In Love, Never Say Never

I was still recovering from the shock of what had just happened. My entire body felt completely numb.

Jared continued chattering next to me, but I didn’t register a single word he said. When Cameron and Zachary arrived in the room, Jared turned to look at me with a rather complicated expression on his face.

Cameron was the first to open his mouth. “Are you alright?”

I looked up at them and said in a dull tone, “If the both of you want to file a lawsuit against me, please go ahead.”

Cameron shook her head frantically. “No, we’re here to take a look at you! Ms. Stovall, you…”

Zachary interrupted her impatiently. “Alright, you’ve seen her. Let’s go and visit Rebecca now! This matter is over as far as I’m concerned.”

Jared helped me to bandage my wounds. As he gazed darkly after their retreating backs, he said with a frown, “I suppose the Moore family won’t be filing a lawsuit against you, then.”

Truthfully, I wasn’t afraid of what they might do to me. I bowed my head and stared at the wound on my arm.

Looking up at Jared again, I asked, “Nothing will happen to Ashton, right?”

He burst into laughter. “He didn’t sustain injuries to his lungs, so he’s fine. He’ll be alright after a few stitches, don’t worry about it.”

I nodded, still feeling a little uncertain.

Ashton jumped down from his hospital bed after the stitching and said to me, “Come on, let’s go home!”

exclaimed. “You’ve just come out of the operating room, and

the morning now. Mrs. Eriksen and Sally had returned to the villa. Jared and Joe went home, too. As

remained in the hospital with Ashton. When he tried to sneak out against doctor’s

frown, he demanded,

been bandaged and were healing well, but I felt my heart ache just looking at them. “Lie down on your

next to him on the bed. “Lie here with me, or we’ll go home right

a sick person. Besides, I was pretty tired. To his delight, I lowered myself into his bed, trying to put as much distance between us

to me and wrapped his arms around my

I had been holding

me in the future. I don’t

chin up and looked deeply at me. “Does

a kiss on

he pushed me away lightly and mumbled, “Alright, that’s enough.

Since I had started it, I couldn’t possibly stop right now. Avoiding his injury, I buried my head in

now. “Scarlett, stop fooling around. We’re at

face with kisses, I lay my head against his chest and

still at the hospital, you know. If you want to make out, we

and continued sobbing against his chest. Haplessly, he tried to console me. “Do you really want to

We can make out as much as you want when we get home. It’s a little

Ashton was so handsome that God was so unfair. In a rather hoarse voice, I said, “Ashton, don’t do this again in the future, alright? I’m n—not worth putting

words. In a deep, restrained voice, he replied, “You’re completely worth