Man, what's wrong with you?

Jeremy had been listening to him for a while, so now, his muscles were all bunched up with tension, as the other man's voice grated against his ear.

The words coming from the man's mouth made him want to shove his hand in there and pull out his tongue.

With a scoff, he crushed the cigarette in his hand in the ashtray, almost grinding it into powder, and then threw it aside.

Steve was a blockhead who couldn't get a clue, so he still approached Jeremy and said, "Jeremy, can you help me ask her out tonight? I can't wait anymore! In return, I will give you a virgin, okay?"

When he heard that, Jeremy was struck dumb, and his face turned sickly pale in an instant.

Even before, Steve often made fun of him to test how much he cared about his women. However, this time, it made him think.

Had he treated Sherry so badly that Steve couldn't notice the difference?

"Steve, I want to tell you something later, but let me make a call first," he said to pacify Steve.

Then, he took out his phone and called Sherry.

In his mind, the least that he could do for her was to keep her identity confidential. After all, she had been his wife for so many years. But then, he determined that it was probably okay to let Steve know.

Between the choice of telling Steve or not, he decided that this was better since he didn't want Steve to keep thinking about her all the time.

"Sherry, I'm in the bar where we met last time. Can you please come here? Steve is here too. I..." Jeremy trailed off into silence when he thought of Jeffery all of a sudden.

His voice, which was originally polite and kind, suddenly turned icy and domineering, and as Sherry listened to him, it felt like ice-cold water was poured over her head.

"Sorry, I can't. I'm busy right now."

trembling voice replied before she

she held her cellphone

rang in

begin to doubt, but then,

the phone call she just received shattered her only hope, and she

embedded into her palm, and it made crescent-shaped indents

in this world that could hurt her as much as the pain that

taken out her keys, but

not

a taxi out of the

which she could still see the curtain inside, and she

come back to this place, the apartment that she had bought with her hard-earned

to clear her thoughts, as she reminded herself not to think too much, and then she

was about to go upstairs when a strange sound came from the roadside, and she

against a tree and vomiting. The hair on her arms stood on their ends

of wine and alcohol assaulted Sherry's nose, and even though she was used

stopped in her tracks, and disbelief and surprise overtook her face. The man who was retching on the sidewalk looked up, and

'Why is he here?'

mind felt like a jumble of thoughts at that moment, and she didn't know what to

if she helped him because she had just met Jeffery twice.

up suddenly, as Jeremy's words came unbidden unto her

from Jeffery, and her shoulders and neck were stiff from the effort of not looking back. By name, she was still Jeremy's wife, so it

she could fully leave his presence, the sound of retching echoed once again. A pained groan

he was