Rewriting My Heart's Fate

Chapter 196

Keeping it from tyla, Antoine agreed. Halt an bons later, he pushes the door open and stepped into the private usoni,

than was nursing a drink, and halt a bottle of red wine sat empty on the table. He had acigarette dangling from his left hand and was fiddling with his phone win he trally locked up at the sound. As Ethan's friend, Antene had watched him change bit by bit over the past six monilis.

Smoking, drinking, and growing increasingly withdrawn-ever since that lauite won Landed him in the hospital, he hadn't fully recovered, and he looked like a shell of his tennet self...

Antoine sighed and walked over. "How's the wound healing? You're still smoking?"

"Asthing happening with Evelyn lately?" Ethan asked, extinguishing the cigarette in the ashtray.

Antoine hesitated, staring at Ethan for a long moment without saying thing.

gaze. "Lyla told you not to say thing? t that's

drink "Want to join me? It's been ages since we've had a drink together.

to Ethanaising his glass, "Lyla she's a bit clueless. I

clinking his glass against

them were starting to feel the

leaned back against the couch, staring up at the

someone you care about, that you can be so close to each other. "Antoine, I used to think there was nothing I couldn't achieve if 1 just worked hard enough. But with Evelyn, I can feel she likes me. I know she

hard I try, I just can't get over it." Ethanchucded sadly. "Antoine, I don't know what

anymore."

of silence, he hesitated before speaking, "Ethan, maybe you and Evelyn really don't have a future together or letting go might be the best outcome for both

Ethan raised his hand to cover his eyes, his

it was one of those things one had to