Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1171

Mark seemed to have assumed that Arianne was already asleep because he came through the door, still on the phone, instead of trying to hide the conversation. “I couldn't care less whatever it is that you plan to do,” he barked. “You go ahead and crap out as many troubles as you like until the world ends. I don’t care. Sorry to burst your bubble, but I’m not, by any means, an unprincipled man.”

Hearing the steely rage in his voice, Arianne put her pen down and looked up at him.

Their eyes met, and a slight change overcame Mark’s expression before he hung up immediately. “You’re still awake? What are you doing in the living room?”

Arianne tucked her unfinished draft toward herself. “Waiting for you, what else? Who were you talking to? You sounded pissed.”

Weariness rose in his eyes. “It’s nothing. I’m going for a bath. You should rest early.”

Arianne was quite upset with him waving the question aside. She had heard every single word he spoke while he was on the phone, and her instincts told her that whoever was on the other side of his phone was a woman. And yet, Mark had decided to keep his lips sealed.

Arianne just wanted to understand him, or at least, know what was currently going on with him. Was this not the sort of thing shared between a husband and a wife? She hated feeling like there was an invisible wall between them.

Mark went into the bathroom while Arianne stood guard outside the door. She was going to make him loosen his mouth. She did not have to try to recall his daily habits—live with a person long enough, and one automatically knows the other person’s schedule.

Mark usually bathed for half an hour, but today, he took an extra ten minutes. It was this little detail that reinforced Arianne’s conjecture that he must be in a knotty spot to have caused this “abnormality.”