Seeing that I had seen through his act, Ashton looked away in embarrassment and snapped, “That’s none of your business.”

He then placed his other hand on the steering wheel and took another drag of his cigarette. “Bear in mind that you’re just Scarlett’s substitute.”

Under a veil of the cigarette smoke, he drew a rather lonesome figure as if he had worn himself to a frazzle, trying to bear all the lies and deceptions in his life.

As he refused to say anything else, I had no choice but to stop pressing him for more information.

As the saying goes, you can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Moreover, with his personality, no one on earth could make him say something he refused to say.

An hour later, after he finished half a pack of his cigarettes, he finally started the car again and returned home.

Halfway through the journey, Gregory called and said he wanted a cake from the bakery we went to previously, so I asked Ashton to stop the car when we were passing by the mall.

When I was unfastening my seat belt, he said with a hint of contempt in his voice, “Why bother to get the cake by yourself? You can always get someone else to deliver it straight to the house.”

Nah, I can’t blame you for not knowing this. How could Ashton, the genius in the business realm,

I got out of the car and headed to the mall. Two minutes

up and saw Ashton’s chin. “Didn’t you think that this is a

me. “My

 This guy is

whipped around and deliberately walked faster, leaving him

liked happened to have just one left.

He gave me a perfunctory smile, put the cake into a take-out

not care much and took out

put away all the leftover desserts and pressed on

It’s for free?

seven? Isn’t it too

bakery to experience a commoner’s life? I had no other choice but to leave him a fifty on the counter before taking away the

thinking about the

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255