She held the hands of the twins, one in each hand, and said, “Let’s go back to our private room.”Weston was, of course, unwilling to let them go.He stepped forward without hesitation and grabbed her small wrist, only to realize that it seemed thinner than before.When they met again, he thought she was doing well as her complexion looked good.But the fragile and tender bones in her wrist indicated she hadn’t been living too well for the past three years.She must have suffered quite a lot.Falling into deep thought, he forget what he wanted to say.She looked at him impatiently and shook off his hand languidly and somewhat indifferently. “Mr. Ford, why don’t you say anything after calling out to me?”She sniggered, not showing any annoyance, but with a hint of awkwardness. “I have an appointment, and I don’t have the time to talk riddles with you here. By the way, I heard that today is your birthday. I shall wish you a happy birthday, then.”Weston tightened his grasp, and
Stella dismissed all these troubling thoughts and exhaled sharply.She looked at the man on the couch with the smell of alcohol, feeling a little helpless.“Get up. We shall go back to the apartment first. I will cook you something.”Miguel’s eyes shone the moment he heard that. “Really?”Even through the fog of drunkenness, he still retained some of his consciousness. “You haven’t cooked for me for a long time…”He sounded a bit aggrieved.He liked her cooking.Although she wasn’t nearly as good as a professional chef, her home-cooked concoctions had a unique taste, especially her noodles, and though he did not know what recipe she used, it was always different from the other cooks.Stella knew he was craving her food and said to him, still holding hands with Elias and Emma, “We will wait for you downstairs. You come down quickly.”She knew he needed time to sober up after all the drinking.He closed his eyes to rest for a moment.After that, he opened the window and let ou
He paused for a while and put his arm down suddenly. Gazing at her, he said earnestly, “At least I’m someone important to you. That’s enough for me to outweigh all other suitors of yours.”He still sounded very confident in himself.All her suitors were basically unappealing to her.No matter in which aspect, none of them could compete with him.The only man he found to be a threat was Weston.He lit a cigarette. “Indeed, he’s the one who wields all the power in Ahn City…”As soon as he took a puff, he saw Stella frowning.He hastily put it off. “I am sorry. I was a little overwhelmed by drinking too much.”Without saying anything, she wound down the car window to let the air in.She did not like the smell of cigarettes and did not want Elias and Emma to be exposed.“You are still young. Now is the time for you to sharpen your skills. Smoke and drink less. These habits are unhealthy.”Times had changed. Drinking and smoking might have been required to get business deals in t
Stella smiled. “Yeah.”The two ate the noodles quietly in a cozy atmosphere.Miguel had eaten all sorts of expensive delicacies over the years, yet his favorite was still the taste of home cooking.After finishing eating, she raised her head up, pulled a tissue paper, and said out of nowhere, “I met Weston today.”The man’s hand, which was holding the fork, froze, and he looked up at her almost immediately. “When did it happen? Why didn’t you tell me until now?”She wiped her mouth and tossed the tissue paper into the glass jar beside her. “It was just downstairs from where we were dining. Someone had booked the place, it was his birthday.”He snorted. “I have totally forgotten about that. He turns thirty today, right?”Then, he put down his fork and spat out two words. “Old man.”She found it hilarious to see him looking so childish.She covered her nose and giggled, though her reaction didn’t escape his eyes—“What are you laughing at? Was I wrong? Isn’t he an old man?”He
Such a man could only truly love after a great loss, even at the cost of death, before he could realize what it meant to cherish someone.Regardless, belated love was lowlier than none.Stella was no longer the one who would give all her heart upon receiving just a little warmth.…It was very late at night.Weston stood on the balcony, holding a thick stack of papers in his hand.They were all about Stella’s life experiences in the past three years.He never thought that this woman would fake her death to escape from him.And he was actually unaware of it.He thought of the corpse she left behind three years ago. He did not even notice that it was not her at all until the car was burned to ashes.She had been living a prosperous life these past few years, with the Garcia family supporting her, so it was unsurprising that he hadn’t been able to find out about her.He was more focused on sorcery and faith, hoping that those strange powers would allow her to see him again.Bu
The streetlights were dim, and pedestrians were scarce. The night sky was dotted with stars; the background was a boundless horizon.The tall man stood in the light, his shadow stretched out infinitely with the light from his back, exuding subtle loneliness.Stella walked to the balcony and looked down with her phone in her hand. “What business do you have that you come looking for me?”“Why don’t you ask me how I got your address?”She laughed. “Do I have to? Who in Ahn City would not know about your ability? It is just an address. Anyone who has it will send it to you.”Hearing her teasing tone, Weston raised his head and looked at the slender figure on the balcony and said with a hoarse voice, “You come down, or I come up?”She withdrew her eyes and leaned on the railing behind her, leaving him with only a back view.A moment later, she looked at her nails and said indifferently, “I’m not going down, and you don’t have to come up. It’s good for us to be separated by a distanc
When she finished, she turned around, entered the building, and did not come out again.…When it was time to go to work, everything had already been recharged.It wasn’t time for her appointment with Bradley yet, so she leisurely made breakfast for Elias and Emma.When she heard the sound of a car engine downstairs, she knew it was Weston driving away.She took two glasses of milk and placed them in front of Elias and Emma, staring at them as they drank them.Emma’s small hands held the large glass of milk. She reluctantly finished it, and milk foam was all over her mouth.Seeing this, Elias said in disgust, “Dirty cat, messy cat.”He pulled out a tissue paper and wiped her mouth.When Stella walked out of the kitchen with a plate of poached eggs and saw the interaction between the twins, her heart felt warm and tender.So many things happened in the past few years, and she felt that her life was rather unfortunate, filled with many ups and downs.But sometimes, she felt th
Weston frowned upon hearing that.Daisy tensed up, seeing his facial expression.Just as she was speculating which of her words made him uncomfortable, the man suddenly opened his thin lips lightly and said, “She’s married. You shouldn’t call her that.”She froze for a moment, and her eyes flickered, not expecting that he would care about this by this time…She nodded, barely tugging her lips, and said, “My mistake… I just didn’t expect that Mrs. Ford did not look for you in the past three years… After we left last night, didn’t you have a proper conversation with her?”He curled his fingers and held them against his eyebrows, slightly closing his eyes for a moment.She saw the dark circles under his eyes and was a little distressed.He must’ve only slept a little last night.He must be thinking about that woman again.What was so good about her that she could make him miss her so much…She was still laughing at Nicole last night. But the actual fact was that she was similar