He’s back?

“When did he get back?”

“Around five o’clock.”

I wasn’t sure whether to cry or to laugh from the sheer absurdity.

If he had come back so early, it meant that he was anxious to have dinner with me, as was written on the note. If he had never once come upstairs to the bedroom, it meant that he still felt resentful.

Forget it.

I smiled weakly at Flora. “You guys go ahead. I’m not hungry.”

Maybe it would be easier on both of us if we didn’t see each other.

Flora opened her mouth as if to say something, but kept quiet and went back downstairs.

I went back to the bed and stared at the ceiling, trying to fall asleep but to no avail.

The room gradually grew darker and darker as I stared blankly into space.

The bedroom door swung open, and I instantly shut my eyes closed. I heard heavy footsteps and breathing, and I knew it was him.

There was the sound of water coming from the bathroom as I kept my eyes shut, knowing that he had just exited the bathroom.

He sat down on his side of the bed. I assumed that he was going to sleep in the study tonight.

the mattress shift below me and heard the sound of the

breathing slowly filled the

fall asleep, but by the sound of Ashton’s soft breathing, I guessed that he was deep

opened my eyes, freezing in place when my

a word out of my mouth when he reached forward and wrapped me in his embrace. “Flora said that you threw up your breakfast this morning, and that you didn’t eat anything for the rest of the day,”

hungry,” I argued, my body

dark eyes looked like they were staring into my soul. “Scarlett, I’m a man. You can’t blame me for

talking about

I nodded silently.

to me, pressing his face into the crook of my neck as

small of my back, slowly but surely working the stiffness out of my body. “What did Marcus tell you at Emery’s wedding?” I

about the baby, then you can ask me. No matter what it

girl.” He raised his head and kissed the corner of my mouth. “That was in the past. As long as

talking for fear that the pain would eat both of us

that night listening to his

for Ashton to do anything romantic. When I came to the next day, there was a large bouquet of

card placed carefully among the flowers: Eat your meals. Wait

a home, the person will always return no matter how far they

setting the card down and crawling out of bed to wash up. Downstairs, Flora

didn’t want to eat it, but Ashton was probably going to call Flora to check if I had eaten

little bit of

out, Flora scurried after me. “Are you

I nodded.

she said, “May I ask where you’re going? Mr. Fuller said to inform

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