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

Chapter 347

She turned to me and said, “When you see him later, do you intend to say hi?”

That was a strange question. “Why not?” I responded.

She shrugged. “Have you ever considered why they’re all in J City, but they lie to you about being in M Country?”

“Maybe they don’t want me to worry!”

“If that’s the case, what do you think their reaction would be when you appear out of the blue? I have an idea. Would you care to listen?”

“What do you have in mind?”

Stacey sat up straight and faced me. “You’ll see them tonight, but don’t go up to them first. Wait until tomorrow. I’m taking you somewhere to have the whole story sorted, and then we’ll deal with this calmly, alright?”

I was taken aback by what she said. It felt like she had overestimated the seriousness of the matter. I wanted to ask for more information but she silenced me. “Look, there they are!”

I looked in the direction she was pointing and saw two men, both about six feet tall, pushing a stroller as they talked.

There was some distance between us and them. I was a bit short-sighted anyway, so I could not make out exactly who they were but based on their silhouettes I could tell they were Nick and Jackson.

I really wanted to go over and talked to them, but Stacey stopped me. She urged me to call them on the phone first.

Alarmed, I took out of my phone. The screen showed some more missed calls from Ashton.

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off the plane and since then I had not

Mr. Fuller that you’re coming?” She said hesitantly after taking a peek at the number of missed calls on my phone

looked through the contacts for Jackson’s phone

went through to Jackson’s phone. From a distance, I watched him hesitate to pick it up. Nick muttered something to him,

it going?” Jackson answered

voice and said, “Hi, Jackson. Where are you? I’m

as well. We can celebrate

Scarlett. I’m afraid we can’t go. We’re still in M Country at the moment. It’s cold here. It’s not good for the baby, traveling back and forth. Maybe after the celebration, when it gets warmer. Then we can

standing not far away fed me with lies. The feeling was unbearable. Why is he lying to me? If I

“What

a moment’s silence again, before he said, “She’s at home. I’m outside right now and, if you don’t mind, I have stuff to do. I’m hanging up. See

without waiting for me to finish what I had to

for a while as I watched them walk further away, pushing the stroller ahead of them and talking between

I would have run up to them and demanded to know why he lied to

finally calmed down. I took a deep breath

I was confident that I could accept whatever would come my way. I had lost my baby, my relationship with Ashton had hit the rocks, and the same had

actually

me straight in the eyes and pursed her lips. “I suggest you give Mr. Fuller a call first. There are about one hundred missed calls

be calling me again when I peeked at my phone. In cases like this one, a fight would most likely ensue if

to turn it off. Then I looked at