James Black's heart skipped a beat, and he instinctively reached out to take the cigarette Jane Sampson handed him.
He thought she had thrown a tantrum and left home, but he didn't expect that she just wanted to buy him a pack of cigarettes, especially after being choked by the smell of his smoke.
Seeing James Black take the cigarette, Jane Sampson cautiously ventured, "Can you not push me away so forcefully like you just did? If you find me annoying, you can tell me, and I will leave on my own."
"I don't find you annoying," James Black explained. "I pushed you away because I saw you choking on the cigarette smoke. I know you don't like the smell, so I wanted you to wait for me in the living room for a while until the smoke cleared and I had calmed down, then I'd return to the living room."
James Black's fingertips gently pinched the cigarette box, "The reason I didn't speak to you back then was that I had just smoked and my mouth was full of the smell of smoke."
