In Love, Never Say Never

In love, never say never chapter 596

Ashton nodded. “Are you hungry?”

I suddenly felt as though he was the one taking care of me instead of the other way round.

I parroted his question back to him. “Are you hungry?”

Cameron stirred in her sleep and woke up. She stared at Ashton and I for a few seconds before looking at the time on her phone.

Seeing that it was already past noon, she got up and poured me a glass of water. “Here, drink something. Your father went home to make lunch. He should be back any minute.”

I froze for a moment before taking the glass of water from her. I turned to Ashton and asked, “How are you feeling? Do you feel any better?”

He nodded. “It doesn’t hurt as much anymore.”

Cameron got up and headed to the toilet. When she came back out, she wiped her hands on a paper towel and asked, “What do the both of you fancy for lunch?”

Ashton shook his head, expressing his indifference. He turned to me and asked, “Do you have anything you want to eat?”

I thought for a while before shrugging. “Anything’s fine!”

Off the top of my head, I couldn’t think of anything I really wanted to eat.

Cameron picked up her bag and left the room. My phone, which I had neglected since coming into the hospital, rang loudly all of a sudden. Emery was calling me.

She sounded rather sharp over the phone. “How are you doing? Are you feeling alright? Which hospital did they send you to?”

Faced with her barrage of questions, I felt rather confused. After a short pause, I replied, “I’m fine. I’m at a hospital in W City right now. I’ll only make my way back to K City in a few days.”

Emery snorted loudly before saying, “I know you’re in W City. I was asking which hospital you’re in.”

“I’m in Medwin Hospital. Is there something wrong?”

“I’ll be coming to look for you in a short while. Have you eaten yet?”

I felt rather stunned. Shooting a glance out of the window, I stammered, “When did you arrive in W City?”

“I just got off the plane, as a matter of fact. Let’s talk more later. Send me the hospital address via text, won’t you? I’ll be there very soon.” She hung up the phone immediately.

Ashton looked at me and smiled. “Was that Emery?”

I nodded and put my phone away. “She’s heavily pregnant now. I don’t think we should let her run around the city in her condition—it won’t be safe for her.”

Agreeing with me, he nodded. “Go and pick her up, then. Be careful.”

I nodded and called the nurse over to change his bandages. With that, I turned and left the hospital.

Emery insisted that she would be taking a cab to the hospital and told me not to go and pick her up. However, I still felt a little worried for her. I called a cab for her and personally told the driver where to drop her off, before making arrangements for a room at our hotel.

Thankfully, the hospital wasn’t far from the airport. Emery arrived half an hour later and stowed her luggage away at the hotel first.

Although she was wearing maternity clothes that were loose and drab, it was quite obvious that her stomach had swollen alarmingly.

As she put her clothes away in the drawers, she turned to me and asked, “It’s going to be new year’s eve soon, and it has started to snow heavily in K City. Are the both of you going to celebrate the new year in W City?”

I sighed gently. “We haven’t actually decided yet. Ashton is heavily injured, so he might have to stay here and recuperate for some time.”

Emery finished putting her clothes away and shot me a side glance, looking rather solemn. “The Crest family has been throwing their weight around for years. It’s time somebody put them in their place.”

“The Crest family didn’t hire a man to do it—it was Jared Crest himself. He never really got over the incident with the Fullers’ youngest daughter, and Macy leaving him proved to be the last straw for him. He was very mentally unstable.”

Emery sat down on the sofa and sighed heavily. “Gosh, that guy is a mess. What else does he have to live for? Most grudges are best left in the past or resolved—otherwise, you start going crazy and harming everyone around you.”

I bowed my head and mulled over her words. Life was full of twists and turns. How could Emery be so sure in her judgment that Jared’s actions were wrong?

Seeing me remain silent, she asked, “What did the Crest family say about this matter?”

I shook my head despondently. “I’m not sure, actually. Ashton seems to have no intention of investigating the situation further. Instead, he passed on the case to the police—Jared will probably be rotting in prison for the next few years.”

Emery frowned and said rather sadly, “If I remember correctly, he should be about thirty-five or six now. He’ll be in his forties by the time he’s released from prison. Since he’s a member of the Crest family, there will be a great deal of talk about him.”

I pressed my lips together tightly, unsure of how to reply.

We chatted for a while longer. Since it was rather late at night, I thought Emery might want to rest in her hotel room first. However, she insisted on following me back to the hospital to take a look at Ashton.

Truthfully, I wasn’t so sure about leaving her alone in the hotel. I agreed to her request immediately.

We arrived in the hospital, where Zachary and Cameron had already laid out dinner for us. It was still the same old soup, but they had made other dishes as well.

Seeing Emery and me, Zachary turned to Emery and scolded, “Why are you running around the city when you’re so heavily pregnant? Are you trying to make all of us worried about you?”

In a rather mischievous tone, Emery replied, “I’m only a few months into my pregnancy! I can still walk around outside if I feel like it, you know. When my stomach gets too big, I’ll make sure to sit quietly at home and mind my own business.”

Zachary shot her a look and didn’t say anything else.

Cameron laid out the plates and looked at me. “Come and sit down. Let’s have dinner first—we can talk about other matters later.”

Zachary pursed his lips. He turned to Emery again—instead of yelling at her, he told her to finish her food and return to the hotel immediately.

A few moments later, Hunter arrived, claiming that he was too worried to let her run wild around the city by herself.

The two of them seemed to be fighting. Like a couple who was having a lover’s quarrel, they made snide remarks to each other throughout dinner and left quickly.

Cameron and Zachary refused to let me watch over Ashton by myself anymore and insisted on staying behind with me.

Left with no other choice, I agreed reluctantly. They could do whatever they pleased.

