In Love, Never Say Never

I raised my brow. “What is there to explain?”

“Your daughter’s identity and your relationship with Mr. Johnson,” she stated seriously.

I grinned. “It’s up to others however they want to perceive it.”

“If you don’t clear the air, they will think that their speculations are correct.” She started getting anxious.

I asked her, “Do you think that it’s true?”

She froze for a while and replied timidly, “It does feel like it’s a true story after hearing it umpteen times.”

I maintained my composure. “I like the environment here in R Province and brought Summer here to start our new life. I didn’t think much about it.”

“What about Summer’s father?” Abigail was a curious young girl.

The waiter served our food. “It’s rather late. Let’s eat and go back soon.”

She stopped asking me questions.

I buried myself with work when we got back to the office. Although it was a small hotel, my to-do list seemed endless, with me wearing two hats at the same time.

When I focused on my work, I would usually neglect the surroundings, be it a severe cough or a pin drop silence.

About ten minutes later, my shoulders felt tired. I got up and was about to fetch a glass of water.

As I turned, I was startled by the man behind me. “Since when did you get here?”

regretted the moment those words left my lips because the tone was too casual. It

cast a gentle gaze at me. “Go

my desk. A myriad of expressions showed up on my colleagues’ faces,

the glass from me and drank from the same spot I did. Someone coughed at the sight of

but did not voice my disapproval. I returned to my desk and attempted

interfere, Ashton waited quietly beside me until

you done?” he

I kept

want to have for dinner?” He asked outrightly as if he had not noticed the strange

did it on purpose. With this, I’m certain that the gossips will only get juicier about how flirtatious I

about time to get

these files contain all the information about the hotel’s operations in the

but passed them to me instead.

“Mr. Fuller and Ms. Stovall seem to have known each other for a very long

he say that

from my forehead to the back of my ear. “Yes,

including Colin. I could hear many gasped in disbelief. They were probably shocked to the

to be bothered by their reactions. He smirked when he noticed that I was glaring at him. “What’s wrong? As your husband

did it on

stiffened. I

heard from every nook and cranny in the office. “She’s Ashton’s

frenzy. Simultaneously, it also dismissed all sorts of rumors and

pretty sure Colin must have said something, which caused him