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. 

had seen wrong, she thought.

was no way people like him could be sad.

to come back.” She shook her

room went pin-drop silent as there was

sense the passing time as

say a word and kept

came out

guy that displayed 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 up the habit ever since he witnessed her

 

anything, though, he stopped smoking. No one knew how long it had passed before Weston said lightly, “Impossible.” That

wrinkled at this point. Instead, he stretched out his hands

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