Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1593

Instead of heeding her, Mark froze into place like a statue.

Arianne ignored him and turned her attention back to her stuff before taking a shower. She re-emerged after she was done to the sight of him sitting by the edge of their bed, his head hung and his mind lost in thoughts.

Emotions as nebulous as the fog shrouded his visage. It was hard to make out what could be on his mind.

She climbed into their bed and laid down. “Switch off the light, please. I’m going to sleep.”

He reached out to the bedside lamp and clicked it off. Amid the ensuing darkness, he said morosely, “I’m sorry. I don’t intend to keep secrets from you, but it’s just… I don’t know how to even say it. Many things have happened recently and I… I’m just so tired.”

Arianne closed her eyes, but sleep was leaving her. “I know you are, and I want to empathize with your anguish. But you’re not giving me the chance to do that at all, Mark. The only thing I can do is to listen. I want to help. I want to take up some of the burden on your shoulders, but God, when those things involve you and your aunt, I’m relegated to the role of an outsider! Do you know? She isn’t the only one ostracizing me—you’re doing the same thing, too. So now, I gave up on caring; I don’t even want to ask. But now you’re suddenly pulling off this weird… thing with me. You don’t happen to suspect I’m mad at you, right? ‘Cause don’t worry, I really am not. Again, I’m not the nosy type who wants to take up everyone’s problem and fix it. So, how about we agree to just focus on our separate domains and do our own thing, hmm?”

For the longest time, Mark offered only silence. Then, without breaking it, he rose and went out of their room—and straight out of the house.

Arianne listened to the sound of his car fading with distance, her sleep now utterly sapped. Where could he be going at this late of a time? Seeing Shelly again?

Mark sat on the bench outside Shelly’s ward in the hospital. After a while, he finally rose to his feet and strode in.

Shelly had troubles sleeping, so she was still awake when she saw him. She had a pretty good gut feeling as to why Mark appeared in her room despite the hour. “Bickered with Arianne again? And she chased you out of the house in the middle of the night?” she stated. “That ought to hurt.”