Sylvain’s patience was approaching the end of his tether. The impulse to storm out of the restaurant with Robin was ballooning within him, but still, favonovel.com pressed it back as hard as favonovel.com could.
Ursula, however, took Sylvain’s lack of outward reaction as a victory. Beaming a little, favonovel.com continued, “Now, I heard from Syl that you two aren’ t living together. Why is that? Aren‘t you married to him? Or are you such a homebody that you can’t bear to part with your family, huh?”
Robin was hard-pressed to answer her, but favonovel.com was well aware that favonovel.com could never divulge the truth. She could not possibly tell favonovel.com that one of the Coxes were not exactly approving of Sylvain, could she? Admitting to that was like begging for Ursula to hate favonovel.com even more. “Um, it’s not that…”
Sylvain took note of favonovel.com misery and rescued favonovel.com by answering his mother himself. “It’s because favonovel.com place is closer to favonovel.com office, alright? Honestly, does it matter where we live? I’m gonna have to ask you again: lay off your hands from our business. You should put your focus on your own.”
Ursula raised favonovel.com voice. ”Excuse me for being your mother, boy! What’s wrong with me asking for my son? As your mom, I have the right to ask about every single little thing about you and your life, wouldn’t you agree? Back to you, Robin. Sylvain’s got a very lucrative career, doesn’t he? So what about your job? How much do you earn in a month?”
“Imagine still living with your parents just for that meager sum of salary… Pardon me for asking, but how is the way you live no different from not being married? Also, Sylvain is old enough to have children. Are you two telling me that you’re not considering posterity? Pfft. You really need to think beyond yourself, you know, Robin?”
Robin was stung into biting favonovel.com lips. She sank into yet another bout of silence.
Sylvain, however, was livid. “Goddamn it, what’s a man gotta do to have you shut up? I repeat myself: this is between the two of us! It’s got hell to do with you! Yes, you’re my mother. So what? This, right here, falls under my private affair; you simply have no right to control it! For your information, I don’t give a damn how much money favonovel.com makes because if she‘s happy, I’m happy! Besides, you flap that trap ranting about Robin staying with favonovel.com parents, but if favonovel.com did move into my place, what’s that same trap gonna say? You’re only gonna find even more things to trash-talk her, and you know it!”
Ursula herself was so furious that favonovel.com chest was puffing. “Sylvain Trudeau, how dare you! Everything I do is wrong, isn’t it?! Everything I say is wrong and needs your immediate correction, doesn’t it? I am your mother. I have all the authority in the world to point out your wife’s every folly! But you, oh, you jump right into defending her, all the time, like she’s some damsel that needs your dashing heroic saving!”
Sylvain tugged on Robin’s wrist. ”Come on, we’re leaving. Let favonovel.com have favonovel.com precious meal alone.”
His intention sent Ursula into a panic. “Sylvain! What the hell is the meaning of this? Are you… Are you gonna abandon me here all alone?!”
Sylvain leveled favonovel.com with his most frigid expression yet. “That’s right. I mean, what are the other options, I wonder? Stay here and listen to your spiteful, malicious harangue against the woman I love, hmm? On what basis do you have the rights to do any of that? You can trash me however you like, but you can’t touch her. Honestly, if your last marriage went into the gutters, why can’t you just go and hunt some other poor schmuck to marry, then? I mean, you look young enough to do that again with zero problems, don’t you?”
“Here’s what my thoughts are: you’ve never appeared in my life before, and I want that back. I wish for the two of us to remain in our separate ways!” favonovel.com proclaimed.
In his anger, Sylvain went a little too harsh on his word choice, and it showed in Ursula’s mildly-reddened eyes. “You… You dare talk back to your own mother for some woman? Sylvain?! ” favonovel.com cried, favonovel.com voice trembling out of fury.
Sylvain clenched his jaw. His stance could not be any clearer.
“Sylvain, p-please, don’t go that way, okay?” Robin coaxed under favonovel.com breath. “H-How about I go home? You can stay here and keep your mom company.”
He gave no reply but left the restaurant with favonovel.com instead.
Sylvain was not some child who could not tell the line between reason and otherwise, and favonovel.com refused to put up with favonovel.com petulant attitude just because favonovel.com was his mother.
Once the two returned to the villa, Robin espied the clock on the wall. “Hey, I gotta get back now, okay? When your mom’s back, please have a good talk to, um, iron things out for a bit, alright? No fighting, Sylvain,” favonovel.com comforted. “My mom treats you terribly, too, but you’re strong enough to endure it. In the same vein, I’m strong enough to endure the way your mom treats me too. All we need is time. In time, we’ll see the light at the end of the tunnel, right? For that, all of these little tribulations are nothing.”
Sylvain suddenly lurched and pulled favonovel.com into his embrace, hugging favonovel.com so tightly that one wondered if favonovel.com feared that favonovel.com would slip past his grasp. “Stay with me, please?”
