“Mm.” Ashton took the laptop from him and placed it on the desk.

Glancing at my watch, I realized there was five minutes left before the half an hour was up. “Gregory, it isn’t time yet. Why did you stop playing?”

Gregory shook his head. “I’ve finished my coding. I want to play with Audrey.”

He took Audrey’s hand and offered, “Do you want to play with me?”

Audrey hopped excitedly. “Yeah!”

They exchanged gazes and laughed merrily before heading to Gregory’s room. Soon, we could hear their giggling from afar.

Ashton’s voice rang out behind me. “Is something up?”

“Yes.” I met his gaze before walking in slowly and sat down in a chair against the wall. “Since you’re recuperating at home, we need to talk.”

for Joseph

outsider. He

Ashton turned and sat down in his chair. “You can begin

Lowering my head, I gathered my thoughts before looking up to

“What status?” asked Ashton.

and the Stovall family’s live-in son-in-law,” I raised my voice when I

He looked dazed for a moment before

words, so

and my brother can’t handle his business alone. I was thinking, why don’t you resign from your current position in Fuller Corporation? We can

question, Ashton narrowed his gaze and scrutinized me

“I’ve suffered from two miscarriages and taken countless hormone

logical and touching words I had

a ruse to trick Ashton, but I was telling

resolve was swaying, so I hurriedly pressed on, “No matter how unreasonable I am, you’d always understand and accept me. Ashton, you said that yourself. Even if you don’t trust me,

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