When There Is Nothing Left But Love (Ashton And Scarlett)

I nodded and pointed towards the hugging couple. I teased, “You’ve never told me about your past relationships.”

I paused as Rebecca abruptly came to mind. He did say that he had never loved Rebecca.

As we made our way through the crowds, he stuck closer to me and replied, “I didn’t date when I was younger.”

Shocked by his reply, I stared at him in disbelief. “No! You’re pulling my leg, right?”

“Back then, I was swamped with classes and essays every day. Grandpa also arranged for me to take extra law classes, so I basically didn’t have time for anything else.”

His explanation seems pretty reasonable. Pouting, I continued to prod him for an answer. “Didn’t you have any crushes then?”

His eyes bored into mine as he replied, “I had a crush on you the moment I saw you at J University.”

Stunned, I began to blush furiously.

We continued walking at a leisurely pace. Suddenly he asked, “Don’t you have questions for me?”

“What questions?” Confused, I stared back at him.

“A few days ago, Flora told me that there was a lipstick mark on my shirt. Why aren’t you asking me about it?”

I quickly recovered myself and said,

appeared to be deep in thought, though I didn’t have the mental energy to try and guess what

to the office, I waved goodbye to him and didn’t follow

me. “You go first. I’ll

him but merely smiled at him. I felt a twinge of regret at our somewhat anti-climactic

few steps before I turned and ran towards him, giving him a tight hug. I

“What’s wrong? You don’t want to

firmly around

replied, “Why don’t you stay

my arms. I straightened out his tie with a small smile on my face. “It’s fine, I’m going

is a luxury I can no longer afford. This is goodbye,

thought of taking a plane, but eventually decided on a

journey’s going to be tedious, but I’ll get to enjoy some

away from the station. I took out my phone, knowing it would be

texts are handy now when I can’t bring myself to utter

saying goodbye. I thought I’d recovered after returning from R Province. I thought I could stay by your side and have a happy life with you. But I should’ve known the world would be much more complicated than I

again. That stillborn baby cost me my dreams of bearing my own child. I can’t blame you, nor can I blame Cameron. You are the people

a painful fate? Maybe he was too eager to be my child and forgot to bring along some things with him in his rush. He fought so hard to meet me, yet I couldn’t save him in the end. Ashton, I hope you can forgive me for leaving like this yet again. And I hope that you can take care of

used to think that revenge could help us find peace, but I’ve come to realize that the only thing we gain in return is suffering. I don’t want to take revenge or wish ill upon anyone, so I’m turning in

speed. Pristine views of the countryside flew past in