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

On the chessboard, Ashton was down to his last few pieces. Gazing at me, he asked in a gentle tone, “What are your plans for this afternoon?”

“I don’t have any plans,” I replied. Then, I attacked his knight.

He didn’t seem to mind and openly surrendered to me.

Emery walked away, probably tired of witnessing Ashton’s obvious submission. Meanwhile, Cameron stood by the side and rebuked, “Didn’t I tell you both to visit the aquarium in the North District today? Summer has been going on about it for a long time.”

“That’s a good idea. The weather today is suitable for an outing,” Ashton answered with a nod.

I refused flatly, “I can’t. I’m busy.”

Both Cameron and Ashton looked at me, and the former asked quizzically, “Busy with what?”

My eyes stayed focused on the board and I only lifted my gaze after taking Ashton’s king. “Didn’t I tell you I’ll be visiting Uncle Louis today? I haven’t seen Hannah for a long time too. I wanna see her baby.”

Cameron was momentarily taken aback, but she managed to squeeze out a smile. “But Mr. Fuller is here. It’s a good time to take Summer out to play.”

“Oh.” I paused, then countered, “But I’ve already called my brother and made dinner plans with him tonight.”

Trying hard to patch things up between Ashton and me, Cameron proposed, “Well, that’s great too. You can all go together. Summer has never seen Hannah’s baby. Since Summer likes babies, I think it’s a good idea to-”

and play with Xavier. He’s a baby too and she likes him. It might be troublesome to bring her along. It’s better

then, Summer bounded down the stairs barefooted and ran toward me. “Mommy, Uncle John

Speak of the devil…

soon as I answered the call, his voice drifted across the

see you’re well-informed,” I

course. Let’s have dinner together tonight. I haven’t seen you in such a long time. I miss

to

a while before clarifying, “I meant

pursed my lips,

I speculated, “Did you

the two of us?” From his grumpy tone,

“Fine. You pick the place and time,

agreed and hung

change, but she wanted me to help her. Seeing as she wasn’t a baby anymore, I turned her down. To my chagrin, she ran to Ashton, hugged him, and started acting all

to unpack my things since I probably had to stay here for the next

back to A City and continue working on the Lavelian Village project. I didn’t bring much of my own belongings back with me and the large suitcase was actually for all the cute toys I bought

I noticed that the bed was still unmade. After tidying up the bed slightly, I arranged my skincare products on the dressing

was Summer and lectured, “Summer, you need to make it a habit to make

at home, she needed to learn how to do these things on her own because not

response, I frowned and glanced behind