Mark mistook her confusion for hope. The anger in his eyes burned even more intensely. He clenched his hands into fists before silently unclenching them again. In the end, he left and slammed the door behind him.As his car drove away from Tremont Estate, Arianne sat on the cold floor with her back against the bedside. She hugged her legs and buried her face in her knees. Maybe that would take some of her loneliness away...Mary came back three days later. “Ari, why did sir choose to go on a business trip during New Years Eve? Didn’t you try persuading him to set aside work for a bit? You must be feeling lonely now that you’re left all alone.”Arianne sat on the sofa and didn’t reply to her. All of a sudden, her phone rang. It was a greeting message from Eric, and a holiday bonus sum attached along with it.Arianne didn’t accept the money. She only replied to him with a smiley face emoticon and attached her letter of resignation. She turned her gaze back to the magazine in her hand

Arianne got off the bed, enduring the discomfort she felt. She grabbed her clothes and headed to the bathroom to change. By the time she got out, Mark had already finished packing and was waiting at the door.His gaze sunk when he noticed her slightly unusual walk. His expression turned cold as well, and his thoughts were unfathomable.Arianne kept dozing off on the plane but was afraid of touching Mark if she fell asleep. She could tell he was in a bad mood. He had not confronted her over her unapproved trip to Ayashe.Upon his return to the Tremont Estate, Mark immediately went back to his bathroom to take a shower. “When did he arrive home?” Arianne softly asked Mary.Mary stared blankly at her. “Sir never came back at all. He just arrived today.”Arianne was feeling slightly annoyed. She shouldn’t have told Eric about her intentions for resignation. He must have leaked that piece of information. She hadn’t thought of this at the time. She thought, knowing her current relations

Arianne seemed blissfully unaware that she was being watched. She was surrounded by many gasps and compliments, and she felt as if her ears had developed calluses from the sheer amount of them. The bridal show was during the latter segment of the fashion show. She took twelve minutes to brace herself and waited for her design to appear on the runway. Although she wasn’t part of the manufacturing process, she was the “biological mother”.Minutes and seconds passed, and the show was nearly its end. She was beginning to feel skeptical; her design couldn’t possibly have been put in the finale, right? After all, she wasn’t a member of Mark Tremont’s company. However, if it wasn’t in the finale, did that mean that Mark was toying with her?Suddenly, the music changed from a rhythmic tempo to a melodious tune. A tall, slender and fair-skinned model dressed in white slowly strutted onto the runway. Arianne gasped. ‘That’s my design… It really is the finale piece!’The bridal gown was long a

By the time they finally returned to Tremont Estate, Arianne was pretty much half hanging onto Mark Tremont. Upon seeing this, Mary quickly prepared a hot towel and followed them upstairs. She couldn’t bother about so much when her heart ached. “How did this happen? Madam can’t hold her liquor…”Mark Tremont didn’t speak. Mary handed him the hot towel. “Sir, I’ll leave madam to you. I’ll go down now.”He nodded and carefully wiped Arienne’s face. She cooperatively lifted her head so that he could wipe it. “Wipe it clean… He doesn’t like dirty things… Hurry up!”Mark Tremont’s hands paused then his lips involuntarily curled into a smile.The moment only lasted for two seconds before Arienne quickly pushed him away. “That won’t do… I have to remove my makeup…” Fortunately, she still remembered that she had makeup on her.The drunk Arienne wouldn’t let him help, so he could only follow behind her and watch over her until she was done. The moment her legs gave way beneath her, Mark Tr

Helen was getting upset but she suppressed her anger. After all, years of self-cultivation as the wife to a rich man wouldn’t allow her to show her anger in public.Naturally, there was no way Arianne would beg Aery Kinsey. “Why would I beg you? My upbringing didn’t teach me to lower my head to someone who lacks manners. If your mother weren’t standing beside you, I would have thought that you never received any proper parenting.”Aery picked up the coffee on the table and tried to splash it on Arianne out of rage. Fortunately, Tiffany Lane was able to pull Arianne back in time. Even so, some of the slightly hot coffee still spilled on Tiffany’s clothes.Aery’s action offended Tiffany so much that she no longer cared that they were in a public place. She gave Aery a hard shove. “Why don’t you try doing that again?”Helen turned pale with fright and finally snapped. “Cut it out”Given her competitive nature, there was no way Aery would take Tiffany’s treatment lying down. A catfigh