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

was surprisingly easy. It was credited to Ashton’s influence within J City. He had good relations and decent financial capabilities. He must have pulled some strings

household register and smiled. “There’s

Household Register always been at R Province?” He suddenly

it over here. But I was thinking of

raised an eyebrow. “Didn’t you and

us, he was almost a grown man. The Stovalls found him at Grandma’s and took him away. I think his registration was

is influential in K

why John’s father chose your grandmother out of

I replied, nonplussed. It was twenty years

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,

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

strange. Grandma spent her entire life in a tiny county within R Province. How on earth did she come to befriend a man from a powerful family

more it gnawed at me. Now that Grandma was

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

my thoughts towards the plan of moving with Summer to Peakville Estate. She may not like the sudden change, so Jackson and I agreed to have her at Peakville Estate by day and at Glenwood at

a hectic day, we got home late to

rather tired. When the car pulled up and I threw open the door, Ashton appeared to lift me up in

several moments of startled silence, I said, “Ashton, let me down. I can walk on my