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

I completely forgot about that. “Yeah, sure. Do we go now? Or do we go later?” I nodded while answering.

“Let’s go in the evening. Then we can stay there for the night. I am not really up yet. I will need some time to get prepared. I’ll come to get you when I’m done.”

I nodded and said, “Okay, just call me by that time.”

Last night’s events suddenly replayed in my mind. I asked, “Were you okay last night? Why are you up so early today?” She did drink quite a lot last night.

She sighed, “Don’t talk about it. I was almost beaten up. If it weren’t because I wanted to pry Linda for information, I wouldn’t drink that much alcohol. Seriously, my head is still hurting!”

“Armond is not around?”

“Yeah, he seems to have something on. He went out early in the morning. My grandpa’s call woke me up, and I called you right away since I’m awake. I plan to sleep for a while more. Let’s go over later.” Her words were slurring. She must be getting sleepy.

“Alright, you get some sleep. I’ll read at home in the meantime. Do you want to come over for lunch since Armond is not around?”

“No thank you,” she rejected. “I don’t think I will be awake by that time. Besides, isn’t that expressionless guy at home right now? I am kind of intimidated by him, so I’ll pass.”

I smiled and didn’t insist.

After I hung up, I went straight into the study. Perhaps because this house was recently set up, there weren’t many books in the study. There were mostly some documents and magazines.

a book title caught my eye. Three Makes a Family. I reached for

didn’t expect that Ashton would have such a wholesome book on his bookshelf. Since the book was to my liking, I sat

when he came in. He sat down beside me and asked, “What are you reading? You

a hand to touch my face.

have understood it differently. He grinned from ear to ear and announced, “You are blissful

I felt immense sweetness at what he said. “A good love story

asked, “So when are you coming back to K City with

back to K City again. I lowered my head a bit and thought about it.

days ago, I was planning to get divorced from him. A few days later, we were joined at the hip. Nobody

pulled me into his arms and sniffed my

leaned into him and replied cheekily, “I am

ear. “Glutton!” he commented. “I may need to go out for a while.

I saw on his phone screen just now. That combination of numbers was familiar to me. Even after so many years,

Rebecca is in A

came in, and it seemed to be very urgent. I looked on nonchalantly and did

your lunch. Wait for me to come back in the evening. We will

waved my hand, indicating for him to

She cut straight

and then asked,

“Yeah.”