In Love, Never Say Never

In love, never say never chapter 711

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.

Ashton’s body jerked forward, and he took a step closer to me as he readjusted his balance. There was barely a hair’s breadth of

my racing heartbeat was thumping in my ears. He glanced down at me, quietly murmuring,

down, and we eventually arrived at our

for

of me, and Linda hung back to nudge me with her elbow.

“Nonsense!” I sputtered out, speeding up

followed behind me closely,

group headed towards the restaurant. At the main entrance of the restaurant, Ashton said something to

Rachel noticed that her ankle didn’t seem to have improved much. “Ms. Zimmer, should we get some ointment for you

I’m sure it’ll go away soon.” She gave them a gentle smile, which only motivated

jumped to their feet, valiantly announcing, “Mr. Fuller, we’ll be going out for a

“Joseph has already

knowing stare. They

go to buy pain relievers for Ms. Zimmer as well as

almost forgot about that! I’ll go buy some

that, she

gave Armond a smile. “Thank

“No problem.”

handing the plastic bag in his hands to Rachel. “Ms. Zimmer,

answered, shaking her head. “I’ll handle it

hands

burn ointment from me and pulled a chair to sit

What?

waiting for a response, he took out the ointment and the cotton swab that had come with it. He carefully tugged on my hand and placed it

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

there a problem?” Armond glanced up

turned away, wiping her hands

atmosphere around the dining table was strange and uncomfortable. The food had been ordered, but nothing had been served yet. Armond kept himself occupied by focusing on treating my burn wounds, while Ashton had on a stony expression. Everyone else instinctively turned a blind

was sitting on needles, being watched so intently by several people at once. Armond looked unperturbed by the whole

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tone. “I’ll put some more after we get back tonight. It should heal properly after a few days, but to be on the safe side, don’t touch any water tonight and ask me

were much closer than we actually were. I felt Ashton’s sharp gaze

together with Ms. Stovall?” Rachel asked

murmured

with such kindness, Mr. Murphy. Anyone would be able to tell that the two of you

worried that it would

arrived with our food and that was

Fuller Corporation employees had somehow jumped to the

Ashton instructed Joseph to send Rachel home, but the man in question had some other things to

offered to let me take

a chance to retort with anything before Linda shoved me

during the drive.

up. “Did you leave

It has nothing

rubbed at her knee, possibly due to the low temperature of the car’s air-conditioning. I reached down and turned

have some self-awareness and left him because you know that you don’t deserve him. In that case, you’re not as

light, casual laugh, deciding not to argue with her on the subject. “I’ll send you to the hospital

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

doctor asserted that she’d pulled a ligament in her leg and needed to rest at home for a few days. He prescribed her some pills

to hail a taxi out here,” she insisted as we exited

rarely came by the hospital area. Internally sighing, I

the way to Rachel’s place, Linda called my

brought Rachel to the hospital. Tell Armond that

trying to steal

loud, but anyone sitting near me could still be able to hear Linda’s

anxious sidelong glance. She was staring at the passing scenery outside, seemingly letting her mind

hung up the phone and went back to keeping

it weren’t for Ashton, maybe

that came out of Rachel’s mouth surprised me, and I glanced over at

someone else’s affections can never become friends, anyway.” The corners of her lips

before she went on, “I’m curious as to why you left Ashton. From my point

has their own troubles to deal with. You need a certain amount of fate and luck in a relationship, and when those run out, the relationship naturally

silent for a moment. “That is why I will be happier with him than you were, Scarlett. I will

smiled

the office after sending Rachel home. Linda gave me a glass of cold water as soon as she saw me, saying, “So? Did anything

down the water, immediately feeling cooling relief spread throughout my body. It was already August, and yet the weather

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

in no mood to discuss it further. “Isn’t Magpie Festival two days from now?” I hummed. “Want

widening her eyes as if recalling something. “Sure. By the way, the burn ointment I gave you earlier was

“Mr. Campbell?”

buy medicine for Rachel while he was at it. When he saw

my chest tightened even further. I inhaled sharply

sort of response, Linda sighed. “Scarlett, you and Ashton still care for each other, don’t you? If so, then why put yourselves through so much torture? Did you see the look on Ashton’s face when you and Armond were acting all intimate with each other

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

soon as it was

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

door, gazing at me. Thinking that he was here for business matters,

are we eating

responsible for managing his daily meals. I hesitated, pondering over Nora’s dinner

yet. What would you

Work hours are over.

I’ll come as

walk a good

going to reject

quick wits a little. “No, you idiot. Are you

you

cook dinner for him tonight. I’ll act as your

gasped in excitement. “Really? You are my superhero, Scarlett! I’m going over there right

up the call, I dashed out of the office and

the heavy smell causing me to cough a

up the

could tell that he was in a bad mood,

beeline for his study

at the house with several bags full of groceries. “I already told you not to buy anything. This

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

the groceries from her and set them

was the assistant who’s always beside Ashton. He looked like he was moving in.” The kitchen was entirely made up of smart appliances, but she looked at ease and in her

moving here?” I wondered out loud to myself,

herself with creating a

City weren’t as expensive as in K City, but they usually went for around several hundred thousand per unit.

as if he regularly came to A City either, because he worked in K City. Was it possible