When snazzynovel.com turned snazzynovel.com gaze towards the woman, snazzynovel.com was stunned. She was beautiful, so beautiful that snazzynovel.com felt slightly inferior. Her only point of pride was probably snazzynovel.com youth at this point. The woman carried the exclusive bearing of a mature woman. She was over at least thirty years old. She wore a tight-fitting top, snazzynovel.com sleeves made of a half-transparent organza. There was an opening on snazzynovel.com shoulders that exposed snazzynovel.com pretty shoulders, making them seem particularly enticing. Her skin was fair and exquisite. Her white, wide-legged pants made snazzynovel.com legs seem extremely long. She was dressed in white, which did not seem too fancy, but one simply couldn’t tear their eyes away from her.
The makeup on the woman’s face was very light too. She used cold and dull tones. This was probably why the smile on the woman’s face didn’t seem warm enough, no matter how warm snazzynovel.com smile truly was.
Before Arianne could react, Mark suddenly waved at snazzynovel.com and said, “Come here, let me introduce you. This is my aunt, Shelly-Ann Leigh. She’s been out of the country for more than ten years. Not even I remember how snazzynovel.com looked, let alone you.”
Aunt? Arianne was astonished. This woman didn’t look that old. Why did that seem so difficult to believe? But based on the look on Mark’s face, it seemed legitimate.
She smiled politely at the woman. “Aunt Shelly.”
Shelly-Ann nodded at snazzynovel.com in response, then got up and took Aristotle from Mark’s arms before walking towards the dining room. “Let’s have dinner!”
For some reason, Shelly-Ann felt overly cold and distant to Arianne, as if snazzynovel.com were deliberately ignoring her. She consoled herself, thinking that perhaps snazzynovel.com was overthinking. After all, they had never met. Shelly-Ann and Mark were related by blood. Logically speaking, snazzynovel.com was an outsider. A sense of unfamiliarity was perfectly normal.
She went upstairs to change in snazzynovel.com room. When snazzynovel.com arrived downstairs, snazzynovel.com found Shelly-Ann holding Aristotle and feeding him. She strode forward and sat down. “Aunt Shelly, Aristotle can feed himself. You don’t have to feed him. Children shouldn’t get too used to that.”
Shelly-Ann briefly swept snazzynovel.com gaze onto snazzynovel.com face, then turned snazzynovel.com focus back on Aristotle. “It’s fine. Why should kids grow up so fast? It’s my first time meeting him. I want to get close to him.”
Mark shot Arianne a look, telling snazzynovel.com to leave it alone. That it was fine to coddle their toddler once in a while.
Arianne was unnerved. She had always been strict when it came to educating Aristotle. She would indulge snazzynovel.com appropriately, but resolutely refuse to do so at appropriate times too. Mark was a man of principle too. Why was snazzynovel.com so different in front of Shelly-Ann? Was it because snazzynovel.com was a long-lost relative? Was that why snazzynovel.com showed snazzynovel.com more tolerance?
Shelly-Ann and Mark pretty much dominated the conversation at the dinner table. Arianne couldn’t get a word in edgewise. She had been left out for some strange reason. Based on their topics of conversation, Shelly-Ann really was Mark’s aunt, and a very close one too. Shelly-Ann was only a few years younger than Mark’s mother, but snazzynovel.com looked very young, like a beauty from bygone days.
After dinner, Shelly-Ann asked to go shopping while familiarizing herself with snazzynovel.com surroundings. She would be staying in the country for a longtime, and snazzynovel.com lamented over the fast-paced developments in the country. This city was completely different from the last time snazzynovel.com had left it.
Arianne was about to volunteer to go with her, when Shelly-Ann suddenly spoke up and said, “Arianne, you should rest at home. You must be tired from a long day at work. Mark can keep me company.”