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.

Marcus brought me

be a long ride, but ten minutes after we entered

the door and left, so I hurriedly followed him. We entered

above the entrance. There were twelve clocks, each showing

elderly gentleman was examining an old watch using professional equipment carefully. He

As he took long strides, I had to dash to catch up

full of clocks, we finally arrived in a vast room. Bottles of red wine were lined up

momentary silence, the wall right in front of me move aside and revealed a door behind

lips parted in surprise when I realized the red wine wasn’t a decoration but the key

take hundreds of attempts for someone to get the right key. Besides, no one would pay attention to the red

daze when Marcus stepped into the secret space. I scurried after him at once while peeking at the

I forced myself to

son as soon as I entered, but an underground factory

second floor, and below us was an assembly line. There were workers dressed in silver protective suits handling unknown bottles on

“This way.”