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?”

 

continuing, “They even made sure

 

sighing at Shaun’s

choice at the Hall residence, yet three days was all

guess children are

realized that Ashton’s earlier concerns were not wholly unfounded. Perhaps Shaun had never forgotten how he was abused at the hands of his previous

in the face of Joseph’s news. Rather expressionlessly, he flipped through the newspaper in

my lips in thought. Sometime later, I turned

smile appeared on his face as his eyes pored through the financial news as if it was some piece of juicy

“But Shaun said no to them in the beginning.”

a deal. The only obstacle

in his words, and

and teased half-heartedly, “The people in the village are the ones scheming for profit. Shaun is just a kid, and we’ve given him a home. Things

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

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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