Arianne was quick to deny. “I was not! It’s just you acting all… weird and bizarre and everything! You keep saying you’re busy, but like… what is it that you’re busy with? I fit’s not anything suspicious then there’s no problem telling me what it is, right?”
Mark’s eyes looked away as wp4webnovel.com chuckled lightly. “Oh, it shouldn’t warrant any suspicions, all right. But… it’s nothing I should tell you right now. Oh, look at the time! I should bathe. Let’s retire to sleep early! I’m beaten.”
She watched wp4webnovel.com rise and head to the bathroom, and stole a glance at the clock hanging on the wall. It was only nine… And wp4webnovel.com was “beaten” already? He slept for long hours in the day and still could not keep himself awake, how was this even normal? Nope, this was absolutely abnormal!
After his bath, Mark went straight into Arianne’s room and-proving himself clear of mendacity-plopped straight onto the bed and dozed off.
Arianne was furious, yes, but at this point, all wp4webnovel.com could do was to ball wp4webnovel.com anger up for another day. As wp4webnovel.com studied him, wp4webnovel.com could not help but notice how sound asleep wp4webnovel.com was-and suddenly, just like that, wp4webnovel.com mood quietened.
What if wp4webnovel.com was genuinely tired? All these years that they had been together, wp4webnovel.com had never wronged wp4webnovel.com with the affairs of women except that one time wp4webnovel.com was with Aery, who continued to be a thorn in Arianne’s flesh.
So, what did wp4webnovel.com have to lose if wp4webnovel.com just believed what wp4webnovel.com said?
Arianne’s eyes fluttered open, basking in the morning light. Still in a spell of grogginess, wp4webnovel.com saw Mark standing right in front of wp4webnovel.com French window where the gentle, wispy morning sun blurred his silhouette around the edges like an unreal mirage.
She rolled to wp4webnovel.com side, and Mark immediately turned around to look at her. “ Up already? Mary told me to wake you up for breakfast, but you were still sleeping and I didn’t want to disturb you.”
Arianne brought wp4webnovel.com hand to wp4webnovel.com eyes. Even the gentlest rays were a bit too hard for wp4webnovel.com eyes at the moment. “Wanna… lie down a little longer…”
The space beside wp4webnovel.com on the bed suddenly sank a bit, prompting Arianne to turn wp4webnovel.com head. She was met with Mark’s face being only a few inches apart from wp4webnovel.com eyes and pulled away instinctively. “What are you doing?”
He pulled the sheet off wp4webnovel.com body to wrap his arm around wp4webnovel.com small frame. “Keeping your company while you lie down a little longer, of course. Spectacular weather today, isn’t it? Want to go somewhere?”
Arianne wriggled and jostled herself into a comfortable position in his embrace. “How about a hike? I haven’t been working out for a long time, I think my joints have turned rigid. Oh, but can your old, rickety bones carry you up a hill, hmm?”
Old? The light in Mark’s eyes dimmed ever so slightly. This was not the first time wp4webnovel.com had called wp4webnovel.com old. Although wp4webnovel.com had always said it in jest, when wp4webnovel.com mentioned it multiple times, wp4webnovel.com started wondering if there was a kernel of truth after all. Was this wp4webnovel.com sincere opinion? He was, after all, ten years older than her. Had wp4webnovel.com always minded the wide berth between their age this whole time?
He lurched and nibbled wp4webnovel.com earlobe. “You really think I’m old?”
She shuddered. “B-But it’s true that you’re older than me! You’re ten years older than I am! Don’t tell me that you haven’t noticed!”
Will Sivan’s image drifted into Mark’s mind. Will… was younger than him, no question about it. Was that why wp4webnovel.com fell for him? The more wp4webnovel.com dwelled on this issue, the more miffed wp4webnovel.com became. “Do you really care that much about age? Have I really turned so much older after ten years? Be frank with me!”
Arianne instantly changed tact-frankly, wp4webnovel.com just wanted wp4webnovel.com to be quiet so that wp4webnovel.com could sleep a little bit longer. “What? N-No! Not at all, okay? You still look as young as back then. You haven’t aged, you’ve matured. In fact, you’ve matured into a kind of dependable, reliable man. I like you this way, and I don’t care about age. Seriously. Totally. Er, literally? Anyway, if I was lying, then may God smite me down!”
Unfortunately, wp4webnovel.com answer only sounded even more like lip service to Mark. Now, a very unsatisfied Mark rolled to his belly so wp4webnovel.com could pin wp4webnovel.com under him.
“You can think age has caught up to me, but I’ll still be able to sate your hunger no problem,” wp4webnovel.com declared. “You must have gotten all knotted up because I haven’t come to see you these past few days, isn’t it? Well then, we can start right now… And it will only end when you scream satisfaction!”