Chapter 1343


    Chapter 1343


    She picked up the clothes and discovered that they were impossible to wear in such a state. She could


    not help but re at the man sleeping in bed before stuffing her clothes into the dryer.


    Ste took a quick tour around the apartment and found that it contained no items that might belong to a


    woman. For some reason, this discovery relieved her, considering she had nothing to do with Weston


    anymore.


    After she was done with all that, Weston still remained sleeping. She looked at how deeply he was


    sleeping and decided not to wake him up, and just walked out of the


    room.


    She looked around for his study because she wanted to use hisputer. It ended up being very easy to


    find because the apartment had Weston’s usual favoriteyout, and since Ste had spent years living


    with him in the past, she was naturally familiar with his preferences.


    She opened the door and was instantly faced with a wall densely covered with photos. She was rooted to


    the spot and just stood there at the door, not taking a single step inside.


    Even from a distance, she could clearly see that the wall was covered with photos of her.


    Stunned, she stood there in a daze. It took her a long time before she regained her senses.


    Finally, she closed the door behind her and took furtive steps into the room. In the center of the wall was


    a


    picture of their wedding. In fact, they did not have any official wedding pictures taken at all when they got


    married the first time. Their wedding had been extremely simple and ad–hoc because Weston was


    merely using it as a tool to free himself from his father’s control.


    Weston did exinter that he did not marry Ste because of Guinevere Cohen, and it was surely not


    to make Guinevere jealous and crawl back to him.


    Nevertheless, he could not deny that the marriage was an act of defiance on his part, as it was his way


    of telling his family he refused to walk down the pathid out for him by his father. He also had no


    intention of taking the me for his father, nor did he want to spend the rest of his life with a woman he


    did not love.


    Ultimately, their marriage was only Weston’s way of controlling his own destiny.


    But he still had to give in and go along with his father’s n in the end because Guinevere had gotten


    pregnant- with Chris Ford’s child. He was then forced to marry the woman who was the mother of his


    half–brother.


    As Ste thought of this, she began to understand what Weston had to go through. Had she been in his


    ce, she


    was not sure what choices she would have made. She was not even convinced that she could do any


    better than he did.


    It was only because Weston had terribly hurt her that she just could not find a way to let go of all the pain


    he had caused her.


    After all, the breakdown of their marriage hade at an excruciatingly painful cost–the death of her


    unborn


    child. Every time she saw Weston’s face, she was


    reminded of the tragic loss of her own flesh and blood and the unbearable sorrow that came with it.


    As she slowly walked into the room, she noticed that the wedding photo was one that they had taken


    after Weston had forced her to stay in Stardust Mansion.


    Ste had lost all her feelings for Weston by then, but as she was still forced to do as he wished, the


    result was the very awkward smile on her face in the photo. It was very obvious that there was no


    sincerity. She remembered how even the photographer had asked her to act more naturally and try to


    look more sincere back then.


    But that only made Weston angry at the photographer. His face quickly darkened, and he demanded to


    get a different photographer right away.


    All the events in that period felt so distant from her current life, almost as if they had happened in a


    different lifetime, even though it had only been three years ago.


    Apart from the wedding photo, there were many more pictures of her that Weston had taken without her


    knowledge. She was smiling brightly like a blooming flower in some of them. In others, her smiles were


    fake as she was obviously only trying to appease him. In some pictures, she waspletely


    expressionless, while in others, she looked sad and gloomy…


    There were so many photos there, and they all shared one thing inmon–her.


    She wasn’t even familiar with some of those photos. She was not sure when or why she ever showed the


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    expressions disyed there. There were even some photos of her blushing deeply, which were


    obviously taken when she was losing control of herself…


    But among that wall of pictures, none of them had been taken during their first year of marriage. Weston


    seemed to have sneakily taken all these photos when Ste was locked up in Stardust Mansion after


    their divorce.


    It looked like Weston fell hopelessly in love with her during that time. But when did his feelings start to


    develop?


    Ste went on to stare at the pictures and noticed one that caught her eye.


    It was the only photo that was taken in their first year of marriage.


    She was in the kitchen, but she was not wearing an apron. Instead, it looked like she had just got back


    from


    somewhere else. She seemed to be in a rush and did not have the time to tie up her hair yet, and it


    casually draped down on her back. She was holding a tomato in her hands, which she was washing in


    the sink.


    She had no idea why Weston would take that picture of her.