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.

caught my eye. Three Makes

a wholesome book on his bookshelf. Since the book was

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

instinctively raised a hand to touch my

but he seemed to have understood it differently. He grinned from ear to ear

said. “A good love story makes the readers feel blissful as well. The characters have

when are you coming back to K City

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

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

me into his arms and

into him and replied cheekily, “I am

right next to my ear. “Glutton!” he commented. “I may need to go out for a while. I will ask Joseph to send over some food

flashed back to the number that I saw on his phone screen just now. That combination of numbers was familiar

mean Rebecca is

and it seemed to be very urgent. I looked on

to eat your lunch. Wait

nodded and waved my hand, indicating for him

to get a call from Rachel. She cut straight to the chase and asked, “Can we

asked,

“Yeah.”