In Love, Never Say Never

I brooded for a good long while. “Isn’t Nick Cameron’s biological son?” I asked Ashton, breaking the silence.

It was obvious how much Cameron loves Rebecca. But she treated Nick completely differently. She was negligent and dismissive of him.

Ashton started the engine. With his eyes on the road, he grunted in acknowledgment. “When Nick’s father married Cameron, his birth mother had already passed away from an accident. He was in his early teens when Cameron became his stepmother.”

Early teens. He was old enough by then. Nick did not feel much affection towards Cameron as well.

“Why did Cameron invite all of us for a meal?” Logically, I would be the last person she wants to meet.

At a red light, Ashton pulled the handbrake and turned to me. “Are you still feeling a grudge?”

“What grudge?” I was startled.

“Towards Cameron and Rebecca?”

I bit my lip and glanced towards Summer, who was fast asleep. “Life is long, we have to move forward one way or another,” I answered evasively.

It wasn’t possible for me to stay where I was. The matter with Macy and the child was out of my control. What was within my control was the ability to make my peace with it.

Rebecca and Cameron weren’t doing

City. He had good relations and decent

and smiled. “There’s a third

always been at

Grandpa told me to move it over here. But

“Didn’t you and John create

grown man. The Stovalls found him at Grandma’s and took him away.

eyes. “The Stovall family is influential in K City. Have you ever thought about why John’s father chose your grandmother out of

due to the circumstances at that time,” I replied, nonplussed. It

to the car. “A lonely old lady in a forlorn county town was somehow acquainted with the heir apparent of the Stovall family from K City, and a famous merchant in J City. Scarlett,

that it was a coincidence. When she brought me out of R Province, she told me

Looking back at it now, however, it did seem strange. Grandma spent her entire life in a tiny county within R Province. How on earth did she come to befriend a man from a powerful

me. Now that Grandma was gone, I couldn’t

about it. It’s cold outside, let’s hurry up and bring Summer home,” Ashton

may not like the sudden change,

day, we got home

threw open the door, Ashton appeared to lift me up in his arms before I had the chance to react.

startled silence, I said, “Ashton, let me down.