In Love, Never Say Never

Without looking at his expression, I straightened and went into my bedroom. In this world, no one would go out of their way to help someone else for no apparent reason. There had to be a motive. I was smart enough to know why Marcus treated me so well.

Sometimes, I wanted to continue feigning ignorance just so that I could stay. However, humans were complex beings. I couldn’t very well put on a facade forever, not to mention the current me couldn’t afford to be ignorant anymore.

“Scarlett!” He paused before asking in a low voice, “Have you ever… felt anything for me?”

His question stunned me, and my mind couldn’t formulate a response for a while. “I’m sorry, Marcus!”

A low laugh came from behind me. “Okay. I understand.”

His simple words carried a sense of heaviness.

Even so, there was nothing I could do about it.

I parted my lips, attempting to say something, but no words could escape.

Back in my bedroom, my chest tightened uncomfortably. Even after a whole night of tossing and turning, I still couldn’t fall asleep.

During the past two months, I never once thought about how I was going to spend the rest of my days.

Besides solving the matters between Ashton and me, there was also Marcus. I had no qualms accepting his meticulous care. In fact, I even enjoyed it. However, I seemed to have forgotten that there was nothing I could give him, and at the end of the day, he was the one who’d get hurt.

I was broken and beyond repair, so I shouldn’t drag him into my mess.

The night passed by so slowly that I thought the sun would never come up.

The next day.

night, my head buzzed with a

living room. Upon sensing my presence, he looked at

nodded, my gaze landing on the homey meal comprising of eggs,

sat across from each other., he remained silent and ate

his eyes, I asked without much thought, “Didn’t

gaze and replied tersely, “Eat more.” With that, he filled my plate with more

for a while but

my phone rang. When I felt Marcus’ eyes on me,

phone number was

my lack of reaction, Marcus raised his brows. “Aren’t

I placed it against my ear and waited

and help you with

open. True enough, the man was standing tall and proud

in a flat voice, then added, “I’ll meet you

a tone that matched mine. I guess this had always been the way

at me with pursed

at him and hesitated for a moment, knowing that he was in a

I didn’t know what else I could say. Since everything in the bedroom was arranged

him to walk out of the bedroom, but he abruptly grabbed my wrist. Before I could react, he grasped the

him. I hurriedly shoved him away and massaged my neck as anger simmered in me. “Marcus, I thought you

laugh. “You always see the

him,

of me, so I didn’t have the right to lecture or criticize him. Hence, I