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He entered his room and was shocked to see Harry sitting in it. He was sitting on the sofa in the room, smoking a cigarette. The ashtray was full of cigarettes. I knew that Harry had started smoking a lot of cigarettes these days. Alexander was worried about seeing him in his room.

He never smoked in front of her; if ever he was drinking, he would hide it immediately. He would put out his cigarette and hide it; he would pretend he wasn't smoking, but today Harry's presence in his room showed that he didn't care what Alexander would think of seeing him like that. What will you feel?

Alexander looked intently at Harry, who was dressed in a nightgown, the coat he had taken off but the shirt inside his pants, the shirt half buttoned open. He was leaning against the sofa with his eyes shaved and a half-lit cigarette in his fingers. I was there, and he was burning his fingertips. Didn't he know or was he numb? He was busy cooling down some other burning inside himself while bearing the burn