In Love, Never Say Never

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Ashton and Armond’s attentions were both naturally drawn to the sudden commotion. Armond snuck a glance at Ashton before asking me, “Are you okay?”

I nodded in response. “The water wasn’t that hot. I’ll go change my clothes and come back.”

“The private restroom in my office has a spare change of clothes,” he helpfully offered. “Feel free to use those.”

I nodded in a daze and gestured for Linda to remain where she was. “I’m fine.”

I exited the conference room and made a beeline for Armond’s office. I had no other choice; I wouldn’t be able to buy a new change of clothes in the shop now.

His private restroom was equipped with a bathroom, a bed, and other amenities. The minimalistic interior perfectly reflected his cold personality.

Inside the closet, there were several suits and ties as well as neatly folded-up shirts. Just as he had told me, there was one set of women’s clothing placed in the corner of the closet. The clothes looked familiar to me, yet I couldn’t recall exactly where I’d seen them before.

I decided to take a cold shower before changing into the clothes. The clothes fitted perfectly. However, the scalded skin stuck out like a sore thumb.

I paid no heed to it and rushed back to the conference room to resume the meeting.

When I got there, Linda was in the middle of presenting the project details and our concerns. After that, a representative of the Fuller Corporation described the level of cooperation needed from us during the implementation process.

As the person in charge, I was responsible for taking every detail and possible setback into consideration. That included smoothing over any troubles that might arise during our collaboration.

Having both companies’ objectives aligned, we proceeded to finalize the collaboration. The person in charge from both companies would have to be on-site to supervise the progress once the project commenced.

After signing the contracts and exchanging handshakes and greetings with each other, Linda came to me to ask, “You didn’t treat your burns?”

I shook my head. “I’ll do it later. There’s no ointment in here.”

“You’re a woman, Scarlett. You have to treat your skin better. It’ll be hard to remove any scars the wounds might leave in the future.”

“I’ll keep that in mind,” I laughed lightly, hugging the contract documents to my chest. “Does this skirt I’m wearing belong to you? It looked familiar to me.”

She scanned my appearance from head to toe. “Isn’t this the outfit you wore when you came back from Venria?”

I blinked owlishly, realizing that Ashton and Armond were both staring at me from afar. Furrowing my eyebrows, I glanced down at my clothes again.

Something was amiss. Armond had never bought clothes for a girl before. Hence, when he had to buy clothes for us in Western Europe, he chose four similar designs. Although they were similar, they were each different and individual pieces.

I distinctly remembered what he’d bought for me; these were not those clothes. Amongst the four of us, only Nora shared the same body shape and height as me.

Thus, these clothes had to be Nora’s. I couldn’t help but look over at Armond curiously. Why does he have Nora’s clothes?

Feeling my gaze on him, he cleared his throat and declared loudly, “It’s noontime. Let’s have lunch together.”

It seemed that things between him and Nora were progressing much more rapidly than we’d thought.

“Mr. Murphy has some interesting kinks,” Rachel giggled.

She’d said that on purpose for Ashton to hear.

Ashton’s face instantly darkened, turning his attention to me. I knew all too well just by his expression that he was suppressing his anger.

As we exited the conference room, Linda leaned in and whispered confusedly, “What’s going on?”

“These are Nora’s clothes,” I sighed, exasperated.

She chuckled. “Those two are getting on a lot better than we’d expected. But I was actually asking about you and Ashton. What happened? Nora told me that you and he are married to each other. Who is that pretty young lady by his side?”

“It’s a long story, but we won’t be married anymore soon.” I shrugged. “After this project is over and done with, I’ll go to J City with him to sign the divorce papers.”

Linda was rendered speechless by my sudden confession.

“Ah!” Rachel’s voice cried out from in front of us.

It seemed that she had tripped over something and was limping.

Several people turned around at the sound of her cries. “What happened?”

