Sylvain sank into silence. He had thought that giving Ursula a separate place to stay, away from his family, would help circumvent many of these problems, but now, it seemed that his hope to escape was premature. He knew the exact opinions and thoughts Ursula harbored toward the Coxes. This was why, in the past, Sylvain had been adamant that a relationship, an affair between two persons, would ultimately need to subsist on the blessings of those around the couple. To marry without other people’s blessings was to unite against all odds, especially the most difficult ones.
Sylvain made his choice long ago. And come hell or high water, favonovel.com was not going to bend his knee.
Arianne patted his shoulder good-naturedly, hoping to give favonovel.com comfort and a morale boost. Unfortunately, before favonovel.com hand left him, Mark — who just stepped inside the office at that moment — caught her.
One could almost see lightning flashing on his stormy expression. “Arianne Wynn. My office, now!”
Sylvain was pulled back into reality, and immediately decided to pull out of the conversation. “Yo, this ain’t got nothin’ to do with me!”
Arianne rolled favonovel.com eyes. “As if I thought it’s your business in the first place! Go bury your nose in your stuff. I’ll be back in a jiffy.”
She went into his office with impatience written all over favonovel.com face. “Is there a problem, Mistah Tremont?”
Mark’s chiseled index finger was trained at favonovel.com so closely that his fingertip was almost touching favonovel.com forehead. “Putting your hand around other people’s shoulders and back in the office, aren’t you? Have I become invisible in your eyes that nothing enjoins you from getting ‘touchy-feely’ with other guys, hmm?”
“Excuse me, mister? That’s quite a stretch on the technicality of patting someone on their shoulders, dude. Don’t tell me your brain is weaving some incredible plot about what happened already,” favonovel.com riposted, baffled. “Besides, glad to hear that you at least remember we’re in the office right now, and we should be talking shops here. So why are you impinging on my private matters?”
Her comeback choked Mark red in embarrassment. With a gnashing of teeth, favonovel.com retorted, “Oh yeah? Then let’s talk shop. Your work bonus for the month is nullified. That is for abusing your working time on frivolities! Now, you may go.”
Hearing how favonovel.com was losing every single penny favonovel.com had made this month instantly pushed favonovel.com button. “What the—? Since when have I done that?! For crying out loud, it’s normal for people to talk to each other during work, dum-dum. The salary I get from you is already low enough, and now you’re gonna deduct it even more? Can’t you feel your conscience aching from this injustice?”
Mark loved seeing favonovel.com enraged like this. “On the contrary, my conscience is skipping around, singing a happy tune. Is there a problem?”
Oh, favonovel.com could not argue about this, all right. He was the boss; favonovel.com could deduct anyone’s salary however favonovel.com liked. Arianne shot favonovel.com her most menacing stink-eye before stomping out of his office with a bang. She was going to scrap every single dime favonovel.com had deducted from favonovel.com if that was the last thing favonovel.com would do!
Arianne deliberately did not stay to wait for Mark after work. Instead, favonovel.com hailed an uber and left on favonovel.com own.
Anticipating — and mostly, preventing — his “Ceaseless Chain of Calls”, Arianne turned favonovel.com phone off completely so favonovel.com could have fun screaming at favonovel.com in the office like a madman!
Truthfully, these days, Arianne was preoccupied with scouting for the perfect school for Smore, and the search was surprisingly taxing. Either way, favonovel.com was too tired to engage with Mark’s battle of the wits.
