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?”

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 I want to seize

that she

most of the time, but he was nice to her

the most peaceful and comfortable

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

of a ruined

there was a power blackout, he would take out the coal burning oven to heat water so that

was restored before he could

her to have an abortion, but he still accompanied her

Although ….

sighed and

me. It’s

Stella looked calm, “Mr. Conrad, we are both grown-ups. There’s more than like in our world. Let me tell the truth. From the moment

of his throat moved up and down. He wanted to say something, but he couldn’t open

divorce me. You should hate me. I deserve it. I

six months. And the baby’s gone as you wished. We are even now. Why

“You think that what I have done is

it is possible, I hope Mr.

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

in silence, “Clarence, you should know that

let her go slowly,

that, Stella was relieved, but she

flooded with mixed

no possibilities. He had to

Stella was about to bid the last farewell to him, she was in darkness all of a sudden. Clarence kissed her lips with his cold and thin

Stella, “…?”

him away,

her anger,

“I understand what you said. But it doesn’t matter to me. It’s enough to know that you like

crack his skull to see what was

didn’t have a good time in the past three

“?”

compensate you till you can leave the past behind

you misunderstood. I didn’t mean

“Yes, you did.”

“….”