Ashton gave me a gentle caress on the back before staring blankly ahead as he said, “He doesn’t want any of those.”

His tone was calm, but I could feel the tension in his words and asked with a frown, “You mean… He just wants to destroy us completely?”

Ashton was quick to reject his own theory. “No, he has no reason to go that far. There are no unresolvable conflicts between us, nor do we owe him anything.”

The lighting in the car was really dim, and I couldn’t even make out his facial expressions unless he spoke.

After a moment of silence, Ashton sat upright all of a sudden and put the laptop aside before tracing a pattern on my palm.

“Do you know what I just wrote?” he asked after completing the pattern.

I was so distracted trying to figure out his emotions that I didn’t really pay attention to what he was doing. “Stovall?” I guessed as all I recalled were the letters “S”, “T”, and “O”.

“Correct,” Ashton said with a smirk before tracing another word on my palm.

This time, I paid attention and gave him my answer before he even asked. “Fuller, your family name.”

at me as he said, “Nope, that’s the wrong answer. I traced

I would get it wrong as I

as he continued tracing the third

he even made sure to slow down and traced the word in a neat and clean motion, so it was hard to get

learned from my mistake and waited till he traced

I’ve been tracing the same word I did before.” Ashton’s reply didn’t surprise me in

don’t get

said seriously, “The wrong answer isn’t always wrong. Remember the answers today, Letty. It’s going

was trying to hint at something, I took a moment to process

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