Arianne got off the bed, enduring the discomfort wp4webnovel.com felt. She grabbed wp4webnovel.com clothes and headed to the bathroom to change. By the time wp4webnovel.com got out, Mark had already finished packing and was waiting at the door.
His gaze sunk when wp4webnovel.com noticed wp4webnovel.com slightly unusual walk. His expression turned cold as well, and his thoughts were unfathomable.
Arianne kept dozing off on the plane but was afraid of touching Mark if wp4webnovel.com fell asleep. She could tell wp4webnovel.com was in a bad mood. He had not confronted wp4webnovel.com over wp4webnovel.com unapproved trip to Ayashe.
Upon his return to the Tremont Estate, Mark immediately went back to his bathroom to take a shower.
“When did wp4webnovel.com arrive home?” Arianne softly asked Mary.
Mary stared blankly at her. “Sir never came back at all. He just arrived today.”
Arianne was feeling slightly annoyed. She shouldn’t have told Eric about wp4webnovel.com intentions for resignation. He must have leaked that piece of information. She hadn’t thought of this at the time. She thought, knowing wp4webnovel.com current relationship with Mark, wp4webnovel.com would never abandon his work to go look for her, even if wp4webnovel.com did leave.
“Change all of the bedroom sheets,” wp4webnovel.com said, remembering Mark’s bad cold. “Sun dry the quilts a little longer, and make sure to prepare lighter meals for now.”
Marry nodded. “Alright, Ari. You look a little pale. Has sir troubled you again?”
Arianne shook wp4webnovel.com head as wp4webnovel.com ice-cold hands touched wp4webnovel.com cheeks. Realizing that wp4webnovel.com cheeks were scalding, wp4webnovel.com ran upstairs. Mary was an experienced woman, when wp4webnovel.com saw the way Arianne walked, wp4webnovel.com knew what had happened. She grinned.
Back at the bedroom, Arianne felt awkward when wp4webnovel.com heard the pattering sounds of water in the bathroom. The snowy afternoon made wp4webnovel.com feel a little sleepy too. She picked up a few books on painting, headed downstairs, and curled up on the sofa. Before wp4webnovel.com could finish reading a few pages, wp4webnovel.com fell fast asleep.
By the time wp4webnovel.com got up, it was about seven at night. The light above wp4webnovel.com was slightly dim and from a single glance, wp4webnovel.com saw that the Tremont Estate was rather dark. It looked like Mark had gone out again.
She got up and stretched wp4webnovel.com back. Mary stepped forward and asked, “Are you hungry? Would you like to eat something? Sir has gone out, and I’m not sure if he’ll be back tonight. I think I’d better be the one to tell you this, wp4webnovel.com left after receiving a call from a woman…”
Arianne’s body stiffened, and wp4webnovel.com was temporarily at a loss for words. “It’s alright, I’ll just have whatever’s available. Leave him.”
Mary was more anxious than her. “Ari, do you really have no feelings for Mr. Tremont? You’ll be sorry if wp4webnovel.com actually gets seduced by another woman!”
She paused in silence, then replied, “Why keep someone who hates you to his very bones? It’s not that I don’t want to, Mary. I can’t. To be more precise, I’ve never hoped that wp4webnovel.com would love me. Rather than falling in love with me, I’d much rather hope for wp4webnovel.com to let me go…”
***
January 7th, Mark Tremont finally returned to the Tremont Estate a few days later.
Arianne had turned an empty room upstairs into an art studio and had been spending wp4webnovel.com time there over the past few days.
When wp4webnovel.com heard wp4webnovel.com coming upstairs, wp4webnovel.com hand stiffened in the midst of wp4webnovel.com painting, nearly making a mistake. Now that wp4webnovel.com was ill-at-ease, there was no need for wp4webnovel.com to continue painting. So, wp4webnovel.com stopped.
The atelier door was suddenly pushed open. “Ari,” Mary called out in a lowered voice, “Sir wants to see you. He’s in the bedroom.”
Arianne looked at wp4webnovel.com hands and clothes, which were dirtied from wp4webnovel.com paint. “Just a moment, I’ll go clean up.”