In Love, Never Say Never

Seeing that it was already getting late, I told him. “Ashton, it’s time for bed.”

Ashton put down his phone. Just then, the corner of his mouth turned up in a small smile as he set his penetrating dark eyes on me.

I pursed my lips and looked at him. I had always found this smile of his far too charming to be real.

“Why are you smiling?”

His eyes lit up as he exclaimed, “I’m happy!’

Well, duh, but what about?

He didn’t elaborate anymore. And since I didn’t want to probe any further, I made my way to the bedroom.

The sound of footsteps behind me got closer, and I soon found myself in Ashton’s tight embrace. His voice was low and sensual as he whispered, “You’re so pretty when you nag.”

“Could you be any cheesier?” I mocked.

Seriously, though, why would anyone like to be nagged at?

Brushing away my sarcastic remark, Ashton cuddled me as we got into bed. He then moved his palm onto my lower abdomen and asked softly, “Does it hurt?”

I froze for a moment. I had genuinely forgotten about the pain I had to endure when it got to my time of the month. He actually remembered?

“Can’t believe you remembered

“I peeked at the memo on the

Oh… clever!

I thought about Hannah’s words, I turned around and met Ashton’s gaze. “Ashton,

faded.

Jared had mentioned that keeping the vasectomy clips in for a long time would be bad for the body. It might even result in infertility. I really had expected

Though that statement might not be entirely true, I just needed an excuse to get him to

as he said solemnly, “It’s

raised a quizzical

custody. Firstly, you’ve raised her for almost five years now. Secondly, we have good financial and social standings to continue to care for Summer. If I reversed my vasectomy and got you pregnant, Jared would then have better chances of getting custody of Summer should he

kept his emotions out of it, one could still hear

both parties had similar financial and social standings, it’d be a fair fight in the eyes of the law. Hence, I could lose

took my hand in his. “No hurry.

Even if Jared planned to fight for Summer’s custody, we didn’t have to use this as a means to stop him from doing so. In the worst-case scenario, I’d ask Louis for help. I was sure he’d have a

“Worried for

to do it soon. The older I

I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of having children. I

was to me. If I lost her, my condition might worsen too. That was why he could bear with not having children of his

forward to in our lives. Love felt forever only in