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

No hunter would allow himself to tremble in fear before his prey.

The first to fall in love had no choice but to surrender his heart and all.

Suddenly, Nathaniel threw me back onto the sofa. He seemed chagrined as he turned and refused to look at me. I felt pressured by his lurking presence. However, he said nothing, and I did not know what was going on in his mind.

There was no reason to discipline someone else. However, when there was an exception, that relationship was destined to be different.

Nathaniel seemed fine to be addressed as a disgusting rat, so Jackson was right. He had placed himself in a lower position than me. Perhaps he was coddling me. No matter what, I should add fuel to the fire now.

I slumped onto the sofa and twisted my body to show a few seductive poses. In a low voice, I mumbled, “Either you take my life, or you’ll have to endure similar scenes in the future. I want you to see how much I love Ashton. It could’ve been yours, but you rejected it.” Chuckling, I raised my voice to make sure he could hear each and every word clearly. “You were the one who avoided me and gave up!”

Nathaniel turned at his shoulder as though he had just heard a ridiculous joke. “I gave up? Does that mean you’re the one who decides whether I will get to love you? Am I a charity case?”

case was a rather degrading term, and it wasn’t what I meant. Alas, I had no choice but to go on. “I said nothing of the sort, but I wanted to treat you and Ashton fairly. You were the one who hid away from me. You know I love him dearly, so I couldn’t control

one was with someone, the

my own wishful thinking, besides Nora, I should be the only person of the opposite sex that Nathaniel had spent the most time with. I

hands swiftly when I tried to struggle and flipped

cheek next to mine, he warned, “You’d

all out. “I’d rather end

carrying out an order. “You want to treat

arrogant as Nathaniel would be foolish enough to connect one’s body

sneered, raised my chin, and prepared to end myself by biting on my tongue hard. I wanted to show him how stubborn I was. He could never win my heart or mess around with my

my plan. He couldn’t wait to vent his lust, so after