Mr. Conrad Proposes To His Ex-wife Again

Stella was not going to waste her time on arguing with him, so she talked back immediately, “Never mind if you don’t want to tell me.”

Clarence grabbed her shoulders and asked word by word, “Stella, do you like Emmett?”

“…” Stella frowned, “What a weird question.”

“Just answer me.”

Stella answered after a while, “No.”

Clarence tightened his grasp and asked again in a soft and low voice, “Then do you like me?”

“You stopped me here for asking these boring questions?”

“How could they be boring?”

Stella raised her voice, “They are totally boring! And, I have been wondering why did you come to my party with my friends. Don’t you feel embarrassed and uncomfortable?”

“Not at all.”

“But Mr. Conrad, have you found that everyone else was upset by your present?”

Clarence responded in an unemotional voice, “I don’t care others’ opinions. I only care you.”

Hearing his words, Stella couldn’t help laughing, “Mr. Conrad is serious?”

“Yes.”

“If Mr. Conrad really cares what I think, haven’t you figured out that I hate you? Your appearance upset not only my friends, but also me ….”

Clarence interrupted her, “Stella, this is your answer?”

“What ….”

Stella realized what did he mean as soon as she uttered the first word.

He referred to the question that if she liked him.

Stella looked at him calmly, “I thought you knew the answer.”

Clarence asked, “Now that you hate me, why did you help me today?”

since you were one of the guests joining us for dinner, we shouldn’t destroy the atmosphere because of you. And, I owed you a lot, so

Stella had to admit that she

wretched man had been mean to her most of the time, but

was the most peaceful and comfortable

that time, although Clarence couldn’t cook, he cooked fish soup

the expense of

when there was a power blackout, he would take out the coal burning oven to

supply was

he asked her to have an abortion, but

Although ….

sighed and stopped recalling

It’s

we are both grown-ups. There’s more than like in our world. Let me tell the truth. From the moment

throat moved up and down. He wanted

know it was disgusting that I threatened you with the baby to make you divorce me. You should hate me. I deserve it. I

months. And the baby’s gone as you wished. We are even now. Why don’t you

in a low voice, “You think that what I

live my own life. If it is possible,

a few seconds, “If we had kept the baby, would you

we had.” Stella sighed in silence, “Clarence, you should know

let her go slowly,

Stella was relieved, but she

flooded

possibilities. He had to

in darkness all of

Stella, “…?”

she could push him away, Clarence took

held her anger,

But it doesn’t matter to me. It’s enough to

to crack his skull to see

continued, “It was my fault that you didn’t have a good time in the past three years, but I never evade

“?”

keep finding ways to compensate you till you can leave the

misunderstood. I didn’t mean that

“Yes, you did.”

“….”