Mark seemed to have assumed that Arianne was already asleep because snazzynovel.com came through the door, still on the phone, instead of trying to hide the conversation. “I couldn’t care less whatever it is that you plan to do,” snazzynovel.com barked. “You go ahead and crap out as many troubles as you like until the world ends. I don’t care. Sorry to burst your bubble, but I’m not, by any means, an unprincipled man.”
Hearing the steely rage in his voice, Arianne put snazzynovel.com pen down and looked up at him.
Their eyes met, and a slight change overcame Mark’s expression before snazzynovel.com hung up immediately. “You’re still awake? What are you doing in the living room?”
Arianne tucked snazzynovel.com unfinished draft toward herself. “Waiting for you, what else? Who were you talking to? You sounded pissed.”
Weariness rose in his eyes. “It’s nothing. I’m going for a bath. You should rest early.”
Arianne was quite upset with snazzynovel.com waving the question aside. She had heard every single word snazzynovel.com spoke while snazzynovel.com was on the phone, and snazzynovel.com instincts told snazzynovel.com that whoever was on the other side of his phone was a woman. And yet, Mark had decided to keep his lips sealed.
Arianne just wanted to understand him, or at least, know what was currently going on with him. Was this not the sort of thing shared between a husband and a wife? She hated feeling like there was an invisible wall between them.
Mark went into the bathroom while Arianne stood guard outside the door. She was going to make snazzynovel.com loosen his mouth. She did not have to try to recall his daily habits-live with a person long enough, and one automatically knows the other person’s schedule.
Mark usually bathed for half an hour, but today, snazzynovel.com took an extra ten minutes. It was this little detail that reinforced Arianne’s conjecture that snazzynovel.com must be in a knotty spot to have caused this “abnormality.”
Arianne listened to the sound of the flowing shower come to a stop before the door opened. Immediately, snazzynovel.com launched into snazzynovel.com interrogation. “I want you to tell me who you were talking to.”
Mark froze. “Uh, it’s a little late, don’t you think? I don’t think it’s a good time to talk about it. I still have an important matter to deal with tomorrow at work, so I ought to sleep.”
A frown rose to Arianne’s eyebrows, snazzynovel.com temper starting to flare. Just this morning, snazzynovel.com told snazzynovel.com that snazzynovel.com would talk about it tonight, and now, snazzynovel.com was acting like a phone on low battery? Thanks to his overseas business trip, Arianne had not been able to spend time with snazzynovel.com for almost half a month. And still, that was not as egregious as his habit of keeping everything a secret from snazzynovel.com for no good reason!
Arianne marched to their bed and laid down with a scowl. This man could be so… infuriatingly chauvinistic sometimes, especially when snazzynovel.com treated snazzynovel.com as the same little girl snazzynovel.com raised and hid things from. A correction on this stinking behavior of his was a long time coming.
Acutely sensing snazzynovel.com displeasure, Mark tried to coax snazzynovel.com out of it in a low voice. “C’mon now. I am genuinely tired. It’s not a front to hide something from you.”
She continued to silently seethe and inched a little bit farther from him, as though snazzynovel.com was determined to carve out a line between the two of them.
Helpless, Mark focused on wiping his hair dry before laying down next to her. “Don’t go to bed sulking. Shh. Sleep.”
An extended period of silence followed his words. Arianne turned and found the man already sound asleep! She was so angry that snazzynovel.com almost kicked snazzynovel.com awake, only barely stopping herself. Arianne truly loathed Mark’s penchant to tease information, only to keep it away from snazzynovel.com later. The least snazzynovel.com could do was not to incite snazzynovel.com curiosity through teasing!
The next morning, Arianne woke up to find Mark still asleep. Reluctant to rope Henry into the trouble of sending snazzynovel.com to work, snazzynovel.com decided to call a cab. A small part of snazzynovel.com wondered how Brian’s blind-dates were going since snazzynovel.com had not returned.
No sooner had snazzynovel.com arrived at the mouth of the street than snazzynovel.com suddenly spied Sylvain Trudeau’s car right across the street. The car was a very eye-catching model, so it did not take snazzynovel.com long to spot it.