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

Chapter 1628

 

Audrey and Gregory were ecstatic. “I heard that!”

“Me too! Daddy’s the best!”

Everything seemed like it was finally falling in place, and our life would become peaceful once more.

 

My hopes were shattered two days later. That afternoon, Joseph entered our house with an anxious expression on his face, tipping me off that I had been too naive about our situation.

“Go on. What’s wrong?” I was not in the greatest of moods at his arrival. My frustration grew at the problems that never seemed to leave us alone.

Sometimes, I wondered why people preferred havoc and chaos over a peaceful life.

 

“Nora met Shaun alone.”

 

Surprised, I asked, “Alone?”

 

made sure to keep Ms.

 

off, sighing at Shaun’s change of

been relieved at his choice at the Hall residence, yet three days was all it took for Shaun to change

children are

abused at the hands of his previous adoptive parents,

news. Rather expressionlessly, he flipped through the

watched Joseph’s departing figure and pursed my lips in thought. Sometime later, I turned to Ashton

meltdown, then?” He looked as unruffled as before. The ghost of a smile appeared on his face as his eyes pored through the financial news as if it was some piece of juicy gossip. “If I were in Nora’s shoes, I wouldn’t let

Shaun said no to them in the beginning.” Frankly, I was curious to understand how Ashton

gaze. “To a businessman, anything can lead to a deal. The only

grudgingly admitted the logic in his words, and I saw no point in arguing

“The people in the village are the ones scheming for profit. Shaun is just a kid, and we’ve

cross-legged position and placed the folded newspaper across his knees. “I bet that he’ll disappoint

not? Still, we can’t really let him pass on news about our family to Nora. Isn’t there a way for us to

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