Oh dear, I shouldn’t have mentioned his name. It looks like John hasn’t visited her in a while.

Without asking any further, I reminded her to take care of herself before hanging up.

Ashton held my hand and reassured me, “Don’t brood over it. Have a good rest when we get home, alright?”

I nodded. Then, I looked at him and commented, “In books, it often portrays that a man would do anything for the woman he loves. Why don’t I see that happening in real life?”

John liked Hannah. After so many years with her by his side, he was already used to her company. Yet, why did he have to leave her to fend for herself when she was in her most vulnerable state?

Did he not know that an emotional wound hurt more than a physical one?

With one hand on the steering wheel, Ashton gave me a side glance. He challenged, “Hmm, although there are ghosts and gods in books, do we see them in reality?”

I shook my head.

Chuckling softly, Ashton emphasized his point. “Well, it shows that we can’t trust everything in books.”

Feeling resigned, I kept quiet.

It was late in the night by the time we returned to the villa.

likely to snow again. After

it snowed heavily on New Year’s

reflected light, and it brightened the

up early the next morning, but to be precise, I could not get much sleep. “Do

snowing outside. Be careful when

before getting out of bed and

it was snowing heavily,

did not seem like a good idea to go

I took a whiff of the familiar scent and knew that it was Ashton. Turning to

gently rested his chin on my shoulder. “Summer is having her school holidays. Since we are too busy to spend time with her while she’s at

he was right, I still felt uneasy at the thought of being apart from a child

popped into my mind. Feeling worse than before, I peaked at Ashton and muttered, “Ashton, let’s have another child. Can we

in the eye and smirked. “Sure! We

avoid his eyes in embarrassment. Nudging him, I tried to change the

is afraid of turning up late for work?” Hugging me tighter, he planted a kiss on

in his arms for a while, he finally got changed while I went to wash up. Even after I was

as soon as possible? Didn’t you say that you were going to bring me out?

laughed, “I can go out with you any

already prepared breakfast, and Summer was already awake

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