When There Is Nothing Left But Love (Ashton And Scarlett)

I wasn’t planning to subject myself to further awkwardness that night. I stood up and prepared to clear the table. Ashton, however, was looking at me strangely. Bemused, I asked, “Do you want to head over to the living room and rest?”

Ashton didn’t speak. He wordlessly got up and brought the dishes into the kitchen.

I took a step forward to stop him. He was a guest, after all. However, Ashton’s dark gaze halted me in my tracks. I gaped at him, unable to muster a single coherent thought.

I lowered my head and turned to the sink. Before I could turn on the tap, however, Ashton had hauled me aside. “Get over there. I’ll do it,” he said roughly.

I could only look on apprehensively as his long, elegant fingers set to work cleaning up the kitchen.

I made another move to assist him but was arrested by his menacing gaze. All I could manage was to stand by, hovering over his shoulder and fretting inwardly.

After a moment’s thought, I asked tentatively, “Why did you suddenly move all the way here? Aren’t you returning to K City already?”

Ashton tilted his head and looked at me icily. “Are you saying that you don’t want me here?”

Good Heavens! This man is impossible. I thought exasperatedly.

To Ashton, however, I shook my head vigorously. “There’s so much for you to do in K City. Haven’t you more or less settled your matters here?”

“What about that?” Ashton replied curtly. He turned back to the dishes in hand, scrubbing and rinsing them off expertly.

He seemed reluctant to talk. I made up my mind not to put myself out on Ashton’s account.

I thus kept to myself as I waited in the corner, ready with a hand towel for him to dry off when he was done. Ashton took it, then turned his attention to the fridge.

Baffled, I broke my silence. “What are you looking for?”

replied, pushing aside cartons and

eggs for?”

turned to me serenely and asked, “Don’t you feel a slight

nodded uncomprehendingly. “A little. What does that have

“Go to the

trailed off, but any fool would have understood immediately

quickly turned. There was a large stain on my pants that I had, up until

expecting my period to have arrived so suddenly without warning.

hapless state, Ashton

I turned and

exit the kitchen, however, Armond and Nora’s voices drifted in, getting louder as their owners approached the living room. Armond and Nora had

in cold sweat and looked

his voice, he commented, “It’s

At the sight of Ashton draping his jacket around my shoulders,

“I’m going to the bedroom to change into

frame meant that his jacket hung rather

changed as quickly as I could. In my hurry to escape from Armond and Nora,

only hover,

bedroom door. When I cracked

been discreetly hiding into my hands. Nora batted her eyelashes at me slyly, saying, “You’ve got rather

I emerged, Nora was sitting on the bed in deep

talking about life. Can you believe it?” Nora scoffed.

matter and merely commented, “I had plans to move in with you, but that’s turned out to be rather unfeasible. I

Nora nodded. “Got it.”