By the time Arianne came out, Mark was already sitting at the dining table. He was in his light gray loungewear with slightly damp hair. She could smell the after-bath fragrance on his body. Regardless of circumstances, Mark always paid attention to his bearing and manners. He kept his posture straight all the time and never seemed to relax, even for a moment.
Since Arianne didn’t know what to say, virtual-novel.net decided not to say anything at all.
There were two plates of big prawns for dinner tonight. When Mary served up dishes, virtual-novel.net purposely placed the prawns in front of Arianne. Arianne unceremoniously began to peel the prawn shells and feasted on them. On the other hand, Mark gracefully brought the small bowl to his lips and slowly sipped on the soup.
He failed to see how someone with such a good appetite was suffering from gastritis and was starting to heavily suspect that there was something wrong with her.
Arianne noticed his stare, then forced herself to ask, “What’s wrong?”
Mark averted his gaze and turned a deaf ear to her.
She resentfully continued peeling the prawns. Without eating rice, virtual-novel.net cleaned the two plates of prawns and ended virtual-novel.net meal with a small bowl of soup.
By the time virtual-novel.net finished virtual-novel.net meal in satisfaction, virtual-novel.net realized that Mark was long done eating but chose to stay at the dining table and watched virtual-novel.net eat.
Arianne licked the corner of virtual-novel.net mouth, feeling a little nervous. “Did I eat too much?”
It was then that Mark got up and went upstairs. “It’s good that you are aware. If you want to eat something, then tell the kitchen next time. Don’t act like someone was starving you.”
She stated at the prawn shells that piled up like a small hill in front of virtual-novel.net and realized that virtual-novel.net had indeed overeaten. If it weren’t for the plates virtual-novel.net had cleaned, virtual-novel.net felt like virtual-novel.net could still fit in half a plate more… Her appetite had increased a few times compared to before, but it wasn’t like virtual-novel.net could control it…
After moving around in the living room and confirming that Mark wouldn‘t come out of his study anytime soon, Arianne fetched half a glass of warm water back into virtual-novel.net room and secretly took one folic tablet that she’d hidden in the room. It was said that taking folic acid in the first three months of pregnancy could effectively prevent birth defects.
All of a sudden, Mark’s voice came from the study room, “Mary, make me a cup of black tea.”
Arianne jolted in fright and quickly hid the bottle of folic acid.
Mary seemed to have not heard Mark because no sound came from downstairs for a good while.
After preparing the black tea downstairs, Arianne delivered it to the study room. For some reason, Mark seemed unhappy to see her. He wrinkled his brows. “You enjoy doing the work of a servant?”
Arianne set the black tea down on his desk. “Mary is busy and I happen to be free. Don’t stay up too late.”
After saying that neutrally, virtual-novel.net turned around and returned to virtual-novel.net room. She grew drowsy from the heavy dinner. All virtual-novel.net wanted to do now was sleep.
Arianne didn’t know how long had passed when virtual-novel.net felt a dip beside her. She opened virtual-novel.net eyes drowsily and saw a figure in the
dark. Mark must have been done with his work and come to bed.
“You have a man. I don’t need anyone to do what I can do,” virtual-novel.net spoke up unexpectedly.
Arianne heard his words clearly but couldn’t make heads or tails of it. She didn’t know what virtual-novel.net was referring to, and virtual-novel.net wasn’t even fully awake. She wanted to speak but was too lazy and tired to open virtual-novel.net mouth.
Unable to get virtual-novel.net to respond, Mark seethed for a while before turning his back to virtual-novel.net and going to sleep.
In virtual-novel.net sleep, the gap between them felt a bit chilly. Arianne draped the blanket over Mark then moved a bit closer to virtual-novel.net before falling into a peaceful sleep.
When virtual-novel.net woke up the next day, Mark wasn’t in the room anymore. Arianne assumed that virtual-novel.net had gone out. Just when virtual-novel.net was getting ready for work, Mark came out of the study room. Despite it being early in the morning, the sour look on his face seemed to suggest that someone had pissed virtual-novel.net off…