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Smoking, drinking, and growing increasingly withdrawn-ever since that lauite won Landed him in the hospital, he hadn't fully recovered, and he looked like a shell of his tennet self...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

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

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

she's a bit clueless. I can't help but worry

respond, clinking his glass

rounds, both of them were

at the vintage, luxurious

"I envy that you're with 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

hard I try, I just can't get over it." Ethanchucded

anymore."

feita pang of sympathy for him. After a moment of silence, he hesitated before speaking, "Ethan, maybe you and Evelyn really don't have a future

it hans." Ethan raised his hand to cover his eyes, his voice dry and hoarse. "I've

was one of those things one had to feel for themselves. In