Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 549

His silence prompted Arianne to question him with her red-rimmed eyes. “Why aren’t you speaking? Are you lying? You’re lying! How did Rice Ball die? It’s gone already, so can’t you just tell me the truth?”

Mark snuffed out the cigarette then lifted his gaze. “I didn’t lie to you. Henry called me after you got out of the car. You can call him yourself if you don’t believe me. I have no reason to deceive you. I admit that I’m at fault for not taking care of it more meticulously.”

Arianne stood leaning against the wall as tears tumbled down her cheeks, looking like a little girl who had just lost something beloved to her. Only crying could ease her emotions. “You never liked it from the beginning; you loathed it! It was your fault for not allowing me to take it away! Why do you have to deprive me of everything I like? It was only a cat! It may be a nasty cat in your eyes, but it was very important to me!”

She didn’t notice that Mark, who hadn’t smoked in front of her for a long time, lit a cigarette as soon as he came in. She had always thought that Mark never liked Rice Ball, so naturally she wouldn’t notice that he was lighting a cigarette to ease the pain and irritation in his heart.

Mark lowered his gaze and remained silent, until Arianne came forward and hurled a pillow on the sofa at his chest. “I hate you so much!”

He didn’t move. He just allowed her to vent until she was done and broke down in tears. “I’m sorry,” he reached out and tried to comfort her.

Arianne flung his hand away. She sat in one corner with a pillow and sobbed. “I don’t want to listen to you. Shut up!”

Mark closed his mouth obediently and offered her a tissue. She took it and cried even harder. “I’m never going to keep another cat, and I don’t want to see you again!”

Mark much rather preferred that she cry and make noises than just keep quiet. Ever since he learned that Rice Ball was gone, he was prepared for the worst. He was afraid that she wouldn’t throw a tantrum and would hate him from the bottom of her heart.

After crying for a while, Arianne stretched her hand out toward him while sobbing, “You have videos of Rice Ball on your phone, right? Let me see them.”

He obediently handed it to her and allowed her to go through the gallery on his phone. He didn’t have a hobby of taking selfies, and there were no shameful secrets in his phone. There were only a few videos of Rice Ball in his gallery and nothing else. Arianne just watched the videos repeatedly then cried. After crying, she watched them again. The cycle repeated until she fell asleep on the sofa.

After making sure that she was sound asleep, Mark carefully carried her back into her bedroom. It was getting late, so there was no point in driving back to the hotel. Besides, he wanted to be by her side at a time like this too, so he stayed but slept on the sofa.