Rachel leaned against a wall, eyes watering pitifully as she said, “Sorry. I twisted my ankle yesterday, so I can’t really walk well. Now it just hurt even more…”

Rolled her eyes at the sight, Linda muttered under her breath, “Does she expect someone to carry her like a princess?”

“Didn’t she say that she’d twisted her ankle?” I glanced at Linda, perplexed.

“She’s trying to take advantage of the fact that she can’t walk. Watch.”

Ashton’s eyebrows knitted together slightly, ordering Joseph, “Go help Ms. Zimmer up.”

Joseph nodded, holding Rachel up by one arm and assisting her in getting to the elevator, which was already full.

“Mr. Campbell, you and Ms. Zimmer should use the VIP elevator instead,” Armond suggested.

Taken aback, Joseph glanced over at Ashton, who offered no response. So, Joseph rejected Armond’s suggestion with a polite smile.

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“Ms. Zimmer injured herself in my company building, so I have to take some responsibility. Occasionally letting other people benefit from the privileges offered to me wouldn’t hurt, either” Armond stated.

Ashton’s voice was low as he cut in, “It’ll make things easier for Ms. Zimmer. Go.”

Joseph nodded, helping Rachel enter the VIP elevator. However, Ashton showed no signs of getting in with them.

“Mr. Fuller?” Armond spoke up, puzzled.

“I’ll take this one,” Ashton replied simply, following Linda and me into the employees’ elevator.

It was lunchtime, and there were more people than usual in the elevator. His tall height and handsome looks made him stand out from the crowd, drawing many curious looks from the rest of the employees in the elevator.

“What is Mr. Fuller doing?” Linda was stunned.

He could have definitely fitted in that large VIP elevator with much more room to spare.

I had no idea why he was acting that way either and decided to keep my mouth shut.

The elevator stopped many times on the way down, and people kept getting off or getting on their respective floors. Somehow, in the midst of all the chaos, Ashton ended up standing in front of me, and I was being squished into a corner.

He was facing me, shielding me from the push and pull of the rest of the passengers in the elevator.

I felt awkward after having said so many cruel things to him yesterday. Fixing my gaze on the floor, I placed a hand on his chest in an attempt to widen the distance between us. He didn’t budge an inch, seemingly unbothered by my actions.

His eyes fell to my burnt wrist and furrowed his eyebrows.

The elevator stopped at yet another floor, opening up to let more passengers in.

and he took a step closer to me as he readjusted his balance. There

of my racing heartbeat was thumping

sentence instantly calmed me down, and we eventually arrived at our

for us outside the elevator when

me with her elbow. “The two of you

cheeks flushed red. “Nonsense!” I sputtered out, speeding up my pace

me closely, giggling

entrance of the restaurant, Ashton said

seem to have improved much. “Ms. Zimmer, should we get some ointment

away soon.” She gave them a gentle smile,

announcing, “Mr. Fuller, we’ll

interrupted. “Joseph has already gone to buy ointment for her

back awkwardly, giving each other a knowing

Ms. Zimmer, I see. I should have thought of that beforehand and let Linda go to buy pain relievers for Ms. Zimmer

jumped to her feet. “Right, I almost forgot about that! I’ll go buy

with that, she

a smile. “Thank

“No problem.”

returned, handing the plastic bag in his hands to Rachel. “Ms. Zimmer, should I help you to the infirmary to treat

you, Mr. Campbell,” she answered, shaking her head. “I’ll handle it

restaurant. “I’ll go wash my hands and

me and pulled a chair to sit down beside

What?

the cotton swab that had come with it. He carefully tugged on my hand and placed it on his thigh, squeezing out a bit

back from the washroom, her mouth falling open when she saw us. “Mr.

a problem?” Armond glanced up at

Not at all!” She quickly turned away, wiping her hands

been ordered, but nothing had been served yet. Armond kept himself occupied by focusing on treating my burn wounds, while Ashton had on a

people at once. Armond looked unperturbed by the whole situation as if he had

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scar,” he reassured in a gentle tone. “I’ll put some more after we get back tonight. It

made it sound like we were much closer than we actually were. I felt Ashton’s sharp gaze

