Mr. Ford Is Jealous

Chapter 144

Weston abruptly extinguished his cigarette on the ashtray before turning to face her. “Do you really have to talk to me like that?” 

“It has to end today,” Stella answered firmly. 

“End?” The words whirled in his tongue before he spit them out softly. With a wry smile on his face, he said, “I rushed all the way here from Anh City, and I didn’t get a wink of sleep. The minute I landed, I came here to see you, only to hear you telling me you’re marrying someone else?” 

She wasn’t sure whether it was because the room was dark, but while Weston was saying all of this, she saw a sorrowful expression on his face. 

But it was only a fleeting moment. 

she had seen wrong, she thought.

like him could

back.” She shook her head with firmness.

whole room went pin-drop silent as there was

passing time as Weston was puffing

that he didn’t say a word and kept quiet,

out of

his weaknesses, but the fact that he did so much merely to see her made him feel like a laughingstock. Without realizing it, he was already down a few sticks of cigarettes. He wasn’t addicted to tobacco before, but he picked

at her and didn’t say anything, though, he stopped smoking. No one knew how long it had passed before Weston said lightly, “Impossible.” That one word smashed all of her hopes. “When

Instead, he stretched out his hands to smooth her clothes, treating them with care as