A Contract Marriage After a ONS novel Chapter 343

Fortunately, Charlotte did not have difficulties sleeping on a different bed in a different room. She did not take long to fall into her slumber, likely because she had been worn out by her sobs and the ruckus she raised for the day.

Suddenly, Mark's cell emitted a dim blue light, followed by vibration. He bent his arm to pick it up, got up, walked to the French window, and answered the call, "Mom..."

He purposely kept his husky voice down as he was afraid that the little one on the bed would wake up from her slumber.

"Why are you speaking so softly?" Yvette, of course, noticed it.

His thin lips moved. "I've just woke up. What makes you call me at this hour?" said the man in a casual tone. 1

"Mark, how's your Grandma's recovery lately? I'm thinking of visiting her in Athana," Yvette said.

"You don't need to go to Athana. She is almost fully recovered and will return to Norwood in a few days."

Mark's words took a weight off her mind. "Oh good. I was kept in the dark because I couldn't reach your Grandpa and Grandma by phone. Then nothing else. It's already so late. Hurry up and rest."

"All right, you too..."

After Mark hung up, he could no longer sleep. He strode off on long legs to the living room to fetch a bottle of red wine and poured it into a crystal clear wine glass.

The viscous red liquor slowly poured along the glass was mellow and aromatic.

The living room was so silent that all one could hear was the rhythmic ticking of the Quartz clock-tick, took, tick, took—and Kaka's snoring.

Nevertheless, the tranquility failed to wash away the tingling irritability in his mind. Contrary, it made his fretfulness grow further.

With his chin slightly raised, he lifted the wine glass t o his lips. His Adam's apple was bobbing as he drank. As soon as he finished the entire glass of red wine in n o time, his lips curled into a cold smirk.