I was momentarily dumbstruck. Who was he referring to?

“What?”

Without saying anymore, he lowered his head and kissed me deeply. It was as though he wanted to swallow me alive.

He was being moody.

I noticed it when we were at the hotel. But, why?

I thought he was tired from work. But now, he didn’t seem to be tired at all.

In the bathroom’s permeating heat, his raging desire was full-on.

“Ashton!” I said, but he had already lifted me up in his arms.

He stopped his movements altogether. He stared at me with his dark eyes, and he was breathing heavily.

I was obviously bewildered.

“Are you angry?” I asked cautiously.

He looked at me with narrow eyes, but his gaze was soft and gentle as always.

“You don’t want to do it?” he asked hoarsely. His voice sounded restrained.

want it. But

his arms around me. With a low voice, he said,

arms, he headed straight to the

for me to sleep

fall asleep. My heart ached as I lay

Ashton groaning in pain. I

was sweating profusely. With a frown on his face, he kept

having

woke him up.

it was me, he wrapped his arms tightly around me and said in a low and hoarse

then I reached out my hand to comfort him. “I’m not

wiped the sweat from his forehead. I asked, “Did you

deep, shaky breath. “There’s nothing but darkness. You’re all

four years, I had Summer, who helped mend my broken heart. But he was suffering in the dark all by

him, I huddled into his arms. “I won’t go anywhere as long as you need me. I’ll forever

that had sunk to the bottom of the sea. We needed each other to endure the darkness that engulfed

in the middle of the night, I was always surrounded by bleakness. It was as though you never existed in my life. Sometimes I wondered if I made you up and you were just an imaginary character because I was too lonely. The villa in J City always felt empty whenever I went there. I would then go to the cemetery to visit

heart ached as I took his hand in

continued, “Scarlett, Grandpa taught me how to thrive in the world of business and taught me how to face my enemies. But he never taught me how to love

head as tears fell from my eyes. “I

seven years, I had accepted my life the way

didn’t love

didn’t fake a miscarriage to

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