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.

Cameron weren’t doing so well

It was credited to Ashton’s influence within J City. He had good relations and decent financial capabilities. He

at my household register and smiled. “There’s a

Register always been

to move it over here. But I was thinking of Grandma. She would be left alone if I

an eyebrow. “Didn’t you and

Stovalls found him at

“The Stovall family is influential in K

John’s father chose your grandmother out of all the

time,” I replied, nonplussed. It was

frowned and carried Summer to the car. “A lonely old lady in a forlorn county town was somehow 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 this is

think that it was a coincidence. When she brought me

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 man from

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

past. Forget about it. It’s cold outside, let’s hurry

thoughts towards the plan of moving with Summer to Peakville Estate. She may not like the sudden change, so Jackson

day, we got home late to Peakville

appeared to lift me up in his arms before I had the chance to react.

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