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

He seemed slightly disappointed and sighed, “Mr. Fuller is doing his best.”

“I know. He’s always been doing his best, which is why I feel safe handing Summer over to him.” I nodded with a smile.

“Are you planning to let Summer stay with Mr. Fuller permanently, Ms. Stovall?”

I shook my head. “I’ll come and get her as soon as possible. I don’t want to trouble him for too long. Besides, he isn’t obligated to take care of Summer.”

“Then who is?” A sudden voice piped up and surprised me.

I turned back and saw Ashton standing behind me. His expression was dark and his gaze cold. “Armond? Or perhaps you’ve found another guy who’s obligated to take care of her?”

His sudden appearance took me by surprise. Joseph had silently walked away after Ashton showed up.

At that moment, only Ashton and I were left at the scene, and I didn’t know what to say.

After a pause, I finally piped up. “Thanks for taking care of Summer, Ashton.”

He chuckled coldly. “No need to thank me. Don’t forget that she’s legally my daughter after all. The moment we actually get a divorce, I am completely fine with paying my alimony, but don’t even think about getting Summer back.”

“Is that a threat?”

“You could say so.”

ruffled by his words. “That might be better for all of us. After all, she’ll be much better off with you than she can ever be with me. You have money and power. Besides that, you can give her a much better environment than I can. Maybe I’ll be better on my

he wasn’t trying to disguise the rage on his face. “What an

chuckled as well. “Thanks for the compliment,

I were a man, he’d probably be beating me up right now. Thank

you to marry into the Murphy family,” he hissed. He was probably holding back his anger.

walked away and left, I let out a huge sigh of relief. I really hoped we wouldn’t see each other anymore after this. Our relationship was already messier than tangled

until midnight. Armond wasn’t used to burning the midnight oil, so the moment we got into the car, he told me, “You take

thinking that he probably didn’t sleep well since

room. Once I turned my phone on, I saw the pictures that Emery had sent me of

adorably pink-cheeked and plump. I wanted to respond, but since

off my phone and

results of the Fuller Corporation’s public tender were released the very next day. After all,

Armond handed everything over to me and said, “You’ll be in charge of this project for now, and Linda will help. You can either go to her or me

gotten the chance to be that involved in this particular project. After all, only two days had passed from the moment

reach out for the files, but instead, I stared at him and said, “You know I barely know anything about this project. I didn’t even write the proposal myself. It’s not fair to the actual writer of

unmoved, he then placed the files on the desk instead and replied, “I wrote the proposal. Besides, there’s still some time before the start-up date of this project. You can familiarize yourself with the project in the meantime, and Fuller Corporation will be sending someone over to keep up with you on this.

moment, it seemed like he was dead set on me taking charge of this project. I knew that turning him down wouldn’t take

know,” he said. “Apart from us, they also chose the Cruise Corporation. So try your best to communicate with them as much as you can so

gathering the documents. I had