It was silent inside the car.

Kent started snoring. He had fallen asleep.

It was easier to fall asleep when one was drunk.

Mary turned up the heater, worried Kent would catch a cold.

Did he understand their conversation properly?

Mary hoped he could let go of his feelings for Sheila. Sheila would never accept him. She already had another person by her side.

Although Mary had never met Alex York, she knew he was a handsome man from Kent’s words. Kent still did not know much about Alex’s family background, but all the shop lots along Westbrooke Street belonged to his cousin’s wife.

Kent kept saying that Alex was a useless man who mooched off his cousin and his cousin’s wife, and that he was scamming many girls with his good looks.

He also said Sheila would be deceived by Alex’s handsome face.

Kent complained that he could not win Enid’s favor despite having gone to the Joneses’ clinic every day, yet Enid was on Alex’s side as soon as she met him.

He blamed women for being ob