Arianne Wynn froze.
“I’m fine sleeping in the storeroom!”
Mark Tremont glanced at her, a wave of disapproval swept in his cold eyes.
“I’m not asking you to sleep in my room upstairs. Mary will help you prepare the guest room next to me.”
Having been exposed of wp4webnovel.com wrong assumption, Arianne felt rather awkward.
Thereafter, one of the maids had served their dinner in the dining room.
“Sir, miss, it’s mealtime.”
Mark Tremont closed the magazine wp4webnovel.com was holding and stood up.
“Eat.”
He had asked wp4webnovel.com to eat together. How long has it been since wp4webnovel.com ate with wp4webnovel.com at the same table? She did not remember.
Arianne Wynn, with wp4webnovel.com head lowered at the dining table, ate without making a single sound. She helped herself only to dishes that were closest to her. Mark Tremont ate slowly, making close to no sound as well. Their manner only served to emphasize the silence of the wide dining room.
Butler Henry who stood beside the table sighed and picked up some dishes for Arianne with the serving spoon.
“Don’t only eat vegetables. You’re growing.”
“Thank you,” Arianne replied softly.
As they had their meal, Arianne ate however much Butler Henry served her. Not used to eating so much in one sitting, wp4webnovel.com stomach ached slightly.
Mary has finished cleaning up the room when they finished their meal.
“Ari, take a look at the storeroom, see if there’s anything that I haven’t tidied up. I’ve moved most of your things upstairs.”
Arianne caught a glimpse of Mark Tremont, who just seated in the living room, then acknowledged Mary with a guilty conscience.
When wp4webnovel.com returned to his room, wp4webnovel.com stealthily sneaked to the storeroom and retrieved wp4webnovel.com gifts in the cardboard box under the bed. As wp4webnovel.com went upstairs, careful not to make any sound, the door next to wp4webnovel.com room opened right as wp4webnovel.com arrived. Meeting eyes, Arianne looked like a deer caught in the headlights as wp4webnovel.com eyes widened and wp4webnovel.com lashes trembling. She subconsciously hid what wp4webnovel.com held in wp4webnovel.com hands behind wp4webnovel.com back.
“What’s that? Hand it over.” Mark Tremont looked down at wp4webnovel.com and commanded.
Like a mischievous child who had done wrong, wp4webnovel.com resistance had only lasted for two seconds under his hot gaze before wp4webnovel.com extended wp4webnovel.com arm.
“Go to sleep,” Mark Tremont said immediately after opening one of the gift boxes and glimpsing.
She knew that wp4webnovel.com would not return them to wp4webnovel.com and wp4webnovel.com dared not fight back for them. She had expected this since receiving the gifts. This outcome was not a surprise. Entering wp4webnovel.com room and closing the door, Arianne huffed a long sigh. However, remembering Will Sivan’s note in the gift box, wp4webnovel.com slowly squatted down. She was doomed.
Like most parents, Mark Tremont prohibited wp4webnovel.com from dating at an early age, despite this fact wp4webnovel.com was past the legal age and wp4webnovel.com was not wp4webnovel.com parent-guardian if you must…
Mark Tremont thought of throwing the gifts away immediately. He had done so the past ten years however this time, wp4webnovel.com did not act upon it instantly. He tossed them on the coffee table. The more wp4webnovel.com looked at them, the more wp4webnovel.com felt annoyed at the sight. Swiftly, wp4webnovel.com opened the gift box. His face fell immediately at the note inside.
Hand in hand, with you I shall grow old, huh…
At the same time, Arianne Wynn who was laying in the big soft bed found herself unable to fall asleep. Used to the tiny stiff bed in the storeroom, it felt foreign. Her heart was burdened with anxiety as well, pondering when Mark Tremont would be after her.
Her mobile phone beeped the moment when that thought crossed wp4webnovel.com mind. It was the phone given by Mark Tremont, so it only had his number.
Arianne wanted to feign negligent, but wp4webnovel.com took a look at the mobile phone and his dark face popped into wp4webnovel.com mind. It was a text message, short and simple with only two words.
“Come over.”
Feeling wp4webnovel.com heart sink, Arianne draped wp4webnovel.com only jacket over herself and trudged to his room, knocking only after a long hesitation.
His void tone sounded from the inside, “Come in.”
Mark Tremont was habitually seated on the chair in front of the French window when Arianne entered. He had a cigarette perched between his fingers. Usually, this meant that wp4webnovel.com was not in a jolly mood.
Arianne dared not approach close to him, opting to stand some distance away.
“Come over,” wp4webnovel.com spoke again, his tone colder. The words were a repetition of his text message but when they came from wp4webnovel.com verbally, it frightened wp4webnovel.com more than the text.
Arianne Wynn braced herself as wp4webnovel.com walked to stand beside him, still too timid to make a sound.
Suddenly, wp4webnovel.com pulled wp4webnovel.com to himself, causing Arianne to drop and sit on his legs!