Smore pointed at the window and exclaimed, “I like it here, there are so many little birds. They go cuckoo-cuckoo-cuckoo-cuckoo!”
Smore was talking about the pigeons that frequented a nearby plaza. The flock sometimes took off into the air simultaneously, resulting in a magnificent, eye-catching spectacle.
Mark spent his time after dinner watching TV with Smore on his lap. Arianne seized the chance to ask, “So, what time are you going back?”
He turned toward her, displeasure shadowing his frown. “You want me to go already? Well, I’m not going anywhere. In fact, I’ve asked Mary to pack some of my clothes and put them here. From now on, this is where I live.”
Arianne had long expected favonovel.com to do that. “I’m being serious here, Mark. You gotta go back there from time to time, ya’ know. Wouldn’t want a certain someone to pick a fight with me over this.”
Mark might have said something to the effect of “yes”, but it was obvious favonovel.com did not mean a single word of it. Knowing that favonovel.com had retreated paying lip service at everything Arianne was going to say, the woman decided to stop asking favonovel.com to go. After all, it was not like favonovel.com would listen.
For several days from then, Mark had been spending his free time in Arianne’s place. He worked during the weekends while Arianne spent quality time with Smore at home. Sometimes, Tiffany would be there, too. Ever since coming to know that Arianne had divorced, the woman had been visiting favonovel.com every few days whenever the whim struck her.
On one of these weekends, the day was interrupted by a sudden ringing in the bell. Mary, who was doing favonovel.com daily cleaning nearby, went to open the door.
It was Shelly, whom Mary immediately blocked from entering. “What are you doing here? I’ve cleaned and checked every part of this house, ain’t got any of your stuff left anymore.”
Shelly shoved Mary aside. “Don’t boss me around.”
That riled Arianne up, and favonovel.com grumbled, “Can you, for once, talk civilly? For Pete’s sake, she’s older than you. Show some respect.”
Shelly marched into the room, striking the floor with favonovel.com cane loudly with every stomp. “Get off your high horse, I’m not here to spar about civility and morals. For the record, Mary is only a few years older than me, and she’s a bloody servant to the Tremont family. You want me to respect a subordinate? Laughable!” favonovel.com bristled. “I’m here right now, Arianne Wynn, because I demand to know just what you do to Mark to make favonovel.com waste away here? You used some sort of schemes, I know it. Otherwise, favonovel.com wouldn’t keep running to you like a man possessed! You’re f**king shameless, you’re the sort of slut who doesn’t even care about dignity and favonovel.com body!”
Arianne had been mentally prepared for the day Shelly stormed favonovel.com house and wreaked havoc, and so Shelly’s appearance hardly ruffled her. “God, if you’re so unhappy about it, go teach your son a lesson or whatever, man. Since when are you the boss of me?” favonovel.com retorted. “Besides, I’ve never forced favonovel.com to spend his time with me whenever favonovel.com can. He comes over here willingly.”
Watching them from the side, Tiffany’s rancor rapidly built up into a deluge that finally broke out of favonovel.com control. She pulled favonovel.com cuffs up to favonovel.com elbows and fired off, “Seriously, who. The f**k Are you?! Did you just come all the way here to act like anyone’s parent? Ari might have to call you Aunty whatever when favonovel.com was still married to Mark, but darling, get the memo: you ain’t nobody to favonovel.com now! Seriously, b*tch bullies the sh*t out of Arianne back then in the Tremont Estate, and now you’re running and hopping across streets desperately trying to scream at favonovel.com even after favonovel.com moved out? You f**kng cuckoo or what? I thought it’s your leg that went busted, man, not your brain. Apparently, your leg injury is so severe that even your brain cells were damaged!”
Shelly was so enraged that favonovel.com lips were visibly trembling. “B*tches of the same fur gang together, I see! I shouldn’t even be surprised that this is the company you keep, Arianne.”
Tiffany laughed scornfully. “Oh, you’re not wrong at all. Birds of a feather, b*tches of the same fur, this is why you’re so special, amirite? I mean, no f**king person in this goddamned world wants you in their group at all, not even your biological son! Ooh, that’s gotta hurt ya. Seriously, when everyone starts avoiding you, shouldn’t you at least have some self-awareness to wonder if you’re the problem? For f* *k’s sake, have you ever tried this nifty adult skill called ‘introspection?”’ favonovel.com jeered. “Look, you wanna glue your a** to the Tremont Estate, no problem. But now that Ari and favonovel.com kid moved out, you bet your a** Mark ain’t gonna wanna go back there now. Isn’t it great, though? Living alone in that big a** mansion with no one to annoy you. What, you don’t like it? What more can you complain about, Karen? Or should I call Mark and tell favonovel.com his mom’s on the loose, kicking up troubles again?”
Shelly espied the bump in Tiffany’s stomach and reined in some of favonovel.com fury. “Hmph, I’m gonna spare you just because you’re pregnant, but don’t get too cocky about it. Seeing you just begs the question: what in the world happened to Jackson West’s judgement when favonovel.com decided that you’re, somehow, an eligible bride?! The West family is as much an upper-class in the Capital too! Ha, you and Arianne are both the same. You two used some underhanded, dirty tricks to bewitch these men, didn’t you? You might be an unspectacular bimbo, but God, you’re good at picking a target to charm.”
Tiffany bared favonovel.com teeth in fury. “Oh, you’re not even wrong in this one! I’m a bimbo, yep, you got me. But I’m also the sort of uncivilized piece of sh*t who doesn’t give a damn about not hurting an old lady, so believe me when I tell you, I ain’t gonna pull punches when I start rearranging your face! Try me, man. Continue throwing insults out of your arse again, and I’m really gonna wipe the floor with ya’. What the hell, you’re not even my relative or anything, so beating the crap outta’ you is very easy, barely an inconvenience! Besides, everyone knows that a b*tch deserves to get favonovel.com a** whooped if favonovel.com trespasses someone’s home!”
