In Love, Never Say Never

God, I was so blind. I perceived his duplicated kindness as a genuine love for me. I never once thought of this. If anything bad happened to Rebecca, he would always choose her.

Seeing my silence, Sally knew that no amount of lecturing would get to me anymore. A soft sigh slipped from her lips. She headed to her bedroom for a change of clothes before leaving the house.

Thoughts engulfing me whole, I stilled for some time before getting up to leave. Mrs. Eriksen, who stayed with me, immediately got up to stall. “Letty, where are you going?”

“The hospital.”

She hurriedly blocked the door. “No, don’t! Mr. Ashton and the Moore family are most likely furious with you, so it’s not wise to go there now. Come, let’s stay here, okay? We’ll deal with things once everyone calms down.”

At her request, I sank back down onto the sofa and buried my face into my palms. The villa became abnormally quiet, save for the drums pounding in my head and heart.

Endless confusion weighed down the air around me.

After a while, footsteps drew closer in the villa. Mrs. Eriksen’s voice sounded, “Dr. Crest. Why aren’t you at the hospital?”

A huge shadow shaded over me. Irritation prickled under my skin as I looked up to see Jared’s slender figure standing in front of me. A distant and indifferent frown etched on his face.

I glanced at the blood on my hands then warned, “Please hire a lawyer if you’re here to accuse me of what happened. I’m in a very bad mood right now, so I can’t guarantee whether I will have an emotional episode and start assaulting you.”

Jared…

He looked at me with profound impotence. Some seconds slipped past before he finally challenged, “There are no knives here. How exactly do you plan to attack me?”

lips pursed in sizzling annoyance. There was nothing more to

me as Mrs. Eriksen fetched him a glass of water. He sipped quietly with no intention of continuing our

and frowned. “Aren’t you here to

and questioned back, “Why should I lecture you? It’s

I…

get amused at my

him as he chuckled, “Do I look like I have

So he’s just here to watch how things

the yard. There was no doubt as to whose it

villa. The gloom on his face emitted a dangerous warning, saying that

indifferently

“No!” I refused.

suppress his blazing emotions. “Get up,” he instructed. Then, he pulled me

the yard. After shoving me

Rebecca had already been rushed into the ER. Perhaps it was Ashton’s seething anger, his hold tightened as his fingers

I barked at him, “Let go of me! If she

he looked back at me and realized how roughly he gripped onto me. Then, his fingers finally slid

and yellow blotches obnoxiously seeped across my

frown. For a moment, it seemed as

my lower lip. “It’s fine. It doesn’t

and his lips clamped shut to steady the anger inside him. “How could you, Scarlett? No matter how much you hate her, she’s already lost a child. She’s already been punished. You’ve gone