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.

was no way people like him could

come back.” She shook her

whole room went pin-drop silent as there

the passing time as

didn’t say a word and kept quiet, she spoke again.

out of his

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

 

one knew how long it had passed before Weston said lightly, “Impossible.” That one word smashed all of her hopes. “When will you let me go?” she broke down suddenly and cried. “You’ve asked this a million times.” He stood up and took

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

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