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.

mentioned that it was likely to snow again. After all, the city would experience a

snowed heavily on New

white snowflakes reflected light,

be precise, I could not get much sleep. “Do you

okay. Hey, it’s snowing outside. Be careful

he looked at the time before getting out of bed and

the meantime, I headed to the balcony. As it was snowing heavily, there was a thick blanket of snow covering the plants

a good idea

I took a whiff of the familiar scent and knew that it was

shoulder. “Summer is having her school holidays. Since we are too busy to spend time with her while she’s at home, we might as

felt uneasy at the thought of being apart from a child who had

of how Summer and I would be spending more time apart in the future popped into my mind. Feeling worse

for a second before he looked me in the

face grew hot, and I tried to avoid his eyes in embarrassment. Nudging him, I tried to

boss out there is afraid of turning up late for work?” Hugging me tighter, he planted a kiss on my cheek and

while, he finally got changed while I went to

coming up soon. Shouldn’t you try to finish your work as soon as possible? Didn’t you say that you were going to bring me out? If you keep doing this,

can go out with

was already awake because of the body

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