Love at the Next Stop

Chapter 76 It’s Not Like You Haven’t Seen Me in This State

Without sparing her a single glance, Miles walked out of the door and acted as though he didn’t see Stella. On the other hand, the moment Kevin saw Stella, he could barely hide the guilty expression on his face as he initiated to exchange pleasantries. “Hello, Stella. I didn’t expect to see you here.”

Upon answering with a grunt, Stella took a quick glimpse at the person, but he seemed to have walked further away as he disappeared into the dark.

Today, Stella was dressed rather differently from the way she dressed in the past.

Back then, although she was dressed in professional attire, her style still carried somewhat a Madam’s vibe, which she couldn’t seem to change within a short period of time. As of now, since she had started her own boutique, her sense of fashion had improved quite a bit. In a formal black suit, and with her silky long hair that was slightly curled up at the end, she conducted herself with professionalism. With light makeup and plump glossy lips, all of it made her look exceedingly charming.

Frankly, there weren’t any major changes with Stella, but somehow there was something different about her which he couldn’t quite tell.

About their breakup, Stella did notice something strange, for Miles seemed to have accepted the breakup calmly and didn’t even bother to question further. From the way he replied, she couldn’t help but wonder whether there was an underlying reason or a misunderstanding behind. Then again, it didn’t really matter anymore since they had broken up, and she really couldn’t accept being someone else’s replacement.

Once she reached home, she decided to first settle the design proposal and then send a copy over to Hollowcrest City.

While she was organizing the proposal, Miles’ face just kept crossing her mind. Somehow, she felt he was like a stranger to her now. Previously when they were together, he would smile at her and would even give suggestive gestures, but from the looks of it now, it seemed like that person was not the real Miles after all—the glacial side of him was in fact the real him.

It was a Saturday the next day, and Stella headed to her boutique.

As the president of Hollowcrest City, Matthew would perform random inspections on all of his boutiques. Considering that Stella’s boutique was one of the few in Murdough, he would turn up quite often, since they had known each other.

When Matthew knew that Miles had a meeting to attend in Murdough this time, both of them had made time to meet up together.

“Is the meeting over?” asked Matthew.

“Yeah,” Miles replied while gently massaging his forehead, looking a little exhausted.

“Since you’ve nothing much to do today in Murdough, why not follow me around to inspect the boutiques?” suggested Matthew.

“Where?” asked Miles frostily.

Miles was a cold and cheerless person all along. In the past, one might still catch him smiling sometimes, but it seemed like he had lost his smile now.

“There aren’t many boutiques around Murdough, so just tag along.”

With his hand halted, Miles said, “No!”

Upon noticing his hand’s momentary pause, Matthew knew that Miles must have thought of Stella and learned about her being one of his fashion brand agents now.

the car. Likewise, Matthew followed after his gaze and looked out too, but didn’t

as he had never stepped into this place and was

season of new arrivals. As she

business so far?”

Stella wasn’t too surprised. But the moment she lifted her head, she saw Miles following behind

have a seat at

here.” Matthew casually took a seat at one of the chairs meant for customers to

Stella, both Miles and Stella

enough clothes, so I purposely brought him here to

At the same time, Stella felt she was being put in an awkward situation. Then again, she was professional when it came to serving customers, so she forced herself to fake a polite smile and went ahead to

shirt over his back as though she was trying to confirm a measurement, then she stood in front of him. Frankly, she knew his

brand was fairly accurate, but still, she insisted on taking the measurement. Standing before Miles at this very moment, she could hear his steady breathing and smell

insisting on taking a measurement wasn’t because she wanted to be close to him, but plainly because she wanted to act like she had no clue

you. Do you wish to give it

Miles. Just then, someone called for Stella from the entrance. As they turned around and

President James has invited me to attend a social gathering. Can you hurry up and pick a shirt for me?”

that, Stella left Miles alone and went to

client, as well as the landlord of her

together, so she had to take this seriously. If Zane would so much as offend President James in any way, her boutique would

Zane, she passed it to him and said, “Remember to be nice

“I know that.”

relatively huge, Matthew could still hear them from a distance. Frowning, Matthew hadn’t planned to let

“Bring along the shirt. Treat it as a gift

need it,” said Miles, and he walked

had put on the shirt, Stella pivoted, but Miles was nowhere

didn’t even notice Miles and Matthew were around. Likewise, Stella clearly didn’t expect they would just leave without saying a word, so after

unfortunate happened to Zane, or more precisely—something happened to President James, for he owed a huge sum of money. As a chain reaction, he had to use

nothing was certain, and there could be unpredictable changes. Previously, she didn’t even have to pay for the shop rental, but now, even after the debt was cleared,

just bought the stocks for next season, her current cash flow was rather tight at the moment. Hence, she didn’t have

possibly help her out because he still had to continue

knowing what else to

would delay her product launch, directly

already owed Miles more than a million. During this period of time, all she had in mind was earning more money; the only way to repay all her debts was to earn more money. However, based on her current circumstance, not only was she unable to afford to pay her debts, but she might even end up in more debt, not to mention bearing

made a point to call up the headquarters in Hollowcrest to delay sending the