Hearing Steven’s deep, low voice from above her head, Gwen's arm around his waist loosened. That voice...was Luke's. However, the way he talked, his tone, and his habits were a far cry from him.
Luke would never speak to her in this way. Instead, he would use her finger to pinch her nose and say dotingly, "Silly, did you miss me? I know you can't leave me."
To others, Luke was an apathetic man. To her, he was always a warm and caring man. The man that Gwen was hugging had a different tone, different way of speaking, and logic from Luke. Luke from the past would never address a woman so politely, even if he was speaking to outsiders.
Gwen took a deep breath and slowly loosened her arms around his waist. She cocked her head to look at the man in front of her.
His brow, eyes, nose, jaw, lips... Even the scar on his forehead and the scratch mark on his neck which was caused by Gwen... They were all identical to Luke's.
She bit her lip and looked at the man in front of her warily. "Luke, what happened to you?"
By then, Luna made her way toward them. The first thing she did was hold Gwen's shoulder and looked at the man in front of her. If she thought this man looked similar to Luke previously ...she was certain this man in front of her was Luke now that she was up close.
Two people could not possibly look this identical. This man was Luke!
"Miss." Steven looked at Gwen helplessly, and then at the crowd around them.
He had tried to explain to Gwen when she was drunk that he was not Luke, yet Gwen was relentless. His explanation did not work, and he refused to reiterate or repeat himself to Gwen.
There were too many people around them with their phones out, and he was afraid they might have taken photos of what happened. Thus, he needed to explain it to Gwen in front of the crowd. He needed to make it clear that Gwen had mistaken him for someone else and that he did not betray Kate.
He took a deep breath and said," Miss, I know the Luke that you mentioned is an important person to you, but I'm not the Luke you're looking for. You probably don't know me, so let me introduce myself.” He took a step back and looked at Gwen solemnly. "My name is Steven Hughes. I'm the young master of the Hughes family, no longer single. I have a fiancee named Kate Miller, the young miss of the Miller family."
After that, he took out his phone and showed Gwen the selfie he took with Kate with their faces pressed together. "This is me and my fiancee. We've been together for more than five years and are deeply in love. Our engagement and wedding are well underway, so I'm afraid you have the wrong person."
Gwen felt like she was struck by thunder, petrified as she stood still, her mind going blank.
'How could that be? I can accept he is not Luke...but why is he saying he is Kate's fiance? They've been together for five years? Bullshit! Kate was chasing after Luke before this, telling him how much she loved him more than a month ago, yet all this while, she's been in love with this man for five years?!'
Gwen did not believe it. She could not believe what the man said.
She knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that the man she was looking at was Luke!
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