After entering the car, Arianne said, “Take me to the hotel for a room. I only have my phone with me. I don’t have my ID on me…”Mark nodded slightly and drove back to the hotel. When they passed the counter in the lobby, Arianne halted her steps, only to be reminded by Mark, “You can’t get a room without an ID. Go to my room. I’ll sleep on the couch.”Naturally, she knew she could not get a room without her ID. However, Mark had nodded in the car so she had assumed he had his way to get a room. She did not expect him to come up with this solution. However, since she was already here, it was not like she could just turn around and leave now. It was almost four in the morning, and she was exhausted. Moreover, she had work tomorrow.She knew the room that Mark frequently stayed in was a VIP suite. There were couches in the living room, and it was separated from the bedroom. There was no door to divide them, but it was not like a studio. For this reason, she reluctantly agreed.When Arian
Mark sat on the couch and fiddled with his laptop. After a few seconds, he spoke up, “You were sound asleep. In fact, you were snoring as well. How was I supposed to wake you?”She was snoring? Arianne was embarrassed. She had no idea that she snored, and he had listened to that the entire night? She cleared her throat before she said, “Thank you for last night. I won’t bother you any longer. Please excuse me.”She was left with no choice last night so she had come to the hotel. She would look like an ingrate if she was cold and distant toward him now.“Have a bite before you leave. I’ve ordered takeout. It’ll be here soon,” Mark replied simply.“No need. I’ll have something to eat when I get home.” Arianne instinctively rejected him.“Jackson hasn’t called yet,” Mark said as he closed his laptop. He rose to his feet and looked at her.Arianne hesitated. If Jackson had not called, it meant they had not left the condominium. It would be inappropriate for her to go home now. “Alrig
Tiffany looked like a reprimanded child. She nodded carefully and began stuffing the food into her mouth. She had a lot to drink last night and had puked everything out. She had slept all the way until noon and was already starving.She finally remembered Arianne when she finished eating, “Where’s Ari? Were you here the whole night? Where did she go?”Jackson gave a crooked smile, “I asked Mark to come take her. She’s probably still at the hotel.”Tiffany’s mind was still muddled, “Ari agreed to that?”Jackson shrugged, “I think she did. You tormented her until three in the morning. She was exhausted. Would sleeping in a hotel have been better, or in a small condo with mosquitoes all around? She’s not an idiot. She and Mark are probably awake now. Oh, I saw a water park nearby, and it’s hot. Wanna go? This city is nowhere near the sea, so a water park sounds pretty good. I think it’s pretty large, and the facilities are great too.”Eating, drinking and merry-making was very alluri
Mark didn’t say a word. He followed suit and headed towards the beach as well. Arianned heaved a sigh of relief and slowly followed from behind. She would lift her gaze and glance at Mark from time to time. She could only see his back, but it was clear that he had a really good figure — well-proportioned, firm muscles, and fair skin. Those long, muscular legs were really… attractive.Mark slowed down, probably because he sensed her staring at him. He turned around and looked at her, “Walk faster.”She fearfully turned away, “Got it…”The sun was just as hot as ever today, so hot that it was enough to fry a man into a crisp. Tiffany pulled out a tube of sunscreen and tossed it to Jackson when they arrived underneath a beach umbrella. Then, she lay down on a deck chair, “Put that on for me. Spread it out evenly. I’ll look ugly if I get sunburned.”Jackson, of course, was willing to bear the burden. He applied it meticulously on her. Tiffany noticed that Arianne was still standing in
How could Tiffany possibly let her off? She pushed her into Jackson’s arms, “You hold on to her so that she doesn’t get washed away. Hold on tight; the wave is coming again. You’ll enjoy it once you get used to it. It’s fun! I’ve heard Jackson mention that Mark is a pretty good swimmer. Why are you such a landlubber? You’re no different from someone who can’t swim at all.”Arianne and Jackson both felt awkward. Why was Tiffany so open-minded? Jackson was dressed in swim shorts, and Arianne was dressed in a skimpy bikini. Wasn’t it inappropriate for them to be hugging each other like that? Jackson did not dare say a word and was too afraid to reach out and hold her. Only Arianne awkwardly held onto his shoulders, “Tiffie! What are you doing? Why can’t I hold onto you?”Tiffany could see their embarrassment and giggled, “I think it’s fine. I can swim, you can’t. It’s not like you’ll lose a few pieces of yourselves by holding each other. Don’t worry, I trust you!”Jackson was crying in
Arianne nodded and led the way.The pair went back to the car after collecting the keys. Arianne knelt in the back seat as she focused on her search, completely unaware that Mark had gotten into the car as well and locked it. She thought that he had only gotten in to enjoy the air-conditioning.In the end, she couldn’t find the UV-protection wear. She felt slightly disappointed, “Forget it, I can’t find it. Let’s go find Tiffie and Jackson.”Mark stared intently at the perfect curves of her body. The thought of so many people staring at her in her bikini filled him with jealousy. Back in the pool, she clung onto him, and their bodies were pressed firmly against each other. It had been a while since he had felt this, and his urges crept up to him like vines, slowly spreading its stems and leaves… Until it filled him with need.He reached out and forcefully pulled her into his arms, and she landed onto his lap. Shocked, she frantically tried to struggle away, “What are you doing? We’
Arianne returned to the changing room with the medicine. Taking the medication, she took a shower in the public bathroom and changed back to her casual attire, no longer planning to play in the water anymore. After that, she looked for a milk tea shop to lounge around in for the air conditioning. It was too hot outside. She could still feel the heat on her skin from the short duration of exposing herself under the sun just now.Not too long later, Mark entered the milk tea shop as well and sat down opposite of her. When Arianne saw him, she turned her face away, still visibly angered.“It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have acted on impulse.”He didn’t notice when Arianne froze. Since when did this guy know how to own up to his mistake? Her flame of fury had been burning bright in her heart initially, but when he apologized like this, she swayed. Arianne sat herself upright and said faintly, “It’s not your fault. You’re right in everything you do. You’re Mark Tremont. You can do what you want
Mark did not deny it. To him, the environment here was horrible, but as long as Arianne was there with him, he could hang around anywhere.As they ate, Tiffany asked Jackson suddenly, “I heard that men grow fat when they reach their middle age. They get potbellies. Is that true? Will your abs disappear?”The corners of Jackson’s lips twitched. “If you keep feeding me things like this, maybe. Under normal circumstances, though, it’ll absolutely never happen to me.”Tiffany cackled. “Once I think about you becoming a bald greasy middle-aged man with a big pot belly, I can’t stand it. What should I do? Hahaha…”Jackson felt a headache. “You can’t stand it when you’re laughing like this? I’m going to resist the toll that time will take on me. Even when I’ve reached seventy or eighty years old, I’ll never turn into the image that you described. I’ll stay handsome, from infancy to old age, get that? You women, however, will experience irreversible change after you give birth. That’s not some