Man, what's wrong with you?

Jeremy had been listening to him for a while, so now, his muscles were all bunched up with tension, as the other man's voice grated against his ear.

The words coming from the man's mouth made him want to shove his hand in there and pull out his tongue.

With a scoff, he crushed the cigarette in his hand in the ashtray, almost grinding it into powder, and then threw it aside.

Steve was a blockhead who couldn't get a clue, so he still approached Jeremy and said, "Jeremy, can you help me ask her out tonight? I can't wait anymore! In return, I will give you a virgin, okay?"

When he heard that, Jeremy was struck dumb, and his face turned sickly pale in an instant.

Even before, Steve often made fun of him to test how much he cared about his women. However, this time, it made him think.

Had he treated Sherry so badly that Steve couldn't notice the difference?

"Steve, I want to tell you something later, but let me make a call first," he said to pacify Steve.

Then, he took out his phone and called Sherry.

In his mind, the least that he could do for her was to keep her identity confidential. After all, she had been his wife for so many years. But then, he determined that it was probably okay to let Steve know.

Between the choice of telling Steve or not, he decided that this was better since he didn't want Steve to keep thinking about her all the time.

"Sherry, I'm in the bar where we met last time. Can you please come here? Steve is here too. I..." Jeremy trailed off into silence when he thought of Jeffery all of a sudden.

His voice, which was originally polite and kind, suddenly turned icy and domineering, and as Sherry listened to him, it felt like ice-cold water was poured over her head.

"Sorry, I can't. I'm busy right now."

trembling voice replied before she quickly ended

she held her cellphone tightly, her fingertips whitening with too

voice rang in

at that time, that she could not help but begin to doubt, but then, she didn't think that Jeremy would agree at all. After all, she was his wife. He didn't love her, but it would still be shameful for

phone call she just received shattered her only hope, and

palm, and it made crescent-shaped indents

could hurt her as much as

forlornly in front of the familiar villa and had just taken out

was not her

she hailed a taxi out of the blue,

she could still see the curtain inside, and she

this place, the apartment that she had bought with her hard-earned salary. Who knows? Maybe she could live here

too much, and then she went to the nearby supermarket to buy the toiletries she needed

upstairs when a strange sound came from the roadside, and she couldn't stop herself

man, who was squatting against a tree and vomiting. The hair on

strong smell of wine and alcohol assaulted Sherry's nose, and even though she was

her tracks, and disbelief and surprise overtook her face. The man who was retching on the sidewalk looked up, and he looked

'Why is he here?'

a jumble of thoughts at that

because she had

suddenly, as Jeremy's words

from the effort of not looking back.

of retching echoed once again. A pained

he was slumped against and whispered,