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. 

seen wrong, she thought.

people like him

back.” She

pin-drop silent as there was no other sound.

time as Weston was puffing

word and kept quiet,

no words came out of his

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

 

smoking. No one knew how long it had passed before Weston said lightly, “Impossible.” That one word smashed

mind that the jacket was wrinkled at this point. Instead, he stretched out his hands

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