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.

and Cameron weren’t doing so well

good relations and decent financial capabilities. He must have pulled some strings to get the matter resolved for us without them asking us

smiled. “There’s a third member of

Household Register always been at R Province?”

“When we got married, Grandpa told me to move it over here. But I was thinking of Grandma.

raised an eyebrow. “Didn’t you

he was almost a grown man. The Stovalls found him at Grandma’s and took him

narrowed his eyes. “The Stovall family is influential

chose your grandmother out of

could be due to the circumstances at that time,” I replied, nonplussed. It was twenty years

the heir apparent of the Stovall family from K City, and a famous merchant in

about Grandma knowing old Mr. Fuller in the past. I did think that it was a coincidence. When she brought me out of R Province, she

did not think much of it at the time. Looking back at it now, however, it did seem strange. Grandma spent her entire life in a tiny county within

me. Now that Grandma was gone, I couldn’t find out about their

it. It’s cold outside, let’s hurry up and

may not like the sudden change,

a hectic day, we got home late to Peakville

car pulled up and I threw open 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

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