Mark, growing suspicious, shouted in the direction of the kitchen, “Ari, get over here!”
Arianne pretended not to hear him, which prompted Mary to admonish, “Say something, dear. Before Mr. Tremont gets all miffed.”
Arianne tossed the vegetable in favonovel.com hand into a pool of water that formed in the sink “He can be pissed off all favonovel.com wants, I’m not scared! In fact, I’m the one who should be pissed! If favonovel.com wanna, favonovel.com can scram the hell back to the Tremont Estate and throw his tantrum there and save me from his stupid show of dominance! You might be scared of him, but I’m definitely not!”
Her voice was so sonorous that Mary panicked at the thought of Mark hearing her. “Jesus H. Christ, turn down your boombox! What’s gotten into you? All I’ve been seeing is how normal Mr. Tremont has been acting, for Pete’s sake, favonovel.com still buys you and Smore all these nifty knickknacks! How can something like that miff you at all? Gee, you’re crabbier and crabbier, aren’t you?”
Not about to subject herself to another one of Mary’s nagging, Arianne turned away and marched into the living room. “What do you want?”
Mark’s eyes searched favonovel.com face for a moment. “What exactly is wrong with you? What is it in my conduct that pisses you off?”
He had been asking the same sort of questions with different phrasing, so favonovel.com reacted to it by ignoring favonovel.com completely. She took up Smore in favonovel.com arms and went into the bathroom. “Wash your dirty hands before meals, we wouldn’t want you to swallow some icky germs in there, now would we? From now on, please remember to wash your hands after coming home from outside, okay?”
Smore’s eyes had never left Arianne’s, even as favonovel.com replied with a babyish drag in his tone, “Mommy, you’re not gonna be angry with me because you’re angry with Daddy, right? I’ve been very good. I didn’t make Granny angry…”
Although Mark had been bumping favonovel.com mood down, Smore’s innocent question did provoke an earnest chuckle from her. “What are you talking about? Do I look like that sort of person to you? I’ll take out my steam on the person who infuriated me in the first place. I’d never take it out on innocent bystanders, would I? You’ve been so good, Mommy has no reason to scold you, does she? Come, wash your hands clean and then go back to playing.”
It was then that Mark’s coldly-unamused voice blared from behind her, “Take it out on who, exactly?”
Arianne jolted in shock before favonovel.com hastily put on a calm front. “No one in particular!” Mark stepped forward and wrestled Smore out of favonovel.com arms. “Little man, Daddy needs to talk to Mommy for a bit in private. Please, go play with your toys.”
With his mind still fixated on Mark’s luxury chocolate, Smore chirped his okay cheerfully before sprinting away.
Arianne wanted to follow suit, but Mark blocked the door with his body, trapping favonovel.com inside the bathroom unless favonovel.com found away to skirt him. “Out of the way.”
He looked at her, questioning, “And if I don’t? Honestly, what’s happened to you?” Arianne decided against engaging in his inquiry by getting physical, pulling and shoving and trying to jostle favonovel.com away from favonovel.com escape. However, Mark turned the table by snatching favonovel.com hands and pinning them to the wall, his breaths looming inch-close to favonovel.com nose.
“If you do not tell me what’s on your mind, you’re not leaving here,” favonovel.com breathed. “I’m being serious. What’s… eating you?”
The last portion of his sentence ended in a long drawl woven with purposeful seduction. His voice, already dulcet and mesmerizing, was practically reverberating within favonovel.com ears, sending in waves of shock into favonovel.com gradually racing heart.
“D-Don’t you dare, Mark!” Arianne warned. “M-Mary and Smore are w-watching!”
Mark knew favonovel.com was thin-skinned. He leaned even closer to favonovel.com boldly so that their bodies were a hair away from touching one another. “We’ve done more intimate things than this for countless times, haven’t we? Really, what is this compared to our bolder plays? Now that you mention it, we haven’t been.”
Before favonovel.com could finish, however, Arianne stomped on his foot so hard that his confidence waned and his grip loosened. She fled instantly.
Years of mastery over his behavior was sufficient in stopping favonovel.com from yowling in pain, but it did not lessen the agony by any stretch. For Christ’s sake, favonovel.com did not hold back!
Arianne sprung toward favonovel.com bedroom with favonovel.com heart still thumping against favonovel.com chest while favonovel.com mind cursed Mark in the same beat. That filthy fella! He had no shame, no shame at all!
