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

Seeing that it was already getting late, I told him. “Ashton, it’s time for bed.”

Ashton put down his phone. Just then, the corner of his mouth turned up in a small smile as he set his penetrating dark eyes on me.

I pursed my lips and looked at him. I had always found this smile of his far too charming to be real.

“Why are you smiling?”

His eyes lit up as he exclaimed, “I’m happy!’

Well, duh, but what about?

He didn’t elaborate anymore. And since I didn’t want to probe any further, I made my way to the bedroom.

The sound of footsteps behind me got closer, and I soon found myself in Ashton’s tight embrace. His voice was low and sensual as he whispered, “You’re so pretty when you nag.”

“Could you be any cheesier?” I mocked.

Seriously, though, why would anyone like to be nagged at?

Brushing away my sarcastic remark, Ashton cuddled me as we got into bed. He then moved his palm onto my lower abdomen and asked softly, “Does it hurt?”

I froze for a moment. I had genuinely forgotten about the pain I had to endure when it got to my time of the month. He actually remembered?

laugh. “Can’t believe you remembered even though you’re so busy

smiled faintly. “I peeked at the memo on the

Oh… clever!

turned around and met Ashton’s gaze. “Ashton, shall we go to the doctor tomorrow and remove the

smiled faded. “What’s

body. It might even result in infertility. I really had expected Ashton to get them removed earlier. But so many years had passed, and he still hadn’t shown any

that statement might not be entirely true, I

narrowed his gaze as he said solemnly, “It’s

I raised

hasn’t fought for Summer’s custody. Firstly, you’ve raised her for almost five years now. Secondly, we have good financial and social standings to continue to care for Summer. If I reversed my vasectomy and got you pregnant, Jared would then

though he kept his emotions out of it, one could still hear a

financial and social standings, it’d be a fair fight

hand in his. “No hurry.

we don’t have to try for a baby immediately.” Even if Jared planned to fight for Summer’s custody, we didn’t have to use this as a means to stop him from doing so. In the worst-case scenario, I’d ask Louis for help. I was sure he’d have a way to deal with

“Worried for

we want children, we ought to do it soon. The older I get, the more dangerous a high-risk pregnancy would be. If you lose both mother and child from that,

weren’t entirely true, but I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of having children. I knew he chose not to

important Summer was to me. If I lost her, my condition might worsen too. That was why he could bear with not having

look forward to in our lives. Love felt forever only in the present moment, and