“Stop crying. They must not catch me with you,” Travis said. “Be strong. Okay?”
Stella nodded and cleaned her tears from her heavy eyes.
Travis put back the fake moustache and made Stella look at his eyes. “Promise me you will eat and take these drugs.”
“Do you want to leave me now?” Worry lingered on her face.
“I will make sure we meet again. Please make sure you eat and take the drugs I gave you. Promise me so that my heart would find peace.”
Stella cleaned another dripping tear. “Alright, I promise.”
“I love you.” Travis made her drop her hands off him.
“I love you too,” Stella said, and was about to hug him again, but he stopped her, and glanced at himself in the big mirror near Stella’s bed.
Travis redressed himself so that the Morrisons’ family won’t identify him. He unlocke
