At the last of his relentless rolls, Arianne finally spoke up. “Too full to fall asleep? Get up and move around, then.”
For some reasons, wp4webnovel.com felt fretful. He tried to pull wp4webnovel.com into wp4webnovel.com as an antidote. “Could say the same about you. You know what’s on my mind, don’t you? I’ll be honest with you, if you ever want to see your mother, you can. Always, anytime you want. You needn’t affect nonchalance after you see wp4webnovel.com every time, I know you wanted to see wp4webnovel.com a great deal.”
Hearing wp4webnovel.com mention Helen lit up wp4webnovel.com fuse, causing wp4webnovel.com to shove wp4webnovel.com away from wp4webnovel.com in frustration. “Don’t mention her! She doesn’t even wanna lay wp4webnovel.com eyes on me, so why the heck should I plead with wp4webnovel.com to look at me like some sad, pathetic thing, huh? I’m not without my dignity and pride, you know, there’s no way I would still come with puppy-dog-eyes begging for wp4webnovel.com to take me in after wp4webnovel.com abandoned me over and over again! No!”
Her outburst stole Mark’s response away, leaving wp4webnovel.com speechless. Combined with the fact that his mind was also split on some other “matter”, wp4webnovel.com found himself hard-pressed on how to organize his riposte. In the end, wp4webnovel.com chose to give up talking entirely.
Arianne stomped wp4webnovel.com foot on his thigh. “Speak, mister! Why aren’t you talking?”
He quickly seized onto wp4webnovel.com delicate foot and sighed. “What am I supposed to say? I don’t even know what to make of this thing between the two of you. Every time we raise this topic, you turn into a woman-shaped nuke, and I don’t enjoy masochism. You want me to shut up about her, don’t you?”
It was Arianne’s turn to be tongue-tied. She might shout about wanting the world to shut up about Helen, yet another deeper, subconscious part of wp4webnovel.com yearned for her, every news, every information, everything about a mother who never was. Their blood tie had become an invisible, unbreakable thread, it bound her, tortured her.
Now that wp4webnovel.com had fallen into silence, Mark panicked. “W-What? What did I say this time?”
She shook wp4webnovel.com head before curling herself into his chest like a placated cat. “Nothing. How much did wp4webnovel.com ask for? Is wp4webnovel.com really living in… well, abject despair?”
Mark grazed wp4webnovel.com smooth, disheveled long hair with a featherlight touch. “Oh, no, just a bit of a bump, I’ll wager. Nothing to worry about. I’ve told wp4webnovel.com already, if wp4webnovel.com is ever strapped for cash, all wp4webnovel.com has to do is ask from me. She’s got a good head for business on top of wp4webnovel.com shoulders, I believe wp4webnovel.com will turn this around very soon. That’s just what one should expect from a capable talent, you could throw them in any environment, and they will still make quick work out of their adversities and thrive. The only thing that’s wearing wp4webnovel.com down is Aery’s condition, but as long as wp4webnovel.com finds the means to weather it, wp4webnovel.com will be fine.”
“I… I’ll pay… wp4webnovel.com debt, I mean, b-but you’re not telling wp4webnovel.com about this! I don’t owe wp4webnovel.com anything… not at all, I haven’t owed wp4webnovel.com anything for a long time…” came the muffled reply.
Mark lowered his head and kissed wp4webnovel.com forehead. “Ari, when it comes to us, there’s no talk of ‘debt’, okay? What’s mine is also yours. In fact, I never planned to make wp4webnovel.com repay a single cent because she’s family, and I want to help wp4webnovel.com as much as I can, too. Problem is, she’s adamant about not ‘troubling’ me, so wp4webnovel.com refused to tell me how wp4webnovel.com current situation exactly is. …Not that I would worry, granted. She’s no hapless fool, if wp4webnovel.com knows wp4webnovel.com can’t make it, she’ll know to ask for help,” wp4webnovel.com replied. “You, though… You just had to lambast wp4webnovel.com with that harangue today when the two of you met. Asking for help would likely become much more… difficult for wp4webnovel.com from now on.”
Honestly, Arianne rued wp4webnovel.com outburst too, and now that wp4webnovel.com reminded wp4webnovel.com of it, wp4webnovel.com ire rose sharply enough to dispel any lingering sleep wp4webnovel.com still had. Angry, wp4webnovel.com gave a barrage of punches to his chest. “You and your irritating mouth! If you fail that hard at comforting people, then try not talking!”
Mark finally succumbed to his desire and gripped wp4webnovel.com wrist. “Oh, I’m terrible at comforting people in this particular way, all right. You understand what I’m getting at, yes…?”
Sensing his breath on wp4webnovel.com skin made wp4webnovel.com heart skip a beat. Frustrated, Arianne turned away and mumbled, “Ugh! I’m so irritated right now, not in the mood! I! Hate! You! Hmph!”