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

Chapter 1458

Then again, I would never compliment him, but neither would I dare censure him.

After all, I wouldn’t want to provoke someone as vindictive as Ashton.

Even though I held my tongue, he wasn’t about to let me off that easily. “Ms. Stovall, you were the one who wanted me to behave myself, yet you’re now hugging me so tightly.”

He leaned in even closer and looked into my eyes. “Aren’t you being a little hypocritical here?”

As if he wasn’t annoying enough, he even had to emphasize the word “hypocritical.”

The entire process had felt like an eternity to me, but it couldn’t have been more than a minute. I doubt Gregory had seen or heard everything that transpired.

Even if he had, at his age, the boy probably wouldn’t have understood any of it.

True enough, Gregory was still waiting by the side and waving his little hands. “Ms. Stovall, I want a hug too.”

He looked and sounded so sweet and innocent that my heart immediately softened.

hand, had such a smirk on his face that I

Gregory was an

it, the angrier I got. Without any care for how I looked, I mustered up all my strength to wriggle out of Ashton’s embrace. Once I

just to irritate Ashton. I then held my head up high and strutted toward my

want you to hug me the way you did with Ms.

Ashton asked

“Yes! Ms. Stovall! Hug!”

sure?” Ashton asked with a lilt

father meant and exclaimed, “Not Ms.

up. The hallway filled with Gregory’s laughter as they

my heart to hear them having so much fun, and I couldn’t help but smile

on my bed, I thought back on the documents I had read earlier. The more I thought about them, the more restless I

became so bad that I decided to give Emery a call. Hopefully, she could be the

me having taken the initiative to call her.

as calm as possible. “I have something I need

I’ll tell you

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