Mark frowned when favonovel.com saw the shocking wound on Arianne’s face. His tone also became panicked as favonovel.com said, “What happened to you?! Where did you go? What happened?”
Arianne did not dare to meet his gaze and could only lower favonovel.com head as favonovel.com calmly said, “I fell, hence the wound. I didn’t ignore your call on purpose. I lost my handbag, including my phone, wallet, and some other stuff. I’m sorry… for making you worry, but I’m fine.”
Mark was no fool. He could tell whether or not the wound on Arianne’s face was due to a fall after looking a little more closely. “Tell me the truth, don’t lie to me. I’m very clear with your character. Who else would be more clear than me about your tells when you lie?”
Arianne had expected Mark not to believe her, so favonovel.com pretended to be calm as favonovel.com dragged Mark back to the bedroom. Then, favonovel.com whispered in his ear as favonovel.com said, “I said that because I was afraid that Mary would be worried. Truth is, my handbag wasn’t stolen. Actually, I was robbed, and the wound on my face was from when I got scratched while struggling with the robbers I was absolutely shocked at the time, but they merely wanted my money, so they didn’t harm me. It’s fine since I’m all right, right? Why don’t we forget about it?”
Mark dropped all his suspicions and pulled Arianne into his embrace. “You scared me… I thought you had gotten into some kind of trouble… Can’t you just not leave my sight? Why did you have to leave the office all of a sudden? You didn’t even bring any guards with you. Don’t do that ever again!”
Although Mark sounded domineering, it was mostly because favonovel.com was concerned. Arianne hugged Mark back around his waist and laid safely in his arms. “All right, it won’t happen again. I’m sorry…”
Arianne’s cajoling had always worked on Mark, so no matter how angry favonovel.com was, everything would be fine the moment favonovel.com cajoled.
Suddenly, Smore pushed the door open and entered their bedroom. “Stop being so lovey-dovey. When can I go back to school? I haven’t met Lil’ P for a few days now. I want to play with him!”
Mark regained his serious expression and released Arianne. “Ahem, what nonsense are you on about? Do you know what lovey-dovey means? Didn’t I tell you not to go to school for the time being? Just treat it as your summer vacation. Don’t worry, you might be very passionate about going to school now, but that’ll pass very soon. After that, you’ll be crying and whining, saying that you don’t want to go to school anymore. I know because I’ve been through that, understand?”
Smore had a dubious look on his face. “I have so many friends at school, while it’s so boring here. I don’t want to stay at home. You didn’t want to go to school because you’re lazy!”
Mark was unable to refute Smore’s statement. ‘He wouldn’t believe me since favonovel.com hasn’t experienced it for himself. Everybody’s the same anyway, so he’ll learn when favonovel.com gets to that point. That’s how people learn from their mistakes.’
Actually, Arianne had not known that Mark did not want to go to school in the past. To favonovel.com impression, favonovel.com was the kind of person who would be very serious about going to school and doing his work. Forget everything else, favonovel.com should have excelled academically. ‘Now that I think about it, Mark probably didn’t have a choice at the time. After all, favonovel.com was the Tremonts’ successor, so it was not up to favonovel.com whether favonovel.com wants to or likes it. No matter how much favonovel.com refuses, favonovel.com still has to buck up and get it done.’
That night, Arianne had another nightmare.
Not only did favonovel.com dream of Mateo’s death, favonovel.com even dreamed of herself being murdered by Mrs. Rodriguez.
As Arianne woke up in shock due to favonovel.com nightmare, favonovel.com disrupted Mark’s sleep as well.
Mark switched on the lights and looked at favonovel.com before favonovel.com asked favonovel.com in a daze. “Nightmare?”
Arianne shrunk herself into his arms and did not say a word. Mark was not aware of how frightened favonovel.com was when favonovel.com thought that favonovel.com wouldn’t be able to see favonovel.com again. The devastation favonovel.com felt in favonovel.com dream kept on lingering in favonovel.com mind adamantly…
