In Love, Never Say Never

Knowing that he was fuming on the inside, I did not make him angrier anymore. When I returned to the bedroom, he was not around, and I was sure he must have gone to the study.

I then went to wash up in the bathroom. It had anti-slip tiles, so I usually took off my house slippers when I went in.

However, I somehow managed to slip and fall a few steps into the bathroom.

“Ah!” I shrieked in fear.

Bang! The bedroom door burst open to reveal Ashton, panting by the doorway. It seemed like he had rushed over.

When he saw me on the floor, he frowned as he lifted me up into his arms. “Are you hurt?”

“I sprained my ankle.”

He then reached out to pinch my ankle, and I could not help but gasp from the pain. “Ouch!”

“So you know it hurts?” he snarled. “Do you use your eyes to breathe?”

Pouting, I whispered, “How am I to know that the floor is so slippery. Who in their right mind would want to fall?”

He gave me a taunting look. “Who can you blame if you were the one to not watch where you were going?” After a pause, he continued, “What were you about to do?”

“Shower!” Why does he have such a terrible temper?

He placed me gently into the bathtub and filled the tub before coldly saying, “Do you need me to wash you?”

need!” came my

continued, staring at me apathetically. “It’s as if you’ve lost your parents-in-law when his

I-

kind of logic is

even connect

me in the past, and now that he’s having so many troubles. What’s wrong with me helping him a little? Have

baby. Now that he was facing such a tragedy and there was no one around him he could

out a laugh. “Do you have to help him in this way? Scarlett, do you think you’re the only one who knows how to repay a favor? Will

that’s the case, you could’ve found someone to take care of Rebecca, too.

moment. With an expression as dark as charcoal,

no need for that!” I was furious, too. “I can do

Are you planning to jump out of the

erupting like a volcano, but I did my best to tamp it down. “Get

could see that he was

Half an hour later…

water. I stood

a level of pain I could bear, so

pajamas, lotion, and essential oil. As I sat by the edge of the tub, I started applying the lotion on

hair, I knocked over the bottle of essential oil, and the glass

for a moment. Staring at the glass fragments by my feet, I could not help but frown at how inconvenient it would be for me to

mess would not clean itself, so that was what I did. Just as I

you a masochist?” he gritted out in a

naked. Promptly, I reached out to tug the pajamas to cover myself, but