She looked fixedly at Ashton and let her tears rolled down her cheeks.

Indifferent to her tears, he put his wallet in his pocket, held my hand, and walked away.

As I trailed after him, a heart-wrenching wail came from behind. I glanced back and saw several people gathered around Rachel.

Even in an upscale nightclub, there would be all sorts of people hanging around, including shady characters.

With Rachel’s good looks and her revealing clothes, I was afraid that she might be in danger.

When we reached the exit, I stopped in my tracks.

Puzzled, Ashton turned around and looked at me. He did not look angry anymore. “What’s the matter?” he asked.

I pondered for a while before voicing out my concern. “Ashton, she needs someone to send her home.”

He frowned at my words. “Scarlett, she doesn’t deserve your sympathy.”

I could understand why he was angry with Rachel. It was because her harsh words had crossed the line and struck his nerve.

And I was where his threshold lay; he was enraged with her because of her disrespect for me.

I stopped him and said, “I don’t sympathize with her predicament, but Ashton, she’s a staff of the Fuller Corporation whom you had complimented during the annual general meeting. If anything happens to her, it might affect the company as well. We

pity her?

at first. If I had not heard what Isabelle had told me before, I probably would

I could not help but pity her. Besides, it was normal for her

going to be attracted to him. Besides, I’m sure that Ashton knows better than me in handling the women who

of silence, he let out a sigh and eventually complied. He called a bell boy over and gave out some instructions. Then, he turned to me and

held his

first. Instead, he turned towards me and locked his eyes on mine. “Scarlett, it

I asked,

“Rachel.”

that I know that you love me, and you care about me. So, I don’t really

me meaningfully. “You really trust

thirties now. That’s about one-third of our lives. We’ve gone through many things, and we have certainly learned our life lessons. For me, I have learned to take notice of

before starting the car and drove home. We did not speak for the rest of the

was nothing wrong with what I said in the car, but

to spend much time here. The

years later, I came back to this city again. No one had changed, except me; my state of mind was

late at night by the time we were back at the villa. After I switched off my phone and

he was still pressing ahead with his plan to sabotage it. Since the company had lost

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