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

Chapter 372

I brooded for a good long while. “Isn’t Nick Cameron’s biological son?” I asked Ashton, breaking the silence.

It was obvious how much Cameron loves Rebecca. But she treated Nick completely differently. She was negligent and dismissive of him.

Ashton started the engine. With his eyes on the road, he grunted in acknowledgment. “When Nick’s father married Cameron, his birth mother had already passed away from an accident. He was in his early teens when Cameron became his stepmother.”

Early teens. He was old enough by then. Nick did not feel much affection towards Cameron as well.

“Why did Cameron invite all of us for a meal?” Logically, I would be the last person she wants to meet.

At a red light, Ashton pulled the handbrake and turned to me. “Are you still feeling a grudge?”

“What grudge?” I was startled.

“Towards Cameron and Rebecca?”

I bit my lip and glanced towards Summer, who was fast asleep. “Life is long, we have to move forward one way or another,” I answered evasively.

It wasn’t possible for me to stay where I was. The matter with Macy and the child was out of my control. What was within my control was the ability to make my peace with it.

Rebecca and Cameron weren’t doing so

had good relations and decent financial capabilities. He must

my household register and smiled. “There’s

Register always been

move it over here. But I

“Didn’t you and

grown man. The Stovalls found him at Grandma’s and took him away. I think his registration was created by his father under the Stovall

Stovall family is influential in

why John’s father chose your grandmother out of all

to the circumstances at that time,” I replied, nonplussed. It was twenty

acquainted with the heir apparent of the Stovall family from K City, and a famous merchant in J City. Scarlett, don’t you think that

think that it was a coincidence. When she brought me out of R Province, she told me that old

at it now, however, it did seem strange. Grandma spent her entire life in a tiny county within R Province. How on earth did she come to befriend a

thought about it, the more it gnawed at me. Now that Grandma was gone, I couldn’t find

about it. It’s cold outside, let’s

She may not like the sudden change, so Jackson and I agreed to have her at Peakville Estate by day and

a hectic day, we got home late to Peakville

the door, Ashton appeared to lift me up in his arms before I had the chance to react. He carried me all the way into the

of startled silence, I said, “Ashton, let me down. I can walk