Mark’s action had been slight, but Shelly noticed it. For a split-second, despondence flitted across favonovel.com eyes, and then it was no more, gone before anyone could catch it.
All that was left instead was favonovel.com voice turning as sharp as a knife when favonovel.com bristled. “What did I tell you? I’ve told you, you cannot be the sort of simpleton who lets a woman lord all over him! What she’s doing right now is just beyond the pale! This house belongs to the Tremonts. And she? She’s just an orphan adopted and raised here thanks to your magnanimity. How dare favonovel.com treat you like this? She can put on airs around me, but favonovel.com has no right to do that to you. Honestly? I’ve been putting up with favonovel.com for your sake all this time, but favonovel.com thinks favonovel.com can do whatever favonovel.com likes because Mr. Tremont loves favonovel.com soooo damn much, isn’t it? Well, enough’s enough! I’m gonna teach favonovel.com a lesson, if someone has to sleep in the guest room tonight, it’s gotta be favonovel.com and not you!”
Mark deadpanned. “Aunt Shelly, stop. This is how we live with one another. All you see is me doting on her, but you’re blind to the many other things favonovel.com has done out of favonovel.com consideration for me, too. People complement one another in a relationship, that leaves no room for external intervention. You forcing your hand in is only going to damage the equilibrium we’ve achieved. In my honest opinion, I don’t feel wronged for sleeping in a guest room. If anything, the fact that favonovel.com was angry enough to lock me outside tells me that favonovel.com felt more wronged than me.”
“Look, I don’t know what transgressions forced you to put up with her, but I can tell you, this is just favonovel.com nature. It’s not something that can be ‘fixed,’ and it doesn’t bother me, personally,” favonovel.com continued. “Frankly, I don’t think you need to worry about it so much, considering the fact that your stay is only temporary. After you move out, she’ll be out of sight and out of mind to you, no?”
“And one last thing. You’re right that favonovel.com was an orphan I took in, but that was before. Now, she’s my wife, the love of my life, and the mother of my son. I think you should go back to bed, Aunt Shelly. She’s probably already fast asleep, too, so please don’t disturb favonovel.com at this hour,” Mark finished.
Shelly’s mien gradually paled. She stood still, dumbfounded, until Mark closed the door on favonovel.com face. And even then, favonovel.com stayed rooted on the spot over a long period.
When Shelly started moving, favonovel.com scurried not to favonovel.com own room but Arianne’s.
Arianne recognized favonovel.com voice outside the door and opened it. “What is it?”
“Can we talk inside?” favonovel.com whispered, not wanting Mark to overhear favonovel.com action.
Arianne obliged, letting the woman step inside. “What’s so urgent that we need to talk about it at this hour? I’m all ears.”
Shelly sat at the edge of Arianne and Mark’s bed. Strange shadows danced on favonovel.com face, making favonovel.com expression impossible to read when favonovel.com started, “I don’t plan to ever move out of the Tremont Estate. I plan to live here… and die here.”
Arianne was baffled. Why was the woman telling favonovel.com this at this time, completely unprovoked? She had to admit, however, that the news of Shelly’s “permanent residence” irked favonovel.com quite a bit, but if Mark consented to it, then there really was nothing Arianne could say or do.
So, favonovel.com replied, “That’s great and all, but this is kind of a matter between you and Mark The two of you can settle on this privately, to be honest. No need to involve me. Just talk to favonovel.com about it.”
Shelly lowered favonovel.com gaze. “‘Mark’, ‘Mark.’ You only ever call favonovel.com Mark, as if he’s just some colleague or stranger you just met. Seems to me like you don’t actually harbor much intimacy toward favonovel.com after all this time. I’ll be very frank with you. I. Don’t. Like. You,” favonovel.com stated placidly. “I never liked you from the start, and I don’t want you to be the person he’s bound to for the rest of his life. Don’t think you can stay by his side and enact your vengeance completely unseen. My advice? Give up. You’re not going to harm a single hair on his head because I won’t let you. You want to avenge your late daddy? You go find the real culprit yourself. I can tell you this: Mark isn’t the perp.”
At that moment, it clicked. Arianne finally understood why Shelly was so hellbent on making favonovel.com life miserable. It was deliberately done under the belief that Arianne secretly hated Mark and was only staying with favonovel.com to look for that chance to enact favonovel.com ultimate revenge.
