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.

feign indifference. “I thought your life would be upside down without me by your side.

overestimated yourself.” I went with the flow and trifled with

my swagger had

least he’s chuckling, meaning things weren’t that bad. The acquisition of Eisen Corporation would bring in almost ten billion. Without it, it’d be an uphill climb for Fuller Corporation to launch

to say. “I’ll be back in a week the most. Before

forget that. “I know, I know. And how about you? Are you planning to bring back a few

jealousy, Scarlett. Hahaha…” he teased

again. It’s the pretty ladies that I care about, not

up, I threw the phone aside. My peripheral vision caught sun rays peeking through the curtains. I got up and drew

that the number of bodyguards around the villa had doubled. The surveillance was watertight to the extent where every possible point of entry

chills started to crawl down my spine.