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

Tessa paused for a moment and cried softly to add to the dismal topic. Her crying noises were low, but it was enough to make the atmosphere gloomy.

Although I couldn’t see Ashton’s expression, he was silent all the time, so I bet he could be paying attention.

Seeing how Tessa was just sobbing and didn’t continue, he took the initiative and asked, “Operating room?”

“Yes.” Tessa sobbed softly, “I didn’t know how to tell you. Everything in the operating room was terrifying, and it’s a total nightmare. They held us captive to make use of our bodies as transporting tools. It was agonizing when we were forced to queue up outside the operating room, waiting for our turn.”

She wiped her tears before continuing, “Scarlett stood up and begged them for mercy, so she got into trouble.”

I listened for a moment before doubting her thought process. Wait… So I got into trouble to save them?

Ashton commanded frostily, “Continue!”

The woman sniffled and said, “Scarlett could leave unscathed initially since she knew the Murphys. When the bad guys found us, they had decided to send her to the Murphys in Marsingfill. However, she didn’t leave, and when she knew they were going to carry out operations on us, she went to beg Abe…”

brows because her version of the incident was quite different from

continued listening to their conversation. The woman added, “Abe doesn’t like women and forced Scarlett to accompany three men. If

broke out in a cold sweat. When did those

noticed Scarlett was unwilling to go with you yesterday. She might feel guilty for

to Scarlett. He even got heavily injured when he saved her. Later on, he took us to Western

I didn’t run into you guys yesterday, I would have thought Scarlett

at a loss for words

returned to the table and saw me smiling coldly. She lowered her voice and asked, “What did

a faint smile, I said, “Nothing. I just heard a dramatic story, and it

whispered,

Getting up in my seat directly, I wasn’t going to

halted when she saw me walking past their table. Widening her eyes in surprise, she opened her mouth, but words never found their way out of

saw me, his

her version of the incident to make it seem like I had lost my purity. She was doing this to induce disgust in Ashton toward