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?”

There was

he sat beside me as Mrs. Eriksen fetched him a glass of water. He sipped quietly

turned to him and frowned. “Aren’t you here to lecture

lecture

I…

to get amused

him as he chuckled, “Do I look like I have nothing better

to watch how things will

yard. There was no doubt as

entered the villa. The gloom on his

and he instructed indifferently at me, “We’re going to the

“No!” I refused.

me as if he were trying to suppress his blazing emotions. “Get up,” he instructed. Then, he pulled me up off the sofa

me out to the yard. After

was Ashton’s seething anger, his hold tightened as

faintest tingle before numbness took over my wrist. I barked at him, “Let go of

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

blotches obnoxiously seeped across my bruised

it seemed as if he hadn’t intended to hurt me. He muttered,

gnawed on my lower lip. “It’s fine. It doesn’t

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 too far