Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1708

Arianne was quick to deny. “I was not! It’s just you acting all… weird and bizarre and everything! You keep saying you’re busy, but like… what is it that you’re busy with? If it’s not anything suspicious then there’s no problem telling me what it is, right?”

Mark’s eyes looked away as he chuckled lightly. “Oh, it shouldn’t warrant any suspicions, all right. But… it’s nothing I should tell you right now. Oh, look at the time! I should bathe. Let’s retire to sleep early! I’m beaten.”

She watched him rise and head to the bathroom, and stole a glance at the clock hanging on the wall. It was only nine… And he was “beaten” already? He slept for long hours in the day and still could not keep himself awake—how was this even normal? Nope, this was absolutely abnormal!

After his bath, Mark went straight into Arianne’s room and—proving himself clear of mendacity—plopped straight onto the bed and dozed off.

Arianne was furious, yes, but at this point, all she could do was to ball her anger up for another day. As she studied him, she could not help but notice how sound asleep he was—and suddenly, just like that, her mood quietened.

What if he was genuinely tired? All these years that they had been together, he had never wronged her with the affairs of women except that one time he was with Aery, who continued to be a thorn in Arianne’s flesh.

So, what did she have to lose if she just believed what he said?

Arianne’s eyes fluttered open, basking in the morning light. Still in a spell of grogginess, she saw Mark standing right in front of her French window where the gentle, wispy morning sun blurred his silhouette around the edges like an unreal mirage.

She rolled to her side, and Mark immediately turned around to look at her. “Up already? Mary told me to wake you up for breakfast, but you were still sleeping and I didn’t want to disturb you.”

Arianne brought her hand to her eyes. Even the gentlest rays were a bit too hard for her eyes at the moment. “Wanna… lie down a little longer…”