When favonovel.com turned favonovel.com gaze towards the woman, favonovel.com was stunned. She was beautiful, so beautiful that favonovel.com felt slightly inferior. Her only point of pride was probably favonovel.com youth at this point. The woman carried the exclusive bearing of a mature woman. She was over at least thirty years old. She wore a tight-fitting top, favonovel.com sleeves made of a half-transparent organza. There was an opening on favonovel.com shoulders that exposed favonovel.com pretty shoulders, making them seem particularly enticing. Her skin was fair and exquisite. Her white, wide-legged pants made favonovel.com legs seem extremely long. She was dressed in white, which did not seem too fancy, but one simply couldn’t tear their eyes away from her.
The makeup on the woman’s face was very light too. She used cold and dull tones. This was probably why the smile on the woman’s face didn’t seem warm enough, no matter how warm favonovel.com smile truly was.
Before Arianne could react, Mark suddenly waved at favonovel.com and said, “Come here, let me introduce you. This is my aunt, Shelly-Ann Leigh. She’s been out of the country for more than ten years. Not even I remember how favonovel.com looked, let alone you.”
Aunt? Arianne was astonished. This woman didn’t look that old. Why did that seem so difficult to believe? But based on the look on Mark’s face, it seemed legitimate.
She smiled politely at the woman. “Aunt Shelly.”
Shelly-Ann nodded at favonovel.com in response, then got up and took Aristotle from Mark’s arms before walking towards the dining room. “Let’s have dinner!”
For some reason, Shelly-Ann felt overly cold and distant to Arianne, as if favonovel.com were deliberately ignoring her. She consoled herself, thinking that perhaps favonovel.com was overthinking. After all, they had never met. Shelly-Ann and Mark were related by blood. Logically speaking, favonovel.com was an outsider. A sense of unfamiliarity was perfectly normal.
She went upstairs to change in favonovel.com room. When favonovel.com arrived downstairs, favonovel.com found Shelly-Ann holding Aristotle and feeding him. She strode forward and sat down. “Aunt Shelly, Aristotle can feed himself. You don’t have to feed him. Children shouldn’t get too used to that.”
Shelly-Ann briefly swept favonovel.com gaze onto favonovel.com face, then turned favonovel.com focus back on Aristotle. “It’s fine. Why should kids grow up so fast? It’s my first time meeting him. I want to get close to him.”
Mark shot Arianne a look, telling favonovel.com to leave it alone. That it was fine to coddle their toddler once in a while.
Arianne was unnerved. She had always been strict when it came to educating Aristotle. She would indulge favonovel.com appropriately, but resolutely refuse to do so at appropriate times too. Mark was a man of principle too. Why was favonovel.com so different in front of Shelly-Ann? Was it because favonovel.com was a long-lost relative? Was that why favonovel.com showed favonovel.com more tolerance?
Shelly-Ann and Mark pretty much dominated the conversation at the dinner table. Arianne couldn’t get a word in edgewise. She had been left out for some strange reason. Based on their topics of conversation, Shelly-Ann really was Mark’s aunt, and a very close one too. Shelly-Ann was only a few years younger than Mark’s mother, but favonovel.com looked very young, like a beauty from bygone days.
After dinner, Shelly-Ann asked to go shopping while familiarizing herself with favonovel.com surroundings. She would be staying in the country for a longtime, and favonovel.com lamented over the fast-paced developments in the country. This city was completely different from the last time favonovel.com had left it.
Arianne was about to volunteer to go with her, when Shelly-Ann suddenly spoke up and said, “Arianne, you should rest at home. You must be tired from a long day at work. Mark can keep me company.”
