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

Three days after Ashton and Joseph had left, the Facebook account of a news channel in Dartan announced that the country’s homegrown air-conditioner manufacturing company was in the final stage of acquiring Eisen Corporation. Ashton sounded enervated when he gave me a call in the evening.

“I supposed it wasn’t smooth sailing?” I asked.

“Yeah…” He let out a deep sigh. “I’m working things out on the other side. There might be a chance of turning the tables.”

“And what would that be?”

“You’ll get the details later on. It’s not the right time to talk about it yet. How are you feeling these couple of days? Any pregnancy sickness?” He curtly changed the topic.

Perhaps he needed some good news to counterbalance the bad ones that had been troubling the company recently. I was stunned momentarily before telling him that I had been fairly well and things were as usual. I felt sorry for him, though.

how he responded to feign indifference. “I thought your life would be upside down without me by your side. It seems

overestimated yourself.” I went with the flow

like my swagger had made him

acquisition of Eisen Corporation would bring in almost ten billion. Without it, it’d be an uphill climb for Fuller Corporation to launch other massive projects

what he wanted to say. “I’ll be back in a week the

the same thing again and again. Of course, I’d never forget that. “I know, I know. And how about you? Are you planning to bring back a few pretty ladies

can smell jealousy, Scarlett. Hahaha…” he teased and laughed

ladies that I

After hanging up, I threw the phone aside. My peripheral vision caught sun rays peeking through

villa had doubled. The surveillance was watertight to the extent where every possible

what Ashton said on the phone, chills started to crawl down