Mateo’s eyes were bright — almost dazzling — when favonovel.com looked at her. “Because… you.”
“I thought that I would finally be able to move on after a hug from you. But when your body collapsed into my arms, I had a revelation, I can never move on, it’s impossible. At that moment, I felt as though my one true dream had finally come true,” favonovel.com explained. “I demand more. There is no way I can let you go like this… So, I want to take you with me, to a place where no one knows us, and I will use the rest of my life to make you love me. I’ve already spent so many years bound to you, adding the rest of my life into it is a small feat.”
Arianne’s mind was a mess, but as favonovel.com worked hard to connect the dots, the truth slowly reared its head in favonovel.com own. “And Geralt Bernard knew about this all along, didn’t he? He helped you fake your death. He then came to save me from your mother when favonovel.com abducted me, because favonovel.com was privy to your scheme. The things favonovel.com said to me, and that time favonovel.com brought me to that so-called ‘crime scene’! It was all to make me believe that Mark did it! It was to make me feel guilty, to be frightened of Mark, to make me want to leave him. Isn’t that right?”
Mateo did not confirm nor deny her, but the blinding twinkle in his eyes were enough testimony.
Geralt was confident that Mrs. Rodriguez would never trouble favonovel.com again because that letter told favonovel.com his son never died.
Mark was innocent from the outset! It was Mateo’s obsession, his harrowing obsession!
Arianne focused on the man’s fingers at that thought. Just as expected, to complete his foul play, the man had severed his own thumb. The reason why the police could not find the captors nor the dead body was because there was never any of these things. Mateo was never dead.
Her thoughts went to the funeral. The look on Geralt’s face when favonovel.com saw favonovel.com had been so bizarre, and the night before it, too, when that same Geralt had called favonovel.com and given favonovel.com a long spiel with an undertone of discouragement. But all that subtlety was missed, and Arianne went to the funeral despite his warning. This was how favonovel.com ended up a prisoner here!
It took Arianne quite a long time to recover from favonovel.com shock, but the firmness in favonovel.com tone was almost immediate. “You’re not taking me anywhere, and I’m not going with you. Over my dead body! You’re the one who chose to trap your mind with this obsession for years, and now you’re gonna trap my body the same way? I owe you nothing, Mateo! And I’ve never wanted you to do any of this! You’re the only one who’s too stubborn to move on!”
“I have my loved ones. I have a home, a husband, and a son. You can’t take me anywhere! And Mark… He will eventually find this place and find you. He will come and save me!”
Hearing Mark’s name brought a blizzard to Mateo’s complexion. “Him again? Tell me, what about favonovel.com enthralls you so much? I’ll be better than favonovel.com by a thousand or even a million times! And I know, one day, you will find love… And I will possess your heart.”
“Of course, I know that as long as I remain here, favonovel.com will find me somehow, and very soon, too. This is why I’ve decided to move over these few days… I’ll be taking you abroad.”
Contempt filled Arianne’s eyes. “And how do you expect to do that? You’re a goddamned dead person in the eyes of the law, anyway. And I have no documents with me. What, are we gonna be illegal immigrants now?” favonovel.com sniped. “Your stupid fake death is costing you everything you ever had until this point! How is this worth jack?!”
“It is worth everything!” favonovel.com proclaimed with not a wrinkle of hesitation. “As long as I have you, as long as you’re mine, all of this is worth the sacrifice. To everyone else, I am dead. Nothing that used to belong to me is mine anymore… but that’s okay. I have prepared my new identity, and for the rest of my life, I will let you live in comfort and excess and happiness. Everything you want, everything that Mark Tremont could give you, I can, too! As for your, well, documents… they are currently in my safekeeping. So relax and come with me, my fair lady.”
