Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1600

As soon as Mark ended the call, Shelly asked casually, “Was that Arianne? What’s the matter?”

He helped her into the car. “It was nothing. Listen, I’m going to send you home, and then I have to leave for somewhere else. I have things to attend to.”

Shelly’s lips thinned in silence. She had heard him carefully enough—it had something to do with the company’s finances. More importantly, Mark displayed a dangerous amount of faith in Arianne, effectively making her the Treasury Secretary of the company.

It broke open a spring of ire. The way Shelly saw it, Arianne was just a random orphan girl who was lucky enough to be raised by Mark. The only trait of worth this girl had was a degree of physical attractiveness enough to bewitch poor, hapless Mark… and nothing else! How could so much power over Tremont Enterprise even fall into the hands of a vixen like that?

They reached Shelly’s condominium, and almost instantly after Mark left, Shelly sat on the couch and called Arianne.

“Hello, Arianne. Got time? There’s something I would love to speak to you about. Is that fine?” she began.

Arianne did not spring into any agreement right away. Shelly calling her out of her own accord ticked off so many alarms in her mind that she had to consider whatever the woman said very carefully. Instead of agreeing, she asked gingerly, “Is Mark with you there? He’s left, hasn’t he?”

Shelly was forthcoming in her answer. “Oh yes, he’s gone, alright. I wouldn’t have called you otherwise, would I? Because, you see, I want to meet you… alone. I know, you are itching to know what happened after Mark found me. I didn’t want to divulge in the past, but now, I am ready to chat a bit. Mark doesn’t want to talk about it at all, does he? And yet you hunger for the reveal. If I continue to keep it a secret from you, I’m afraid the mystery might drive you crazy, won’t it?”

Shelly cast a very, very seductive bait. Yes, Arianne hungered to know what in the world happened after Mark found Shelly. Most crucially, she wanted to understand why Mark started to behave so erratically since then.