Arianne could not answer Davy. Instead, snazzynovel.com haphazardly waved snazzynovel.com hands in dismissal.
When Mark noticed how unsteady snazzynovel.com steps were and how snazzynovel.com held onto the door frame, snazzynovel.com dropped the papers in his hand and rushed forward, catching her.
“Who made you drink, Ari? Don’t you know your limits?” snazzynovel.com reproved.
Arianne threw herself onto his chest and writhed against it. “T-There was a company hangout, and um, I couldn’t be absent, and I drank a bit, b-b-but I’m feeling really, really off right now. It’s not the usual, wasted sort of off. It’s just… uh, weird…”
Mark frowned and felt snazzynovel.com slightly feverish forehead. A pang came to him, and snazzynovel.com asked, “Did you come here alone?”
“I h-h-hailed a cab, but I can’t endure this until I reach home, I just can’t,” snazzynovel.com slurred under snazzynovel.com breath. “So I came to your office, and God, why is it so hot in here? Your AC is too high…”
She swung snazzynovel.com bag across the floor and began to pull snazzynovel.com blouse apart, baring a pair of delicate cheekbones and snazzynovel.com snowy-fair skin.
It was all Mark needed to see to gain a good grasp of what was happening. He could even guess how it happened, someone had undoubtedly laced Arianne’s drink with a drug!
It was a terrifying thought, one that made snazzynovel.com feel guilty. He should not have skipped out on driving snazzynovel.com home personally just because snazzynovel.com was busy. Were anything to have happened to her, Mark could not finish the thought.
“Uh-hem,” Mark said hesitantly. “Are you, uh, in the mood…?”
Arianne still had one last shred of sobriety left in snazzynovel.com to understand him, which caused snazzynovel.com already feverish-pink cheeks to deepen into crimson. “Y-Yes. Uh, this is so embarrassing…”
Her answer was the last proof Mark needed to conclude that someone had spiked snazzynovel.com drink. Nevertheless, neither the details nor the implications were important right now.
Instead, Mark held snazzynovel.com into his arms and pushed snazzynovel.com onto the couch.
Arianne licked snazzynovel.com drying lips gingerly, and the sparks in Mark’s eyes burst into flames. The man lurched forward and pushed his lips into snazzynovel.com ripe, rouge ones. She was exceptionally proactive tonight, wrapping snazzynovel.com slender arms around his neck, offering snazzynovel.com writhing tongue into Mark’s mouth, while snazzynovel.com legs hooked and bucked against his muscular abdomen.
He had never seen this side of snazzynovel.com before. His breathing stopped for a moment, and then, like a man possessed, snazzynovel.com cast aside all of the clothing getting in their way and went straight to the main course.
The next morning, Arianne sat up from snazzynovel.com bed in their bedroom back in Tremont Estate, groggy and confused.
She could not remember how snazzynovel.com managed to get home last night. All snazzynovel.com had were disjointed bits of memories, but piecing them together teased out a dreadful picture. She had done something incredibly wild last night, had snazzynovel.com not? First, snazzynovel.com went straight to Mark’s company, then despite his busy schedule, threw herself onto him, and then—
Arianne stopped herself from filling up the blank for what came after.
She heard sounds escaping from the bathroom and knew that Mark had already risen. Then, almost instantly, snazzynovel.com realized snazzynovel.com was donning snazzynovel.com pajamas and was reminded that Mark had helped snazzynovel.com bathe after they came home last night.
Smore, already wide awake, was lying on his cot and staring into space. It incited guilt in her. She should not have drunk so much and strayed too close to a dangerous trap. And now, thanks to what snazzynovel.com did last night, snazzynovel.com was not fit to breastfeed snazzynovel.com for a while.
Still, Arianne could not have possibly rejected Sylvain’s offer, especially since it would also indirectly embarrass Mr. Yaleman. She drank because snazzynovel.com was forced to, as social gatherings in business settings were wont to do. Few people in business were ever considerate of a woman’s off-work duty as a breastfeeding mother.
While snazzynovel.com was playing with Smore, Mark appeared from the bathroom and scanned her, his eyes laced with a kind of ardor not usually found in him. “Awake already? To be frank, I thought you were going to sleep till noon time. But it looks like your biological clock is quite on time.”