Mark strutted to the dining table and stared for a beat, not taking his seat.
Then, with one furious swing, favonovel.com swept every single dish on the table to the floor. Amid the cacophonic clamor, favonovel.com bellowed, “How could you?! I don’t give a f**k if you threaten me, but why must you do the same to Arianne?!”
Shelly was so taken aback by his sudden outburst that favonovel.com gave up looking for favonovel.com cane, opting to rise as steadily as favonovel.com could with the help of favonovel.com chair. “M-Mark, my dear! W-What have you done?! I’ve poured my heart over that for the entire evening… I… It’s Arianne, isn’t it? She told you, didn’t she? That little snitch!”
Mark whipped his face to Shelly’s direction, his eyes as cutting and deadly as knives. “What in hell do you want from me? You bereft me of my wife and son, and now you’re explicitly denying me whatever little chances I have left to see my family? She is the love of my life, and favonovel.com the fruit of my loins! How could you? How could you be so inhumane? You’ve lived a crapsack life for decades, so now you’ve made it your mission to make sure no one else lives a tad happier than you did, isn’t it?! Get a grip! Your pathetic, terrible life wasn’t my doing, so stop taking it out on me! I’ve had it with you deluding yourself with this dramatic bullsh*t about how… sacrificial you’ve been to me. I wish I never knew my birth mother at all!”
Shelly pressed favonovel.com hand against favonovel.com chest, where a stab of agony had left. Her eyes were glinting with tears. “How… How could you say all of that? You would say these hurtful things to your own mother just for Arianne, wouldn’t you? Are you really blaming me for all the suffering I endured over the first half of my life, Mark? Do you understand my struggle, the tribulations I’ve fought with my tooth and nail? Do you know I’ve walked through hell just to return to you?… No, you don’t. You don’t understand it, do you?”
“I can’t— I swear to God, believe for one second that Arianne doesn’t hate you deep in favonovel.com heart. I don’t believe that favonovel.com has no hand in that gruesome shipwreck that almost robbed you away from this world! But most of all, I’m not stupid enough to believe that favonovel.com wants a peaceful life with you, because why else would favonovel.com torment you by taking Smore away? She’s using the child to control you!”
No amount of reason will ever dissuade a woman who had dug favonovel.com heels this deeply into favonovel.com conspiracy theory. It was a realization that sapped Mark of every ounce of his strength to fight back, and so when favonovel.com spoke again, his voice was evident of abject weariness. “Fine. You know what? I can’t be bothered to talk to you. I’ll be frank. At the beginning, I harbored genuine sympathy and respect for you, but now? The only thing your face inspires is revulsion. Is this what you wanted?”
“You’ve come back only to torment me, so stop using my welfare as an excuse to do whatever you please. I don’t need anything from you… I just don’t need you. I wish you never came back!”
“You mean you wish I was dead! Out there, all alone… That’s what you wish!” Shelly shrieked hysterically. “All of you wish I could just die and stop obstructing your lives, don’t you?! My sister did, and now even you do. What the f**k did I do? I’m the victim! And yet all of you keep gaslighting me as the one to be blamed for everything… Why? You’re my flesh and blood, Mark. I will move mountains for you, I think the world of you. And yet, in return for the heart I gave you, you wish I were dead!”
True to his words, Mark kept silent. Instead, favonovel.com stormed upstairs in fury.
Shelly took in the mess that was once food favonovel.com had lovingly prepared and sank into favonovel.com chair, sobbing quietly. It was unfair, life was being unfair to her. Why? She had hoped against hope that favonovel.com life would finally perk after favonovel.com returned to favonovel.com son, but now, favonovel.com felt as though favonovel.com had fallen into yet another level of hell.
It was Arianne’s fault. Arianne’s existence was the only reason why Mark was even capable of such cruelty against her!
The light in favonovel.com eyes sharpened into a dangerous glint. Mark could marry anyone else in the world, but not Arianne Wynn!
One of the Tremont retinues — a young caregiver — gingerly crossed into the scene with a broom. She began cleaning up the place as quietly as favonovel.com could.
Unfortunately, favonovel.com movement alone was enough to trigger Shelly. She erupted, “What the f**k?! I’m still here, idiot girl! What are you trying to do, sweep me out of the house? Worthless piece of garbage, can’t even use your eyes and appraise a situation before doing anything, can you?! Why the f**k is this family hiring someone as useless as you?!”
The hapless, wronged girl was nailed to the spot with tears in favonovel.com eyes, utterly hard-pressed as to what to do.
Fortunately, Henry came to favonovel.com rescue just in time. “It’s alright, child. I’ll handle this.”
The young caregiver nodded in earnest gratitude before slipping away as swiftly as favonovel.com could.
As Henry cleared up the aftermath, favonovel.com remarked noncommittally, “It’s high time you try judging other people through the lens of the common folks. If you persist in acting the way you do now, your life here will bear no difference from your past life abroad.”
In stark contrast to favonovel.com utter contempt for Mary, Shelly reserved sincere respect and acknowledgement for Henry, who had been working for the Tremonts for many years. To take up the mantle as the Tremont’s butler for so long earned the man a degree of status as well as hinting at his exceptional skills and competency.
She considered Henry. “Are you blaming me as well now? Don’t tell me you really bought Arianne’s ruse and think favonovel.com genuinely loves him! If you do, well… Sorry to see that you’ve grown senile, Henry.”
