Chapter 342

Stephen's dark eyes were clouded and intense, his voice low and heavy. "Tessa, you really don't understand men. The way Lester looks at you—he isn't even trying to hide how he feels. Can't you see what he's thinking?" Tessa suddenly let out a soft laugh. She looked at him like he was speaking complete nonsense. She shot back with biting sarcasm, "You're right. I don't understand men. That's why I believed my ex when he said that as long as I never mentioned breaking up, he would never leave me first. And when we did split up, he laughed and told me that only a fool would believe something that childish." Stephen froze. Weren't they just talking about Lester? How did the conversation suddenly flip to him? Those words were exactly what he had said to her the day they broke up. He remembered how devastated she had been. And honestly, it had not hurt her any more than it had hurt him. Saying those cruel, calculated things had nearly gutted him. The jealousy in Stephen's chest instan