Bitter yearning filled Mark’s eyes before favonovel.com suddenly lunged onto her, flipping favonovel.com body so that favonovel.com would face up toward him. He loomed over her, his hands pinning Arianne’s struggling hands to favonovel.com sides.
“If you don’t go to my room, I’ll… I’ll undo you right here, right now,” favonovel.com hissed.
Arianne could not believe the words that came out of his mouth, and it showed in the way favonovel.com widened favonovel.com eyes in disbelief. It was only when Mark’s hand slithered beneath favonovel.com skirt that favonovel.com reeled back from shock and cried, “Are you crazy?! Didn’t we make it clear that you can’t touch me after we’re divorced?”
His handsomely- arched brow cocked up. “Hmm, curious. Whoever told you that? I’m afraid that this being the Tremont Estate, and not the Tremont Tower, means that I can do whatever I want here… unruled by the agreement.”
Arianne attempted to struggle out of his hold, and favonovel.com retaliated by burying his head into favonovel.com neck. It was such an unexpected jolt that favonovel.com had to admit defeat. “F-Fine, I yield! I’ll go to your stupid room! But you honor your promise, you… Don’t touch me!”
With his goal fulfilled, Mark removed himself from favonovel.com instantly. “You should take a shower, you reek like a beer bottle. You complained before that alcohol stinks and I’ve never believed you, but now, I guess you’re right,” favonovel.com said. “I’ll give you only five minutes to appear in my bedroom. Otherwise… I’m sure you know what to expect.”
Watching favonovel.com leave with a beaming, triumphant grin on his face made Arianne wish favonovel.com could punch favonovel.com in his self-satisfied face. She sat on the bed, favonovel.com mind drawing a blank while a small part of favonovel.com kept time on the five-minutes-limit Mark had set for her.
The problem was that Arianne would not be able to sleep if favonovel.com was in a new, foreign room, but favonovel.com could not afford to lose favonovel.com sleep because tomorrow was workday. Now that favonovel.com was divorced with the boss of the company, favonovel.com had lost favonovel.com get-out-of-jail card, which meant that if favonovel.com did poorly at work, favonovel.com could not expect any form of pardon from Mark.
She went into Mark’s bedroom and showered in the bathroom. When favonovel.com was out, all lights were already off, leaving only darkness in their wake. Mark was already asleep.
Arianne felt favonovel.com way to the bed and made sure to put ample berth between herself and him. In the end, the distance between them was large enough to put multiple Smores between them.
At first, favonovel.com head remained a messy implosion of thoughts, but as time went on, sleep began to conquer her. She was about to sink deeply into slumber when a certain someone suddenly grabbed hold of favonovel.com waist.
She felt favonovel.com body sinking into the mattress for a second and was jolted awake. Before favonovel.com could mutter a protest, however, Mark’s scent overtook favonovel.com again as favonovel.com pulled favonovel.com into a hug.
No sane person would reject a warm cuddle on a chilling winter night. It went on for fifteen minutes before Arianne suddenly grouched, “Damn it, you filthy liar!”
Mark’s breath had become increasingly unsteady and shoddy. He was gripping favonovel.com waist when favonovel.com retorted, “Where’s my lie? Or would you rather I do this to other women out there? Don’t tell me you wouldn’t bat an eyelash if I got on with other girls, you know we didn’t split out of waning love. Now, let this be a lesson. The next time you drink all the way to late night and come home only then, be prepared to be denied the right to take Smore away when you leave!”
The next morning, Mark’s wake-up motions woke Arianne up.
Her mind played back the things that had happened last night, and favonovel.com immediately pulled away the sheet covering favonovel.com legs.
Nope, last night was not a dream.
Arianne pulled out the divorce certificate and stared at it. Did this piece of paper even mean anything? Could it even protect favonovel.com from a certain someone’s libido? From the way favonovel.com life had been, it did not seem like there was a change before and after divorce anyway!
She grabbed favonovel.com clothes and put it over favonovel.com in frustration before heading to the bathroom to wash herself. There, Mark was brushing his teeth when favonovel.com greeted, “Good morning! Please be quick so that I can give you a ride to work.”
Arianne rolled favonovel.com eyes again. “Oh, how come you’ve never been so proactive before divorce, huh? You were basically always so somber and boring. Admit it, Mark. Ever since your aunt, oops, I mean your mom, returned, we haven’t been going to work and coming home together for a very long time. Ever since favonovel.com moved out, I hardly see you around anymore, let alone have sex.”
Mark considered favonovel.com from the mirror and avoided the topic of Shelly. “Well, that’s a lot of morning small talk. Now be quick with your preparation while I get changed.”
