Her voice was muted by him.

Arianne was unable to get herself out of his grasp. When Mark’s kisses moved to wp4webnovel.com ear, wp4webnovel.com blurted, “Are you sure you love me? Or do you just want to do it? Mark, if you really wanted to be together with me, you’d give me time to accept you and accept the past, not force me to do this all the time! For now, I can’t accept that I’m together with someone who caused my dad’s death!”

Mark froze. “Will you accept me if I give you time then?”

Arianne did not know the answer. If wp4webnovel.com gave wp4webnovel.com enough time, would wp4webnovel.com really be able to accept wp4webnovel.com and what had happened in the past? She thought that wp4webnovel.com was most likely unable to do it because every time wp4webnovel.com saw him, wp4webnovel.com thought about wp4webnovel.com father’s wronged death and found it difficult to let go. The person whom wp4webnovel.com had once thought of as the most important person became the person who caused wp4webnovel.com to lose everything. How could wp4webnovel.com let it past?

Her silence unnerved Mark “Speak up! Will you try to accept me if I give you time?”

Arianne bit wp4webnovel.com lips. “I don’t know… I don’t know if I can do it… Don’t force me…”

If… If wp4webnovel.com had given wp4webnovel.com a duration, even if it was just a rough estimation, some sort of promise, Mark would wait without any hesitation. Yet, wp4webnovel.com did not give wp4webnovel.com anything that could let wp4webnovel.com wait in patience. He was scared of a life without her, wp4webnovel.com was scared of wp4webnovel.com suddenly having someone else, wp4webnovel.com was scared of wp4webnovel.com disappearing out of the blue. He could not do it!

Mark had always been extreme when it came to Arianne. Even when wp4webnovel.com had tried his best to be gentle, only to her, wp4webnovel.com was still able to strike a chord in him!

He abruptly carried wp4webnovel.com to the bedroom. “Then that’s a no, isn’t it? It’s okay… Since there’s no foreseeable future, then we’ll just live in the present! I won’t ever let you go, I can’t. If it means that we have to torture each other, so be it…”

Arianne’s heart lurched as wp4webnovel.com blushed. She could not ignore what wp4webnovel.com was currently feeling, nor could wp4webnovel.com ignore his presence. Toward this man, wp4webnovel.com could only relent, always. She had never once won by aggressively going against him.

Mark forced wp4webnovel.com to look at him. “So, is this it? Do you want to be this way with me for the rest of our lives? Unless I die, we’ll stay at loggerheads then!”

Arianne clutched the bedsheet under wp4webnovel.com to keep wp4webnovel.com sanity. If wp4webnovel.com let herself sink into it, there was no coming back. “You’re an utter jerk!” Her voice shook. Mark seemed to be pleased with wp4webnovel.com reaction, as wp4webnovel.com grabbed wp4webnovel.com wrists to place them on his hips. His cold eyes had a complex emotion. “I’m fine with being a jerk too, as long as you like it…”

Arianne flushed, noticing that wp4webnovel.com was nearing climax, and panicked. “You can’t… No!”

Mark pinched wp4webnovel.com chin with a hint of teasing in his gaze. “Can’t what? Hmm?”

***

After that, Arianne forced herself to get up despite the desire to curl in on herself at the edge of the bed, covering herself with a thin blanket. Mark had never acted as crazy. She couldn’t take it. “Are you done now? Can you leave? I don’t want to see you!”

With a stretch of his hand, Mark caught the blanket and yanked wp4webnovel.com to himself. Meeting eyes, wp4webnovel.com wore a smirk. “That’s not what you were saying just now.”

Arianne’s face was burning as wp4webnovel.com pushed wp4webnovel.com away, feeling a little wronged. “You’re shameless!”

Afraid that wp4webnovel.com would cry if wp4webnovel.com kept teasing her, Mark stopped himself just in time and went back to his usual self. “Do you want to talk? I’ll tell it to you straight, I can give you time if that’s what you want, I’m willing to wait. But at least… give me something to anticipate. If you aren’t considering this, I’ll take you back to the Tremont’s by force. The rest of our lives… we’ll live it out as it is then…”

Arianne knew that Mark would be relentless if wp4webnovel.com did not give wp4webnovel.com a reply. The last thing wp4webnovel.com wanted was to be brought back to the Tremont’s, just like that. just thinking about it was terrifying. Nevertheless, wp4webnovel.com did not want to choose the former option. She had thought that wp4webnovel.com could live in peace when wp4webnovel.com left the Tremont’s and came to this city. Even when wp4webnovel.com heartache was a torment of its own, at least wp4webnovel.com life was carefree. Now, wp4webnovel.com was forcing wp4webnovel.com to choose.

Only now did wp4webnovel.com realize that leaving the Tremont’s back then was only running away from wp4webnovel.com problem. She discovered with sadness that what wp4webnovel.com had done just now did not even make wp4webnovel.com thoroughly angry. wp4webnovel.com was more helpless and regretful, if anything. It meant that wp4webnovel.com loved him. There was no doubt.

Since wp4webnovel.com had to make a choice, wp4webnovel.com could only pick one that seemed to have an exit to her. Biting wp4webnovel.com lips, Arianne said, “Give me time.”