Thankfully, the hospital room was large enough, and there were even a few sofas in addition to the bed. However, with so many people around, I didn’t feel as comfortable as I would be at home.

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toilet in the middle of the night proved much easier. If I happened to be asleep,

night, and when I woke up the next morning, Zachary and Cameron had already returned to the

had slept very well that night, and it showed on my face. After the doctor cleaned off the rotting flesh, the skin on Ashton’s back had nearly healed

again, but Hunter felt too worried to let her come by herself. Besides, it was nearly new year’s eve, and he didn’t want to deal with the airport crowd that

all managed to get Emery

Cameron remained in W City. With them around, I was relieved of much of my caregiving duties and felt

death. Apparently, an investigation into the Crest family’s business activities in W City revealed all sorts of business malpractices they had been involved in. As a result, their

high-end sort of enterprise, their products faced huge demand because everyone needed those products. The Crest family had established a monopoly in the industry in the past ten years, and almost all the daily items lining the shelves of supermarkets were produced in

demand for their goods. This was where most of their immense wealth

and Commerce immediately. Once that happened, the entire supply chain collapsed in a domino effect, causing a barrage of problems to descend upon

from W City had been looking to break into supply production for the military. The moment the Crest family’s business ran into problems,

Old Mr. Crest had died

prison, and now their patriarch was dead. In a span of a few days, the Crest family

to change masters,” Cameron mused. She walked over to me

to admit that Cameron had a pretty good

“What plans do you and Ashton have for the

a little startled. Honestly, I was rather confused as

in my eyes, she continued, “Both of you are in your thirties, and you are no longer young. As much as you love Summer, she isn’t your biological daughter. Haven’t you considered having one of your

was zoning out a little. She had said something to this effect to me

company of others, and

she was right. “We can talk about this again when Ashton recovers from

looking more cheerful. “Good! In the future, your father and I can look

fingers tightened around the glass as I felt a rush of warmth in my heart. Honestly, this felt rather

and I would raise Summer and our child together and lead out the rest of our

corridor and into the room. Cameron got up and said, “You can return to the hospital room first. I’m going to ask the doctor if they can discharge Ashton earlier or transfer him to a hospital in K City. Since it’s the festive season soon, let’s try and get

returned to the

the door. He sounded very serious. “There’s no real need for you to

was directed

thick but indifferent. “You might have ties to the Crest family, but what’s that

previous glory after

when you joined forces with Jared to take

stunned. Had Ashton really tried to do something to the

the past. If you’re going to bring that up again, I have nothing more to say to

cruel in his reply. “When you swapped Scarlett’s DNA back then, you were already planning on taking down the Moore family, weren’t you? You got Jared to strike up a fake alliance with my wife, pretending that they would work together to defeat you. However, Jared betrayed my wife and stole the Moore family’s information from her. You were so against Scarlett becoming a member of the Moore family then because you didn’t want to implicate her when you took down our family, right? If that

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froze on the spot and the memory of the messages Stacey showed me surface in my mind. Jared and Cameron had indeed been up to

were about Jared and Cameron teaming up to vent their

help but take a step back as I stared at the men in the ward. They were both people from the business circle. There was no way I

indifferently, “The Moore family might be formidable in K City but it’s not enough to have the same influence in J City. Saying

scoffed. “Even though the Moore family have been in the mafia for so many years, we’ve always been just and righteous. The reason we want to get a hold of J City is just to find my daughter. We don’t mean

Naomi’s dead and that’s the truth!” the former said, a

his brows.

settling the score for this accident today,” Ashton replied

living a great life with Scarlett, we better call it even and stop talking about things that happened

my lips and decided not to continue listening to their conversation. I went back into the hallway and sat down with

DNA reports four years ago wasn’t as

close to Cameron, but he left even though they hadn’t done anything. I had

there was Naomi’s death. I never imagined that I would get involved in

in the hallway, daydreaming when she was back and she couldn’t help but say, “What are you still

that, she grabbed my hand and

their conversation. At the sight of us, the

a hospital outside of K City. That way, we can celebrate the festive season as a family

said to Ashton, “You should be able to

“Yes,” he nodded.

transfer to another hospital. New year’s eve is just around the corner. We’re

asking for Ashton’s

changes in his expression when

explore W City. After all, it was a

opposition to that, and they left

and I were the only ones left but I wasn’t talking much since I had a lot

was asked about his injury before spacing out on

stared at me for a moment before saying in a low voice,

at him and saw that he was patting the spot next

that it would hurt him, so I

onto his shoulder before saying, “Don’t worry and

won’t ask him anything for now. We still have the

in W City. It hadn’t stopped since the

he was going to be discharged soon, Ashton decided that he

all, I couldn’t bring myself to react with virtue instead of retaliation. But I could

matter how capable the Crest family was, there was

money was just too worthless when compared to

of intentional assault and was sentenced to seven years in prison in the suburbs outside W

they

entrance. I looked up at the iron gate before me and it was so tall

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blink of an eye!” I said. I couldn’t help

hand. He patted the back

so there were hardly any cars that passed by the place. We didn’t have to worry that there would be a lack of parking

on his own now and as long as there weren’t any large movements, there wouldn’t be

the prison which

had informed the people working there before we arrived, an officer was waiting for us by the door. At the sight of us, he stepped aside

him and held my hand as we

the door. A training field similar to a military training field was on both sides of the path, followed by a building where a police officer who

hall, the officer leading us seemed to

to see Jared. He sat at the opposite of the thick glass partition. Both of his hands were

He took his seat and stared at

the back of his chair leisurely as he continued staring disdainfully at the

to cut

him as I looked

men were once best friends who had gone through bumps and twists in life together, but

couldn’t help but sigh at