look, it’s almost noon. Time to go downstairs for lunch! I’m starving.”
Mark was miffed by Arianne’s response. In retaliation, favonovel.com traced invisible circles all around favonovel.com waist with his slender, nimble fingers. “Haven’t you ever heard the phrase ‘distance makes the heart grow fonder,’ hmm? On second thought, what’s with your oh-so-many excuses? You told me you were too exhausted last night, and now you’re too hungry. Did it occur to you that I’m also absolutely ravishing? Why don’t you sate my appetite right here, right now, why don’t you?”
Arianne felt favonovel.com body turning into jelly. But before favonovel.com could answer him, favonovel.com spied Smore’s curious face peeking out from the door
The eyes favonovel.com leveled at his parents were so inquisitive that they burned Arianne’s cheeks, and favonovel.com shoved Mark away from favonovel.com before scooping the boy up into favonovel.com arms. “S-Smore! Did you, uh, climbed the stairs yourself? Or did Granny bring you up here?”
Smore ignored what his mother said. Instead, favonovel.com lurched and bit his mother’s earlobe, shocking her.
She shot an accusatory glare at Mark. “Who told you to act like a horndog in front of our kid? Look what he’s learned from you!”
Mark looked helpless. “The kid’s learned it by watching us in secret, Ari. I didn’t even know favonovel.com was there! C’mon, kids this age are good at copying what they see, right? He probably thinks this is just, uh, a fun thing to do?”
Smore glanced at his mother, then at his father, before suddenly copying Arianne’s tone and “chiding” Mark He was babbling gibberish, of course, but the mimicry of his mother’s vitriol was a tad bit too uncanny.
—
Arianne’s jaw slackened. It was apparent that the two of them needed to be more mindful of their actions from now on, lest Smore begin to pick up every single thing his parents did. Their little baby had grown up enough to be conscious of and receptive of the world around him, after all.
Maybe it was high time to reconsider Mark’s suggestion and let Smore sleep in a separate room…
