Chapter 58 HURT HER AGAIN

Chapter 58: Hurt Her Again

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His slender fingers touched the scar. He could feel the unevenness.

It felt like his fingers were burning as he touched it.

“When it comes to a broken body like this, how could you torture her?” Humbert was still on the phone with his half-taunting tone.

But Marcus ignored his teasing as his thumb caressed the scar. Suddenly, he did something so strange to her that he covered it with his palm.

He stared at his pal. He didn’t know what he was doing.

Hearing no voice, Humbert thought Marcus had hung up on him.

But he didn’t end the call as he picked up a cigarette and lit it to savor the taste of nicotine, while Marcus said unassumingly, “It’s longer than my palm.”

“What?” Humbert paused for a beat before figuring it out. “You mean Astrid’s scar on her waist?” Humbert understood him as they had been best friends for so long.

“Even longer than your hand?”

Humbert sucked hard on his cigarette before bubbling a smokey circle.