Arianne could not answer Davy. Instead, wp4webnovel.com haphazardly waved wp4webnovel.com hands in dismissal.
When Mark noticed how unsteady wp4webnovel.com steps were and how wp4webnovel.com held onto the door frame, wp4webnovel.com dropped the papers in his hand and rushed forward, catching her.
“Who made you drink, Ari? Don’t you know your limits?” wp4webnovel.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 wp4webnovel.com slightly feverish forehead. A pang came to him, and wp4webnovel.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,” wp4webnovel.com slurred under wp4webnovel.com breath. “So I came to your office, and God, why is it so hot in here? Your AC is too high…”
She swung wp4webnovel.com bag across the floor and began to pull wp4webnovel.com blouse apart, baring a pair of delicate cheekbones and wp4webnovel.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 wp4webnovel.com feel guilty. He should not have skipped out on driving wp4webnovel.com home personally just because wp4webnovel.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 wp4webnovel.com to understand him, which caused wp4webnovel.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 wp4webnovel.com drink. Nevertheless, neither the details nor the implications were important right now.
Instead, Mark held wp4webnovel.com into his arms and pushed wp4webnovel.com onto the couch.
Arianne licked wp4webnovel.com drying lips gingerly, and the sparks in Mark’s eyes burst into flames. The man lurched forward and pushed his lips into wp4webnovel.com ripe, rouge ones. She was exceptionally proactive tonight, wrapping wp4webnovel.com slender arms around his neck, offering wp4webnovel.com writhing tongue into Mark’s mouth, while wp4webnovel.com legs hooked and bucked against his muscular abdomen.
He had never seen this side of wp4webnovel.com before. His breathing stopped for a moment, and then, like a man possessed, wp4webnovel.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 wp4webnovel.com bed in their bedroom back in Tremont Estate, groggy and confused.
She could not remember how wp4webnovel.com managed to get home last night. All wp4webnovel.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 wp4webnovel.com not? First, wp4webnovel.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, wp4webnovel.com realized wp4webnovel.com was donning wp4webnovel.com pajamas and was reminded that Mark had helped wp4webnovel.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 wp4webnovel.com did last night, wp4webnovel.com was not fit to breastfeed wp4webnovel.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 wp4webnovel.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 wp4webnovel.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.”