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

After getting rebuffed, Ashton looked away and smiled wryly. “I know the answer. It is no surprise to me.”

I smirked. “Who do you think I will pick?”

“I know you won’t pick me.” Ashton shrugged as disappointment flashed across his face. “But Scarlett, you’ll be my only choice no matter what.”

It seemed like he was joking, so I didn’t know how to react.

Without waiting for my response, he climbed out of the window deftly. “See you tomorrow.”

He then jumped and disappeared into the night.

I went to the window and looked around, but he was nowhere to be seen. I waited a while longer before closing the windows.

The next morning, I woke up early.

Eager to see my son, I dressed up for the occasion.

breakfast, Marcus

ride, but ten minutes after we

hurriedly followed him. We entered a shop selling watches and

There were

walked past the counter, where an elderly gentleman was examining an old watch using

he took long strides, I had to dash to catch

of red wine were lined up on both sides of the walls, and there was a velvet couch

bottle of wine. After a momentary silence, the wall right in front of me move aside and revealed

surprise when I realized the red wine wasn’t

hundreds of bottles of red wine. It would take hundreds of attempts for someone to get the right key. Besides, no

still in a daze when Marcus stepped into the secret space. I scurried after him at once while peeking at the wine bottle

myself to remember the direction. If I were

son as soon as I entered, but an

in silver protective suits handling unknown bottles on the conveyor belt. I was too far to see what was

“This way.”