Murphy, are you living together with Ms.

simply murmured in

such kindness, Mr. Murphy. Anyone would be able to tell

words for a good moment. I opened my mouth, wanting to defend myself, but was worried that it would seem as if I was

At that moment, a waiter arrived with our food and that was

Corporation employees had somehow jumped to the conclusion that Ashton and Rachel

meal was finally over, Ashton instructed Joseph to send Rachel home, but the man in question had some other

of hesitation, Linda offered to let me take Rachel

didn’t even have a chance to retort with anything before Linda shoved me into the driver’s seat of

long time during the drive. Naturally, I didn’t attempt

spoke up. “Did you leave Mr. Fuller because of

It has nothing to

at her knee, possibly due to the low temperature of the car’s air-conditioning. I

you don’t deserve him. In that case, you’re not as despicable as I thought you were.” She watched as I turned up the heating in

on the subject. “I’ll send you to the hospital to get your injury checked out. You’ve hurt your leg

didn’t sound grateful at all as she said, “Sure. You have nothing else

in her leg and needed to rest at home for a few days. He prescribed her some pills and an

me home, too. It’s hard to hail a taxi out here,” she insisted as we exited

that taxis rarely came by the hospital area. Internally

Rachel’s place, Linda called

brought Rachel to the hospital. Tell Armond that

That woman is trying to steal your man! Why are you going to such lengths for

speaker on my phone wasn’t particularly loud, but anyone sitting near me could still be

sidelong glance. She was staring

driving right now, so I’ll call you back later!” I hung up the phone and went back to keeping my

for Ashton, maybe we

surprised me, and I glanced over

never become friends, anyway.” The

you left Ashton. From my point of view, he was really serious about

to deal with. You need a certain amount of fate and luck in a relationship, and when those run out, the relationship naturally falls apart.” I slowed the car

“That is why I will be happier with him than you were, Scarlett. I will never leave

smiled and didn’t

gave me a glass of cold water as soon as

cooling relief spread throughout my body. It was already August, and yet the

her tongue, sitting down opposite me. “Seriously, what happened?” She sounded uncharacteristically solemn as she

fed up with the topic and was in no mood to discuss it further. “Isn’t Magpie Festival two

By the

“Mr. Campbell?”

buy medicine for Rachel while he was at it.

chest tightened even

for each other, don’t you? If so, then why put yourselves through so much torture?

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didn’t answer her. As a result, she decided to end the conversation there and walk away to continue

project at Lavelian Village was going to kickstart as soon as it was approved, so I had made plans

me right after I’d finished packing up my belongings in the office, inviting me to eat

answer her when I realized that Armond was standing at my door, gazing at me. Thinking that he was here for business matters, I

nodded. “What are we eating

forgotten that I was responsible for managing his daily meals. I hesitated, pondering

haven’t decided yet. What would you like

Work hours are

come as soon as I get

for him to walk a good

to reject

you going to pass up such an amazing chance to hook up with this highly

you

dinner for him tonight. I’ll

You are my superhero, Scarlett! I’m going over there right

the call, I dashed out of the office and

the heavy smell causing me to cough

the car,

that, he didn’t speak a word to me at all. I could

later, we reached his villa. Armond made a beeline for his study upstairs while I paced around aimlessly in his kitchen, waiting for

showed up at the house with several bags full of groceries. “I already told you not

I wasn’t sure if you had them!” She winked at me. “Oh, and besides that, I spotted someone next door who

from her and set them down on the kitchen

The kitchen was entirely made up of smart appliances, but she looked

I wondered

nodded, busying herself with

in K City, but they usually went for around several hundred thousand per unit.

A City either, because he worked in K City. Was it possible that he