Mark obliged and snuffed out the cigarette, his eyes conveying a profound gaze as he asked the question he had long yearned to voice, "What about you? Do you like him?"

Cecilia's eyes welled up with tears, and she replied in a subdued tone, "Kind of.”

Mark realized she wasn't trying to piss him off.

She was simply accepting her fate and making the best of it.

She was willing to marry someone else if they treated Edwin well and were compatible in every way.