A Ruling Passion – Chapter 1828

Arianne’s mind was upheaved into a terrible confusion.

She hung the call soon and stood in the bathroom alone, desperately combing through her memory of Mark’s recent behavior to find any abnormality.

Arianne would not have ever suspected Mark before Melanie stated her case. But once the woman raised her points, Arianne just could not help but follow the way the conjecture went. Yes, Arianne very much wanted to believe Mark was in the clear, but even she had to admit that he had always been capable of analogous cruelties.

He had been downright apoplectic the night he found her with Mateo. And yet with the exception of beating that man on the spot as an outlet for his anger, Mark came out of the experience almost unaffected. There was no follow-up to the event, there was not even a mention on the days after. The way he had been acting was simply a far cry from his character.

The Mark that Arianne knew was a man who never gave anyone or anything a pass. Anything he perceived as a threat or an affront would be uprooted from his path completely with extreme prejudice. It was just not like him to turn the other cheek, he would not sincerely pardon someone just because Arianne apologized. On the contrary, he would hold a grudge against it.