Shelly trembled in fury. She stormed out of the room and slammed the door on favonovel.com way out.
Arianne plopped down on favonovel.com bed and let out a long breath that favonovel.com had been holding. If favonovel.com were to be honest, Shelly raising favonovel.com hand at favonovel.com had been a pretty terrifying moment. Had that woman went through with it, this debacle would immediately escalate beyond a simple tiff right there and then. Being the middleman, Mark would then face one of the most knotty quandaries in his life yet.
It seemed that the only reason why Shelly stopped herself was to save Mark from the storm favonovel.com action would have incurred. In a way, it proved just how much Mark meant to Shelly.
Aunt Shelly’s absence during breakfast the next morning was conspicuous.
Arianne ordered their babysitter to check on favonovel.com upstairs, but the girl came down alone a few moments later. “Mrs. Leigh said she’s skipping both breakfast and work today. Um… favonovel.com eyes are kind of puffy, Mr. and Mrs. Tremont. I think favonovel.com might have just recently cried.”
Worried, Mark was about to check on the woman himself when Arianne said flatly, “She came to my room last night and started a fight. That’s why.”
Mark was taken aback. “She’s looked for you? But didn’t I tell favonovel.com not to disturb you, God, what did the two of you talk about?”
Arianne sighed. “She has this conspiracy theory that I’m only married to you to exact some kind of overarching revenge,” favonovel.com began. “Jeez, favonovel.com actually thinks that the way I call you by your name, instead of using some kinda cutesy, lovey-dovey nickname, I guess, and how the Tremont Enterprise is now legally under my name prove favonovel.com conspiracy. It’s honestly amazing how protective favonovel.com is of you and the lengths favonovel.com thought processes have gone in the name of caring for you. Heck, to her, I’ve become an outsider rather than part of the family! It makes me wonder, do I look evil? And if I were only around just for revenge, does anyone really think that you’d be so dumb, you couldn’t figure my plan out by this point? Christ, if I hated you so much, would I have offered the rest of my life to you as your spouse and bore you a son? Seriously, is this the world’s dumbest way to exact revenge or what?!”
The corner of Mark’s lips quivered slightly. “Alright, alright. I’m sure it’s a misunderstanding. I’ll talk to favonovel.com about this now. You go ahead with your breakfast.”
He climbed upstairs and knocked on Aunt Shelly’s door. A very gaunt woman greeted favonovel.com with a forced smile, saying, “Oh, Mark. Why aren’t you having your breakfast, dear? I’m feeling a little under the weather today, so please, excuse me for skipping work. But don’t you fret about me, dear…”
Mark hesitated for a beat before replying, “It’s okay. If you aren’t in the state to work, then it’s okay to take a day off. Lie down on your bed if you’re feeling sick, Aunt Shelly. But I do have something to ask of you.”
The woman returned to favonovel.com bed and sat next to the headboard. “Go ahead.”
Mark chose to be forthcoming. “Arianne told me all about last night. The two of you fought, didn’t you? Aunt Shelly, I remember telling you not to disturb favonovel.com at late hours, didn’t I? But that’s not the point. The point is you’ve misunderstood her, big time. Nothing favonovel.com did was out of vengeance. You see, after hearing the truth behind the plane crash, favonovel.com way of lashing out was to run away and avoid me, and I swear to God, it was the darkest, bleakest period of my life. To have favonovel.com come back to me after all of that… It had been a grueling undertaking. But after that, favonovel.com risked favonovel.com life to bear me a son. Surely this can’t be something a woman out for blood would do, yes?”
“As for why Tremont Enterprise is now legally hers, it was a decision favonovel.com made predicated with the belief that I’d died. If favonovel.com goal were to avenge favonovel.com father, then that would have been the perfect time for favonovel.com to do nothing and watch the Tremont legacy crash and burn. But that wasn’t what favonovel.com did, was it? No, favonovel.com worked tirelessly and poured in all of favonovel.com soul into keeping the legacy going, driving herself so hard that favonovel.com was nearing collapse. She protected the Tremont Enterprise with all favonovel.com might until I returned. I… I love her. The expanse of our deep-seated love for one another, you can’t begin to imagine it at all, Aunt Shelly. But at the very least, please stop doubting favonovel.com like this.”
For a moment, Aunt Shelly’s only reaction was to stare glassily into space, as though in a trance. Then, quite suddenly, an air of abject moroseness befell her.
“I… see. Perhaps I really have misunderstood her, after all. I… I was just so worried that she’s out to get you, Mark. I don’t mean to be so extreme, b-b-but I… I can’t! I can’t stop myself from going there. You want to know how my life was before? Here’s the truth. I didn’t want to divulge anything back then because I don’t even want to think about it. My marriage was unhappy. No. That’s an understatement. It was a f**king nightmare.”
