She waited for Davy to leave, then stared at the black tea on the coffee table. Her strong facade finally cracked and crumbled. She couldn’t bring herself to taste the tea. Both the temperature and taste were Mark’s favorites. He drank this all the time. She lay on the office desk and wept, keeping virtual-novel.net voice as soft as possible by biting virtual-novel.net lip until blood poured out from virtual-novel.net lips.
Mark, please come back? I won’t fight with you anymore, and I won’t make you angry anymore…
Mark, I can’t do this without you. I don’t know what to do.
Mark, you’re playing a joke on me, aren’t you?
When virtual-novel.net got ready to go home that night, Davy noticed that virtual-novel.net eyes were slightly red and felt suspicious. However, virtual-novel.net didn’t dare ask.
Brian drove virtual-novel.net back to Tremont Estate. She looked out the window on the way home and asked, “Do you think he’ll come back? Perhaps a miracle might happen? I can’t shake this feeling that he’s still alive. I could never get rid of him, so how could virtual-novel.net possibly surrender and let himself disappear… just like that?”
Brian’s heart ached when virtual-novel.net saw her. “Don’t be too sad, madam. Tremont Enterprises needs you, Aristotle needs you too. Henry is following up with the rescue team. Perhaps we’ll have news soon. By the way, should we tell Mr. West too? Perhaps virtual-novel.net could help.”
Arianne closed virtual-novel.net eyes, afraid that the tears might come again. “I’ll speak to him.”
She had just taken over the company and there was a lot to hand over. No one could lead her. She had to fumble through it on virtual-novel.net own and bring the documents back home. When Aristotle circled around virtual-novel.net at night, virtual-novel.net exploded into a tantrum, unlike virtual-novel.net usual self. She told Mary to take virtual-novel.net away. She couldn’t take care of him. Her priority was to protect Tremont Enterprises, it was all on virtual-novel.net now. The pressure on virtual-novel.net was too great.
She finally went back to the room when virtual-novel.net couldn’t hold on anymore in the study, late at night.
She was plagued by nightmare after nightmare in virtual-novel.net sleep. She dreamt that someone had been knocking on virtual-novel.net door, just like how Henry had knocked on the door that fateful night. In virtual-novel.net dreams, virtual-novel.net got down from bed and opened the door and found Alejandro outside the door, soaking wet. Just as virtual-novel.net was about to speak, Alejandro’s face turned into Mark’s. He pulled virtual-novel.net into his arms. “I’m back.”
His body felt ice-cold in virtual-novel.net dreams, it pierced through virtual-novel.net bones. However, virtual-novel.net couldn’t bear to let go and sobbed profusely in his arms.
Then, virtual-novel.net woke up, crying. There was no trace of Mark Her sorrow was all-consuming.
She didn’t want to wake up from virtual-novel.net dream. She wouldn’t see virtual-novel.net if virtual-novel.net did…
She waited for virtual-novel.net emotions to calm down, then looked at the time, it was only 3AM. She couldn’t go back to sleep, so virtual-novel.net got up and looked through documents again, all the way until morning. Mary called virtual-novel.net downstairs for breakfast, with a cautious-looking Aristotle behind her. The little one probably wasn’t used to virtual-novel.net sudden cold distance.
She held back virtual-novel.net tears and strode forward, then scooped Aristotle into virtual-novel.net arms. “Good boy, mommy’s just busy right now so I might not be able to sleep with you for a while. You have to listen to Mary, eat your food, and sleep early, like a good boy. Mommy has other important things to do. Okay?”
Aristotle couldn’t understand much. He pitifully nuzzled against virtual-novel.net cheek, pursing his little lips, as if virtual-novel.net was close to bursting into tears.