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.

body jerked forward, and he took a step closer to me as he readjusted his

racing heartbeat was thumping

down, and we eventually

and Joseph were already waiting for us outside the

nudge me with her elbow.

out, speeding up my pace to

me closely, giggling

towards the restaurant. At the main entrance of the restaurant, Ashton said something to Joseph, and his

have improved much. “Ms.

go away soon.” She gave them a gentle smile,

announcing, “Mr. Fuller, we’ll be going out for a

interrupted. “Joseph has already gone to buy

a knowing stare. They were both adults; they knew what was going

glanced at me. “Mr. Fuller is very protective towards Ms. Zimmer, I see. I should have thought of that beforehand and let Linda go to buy pain relievers for Ms.

almost forgot about

that, she took

a smile.

“No problem.”

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

shaking her head. “I’ll

back, nearly on Joseph’s heels as she rushed into the restaurant. “I’ll go wash my hands and then help you put this on!” she told me, giving me a box of burn ointment before

Armond took the burn ointment from me and pulled a chair to sit down beside

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 on his thigh, squeezing out a bit

mouth falling open when she

problem?” Armond glanced up

away, wiping her hands dry with a

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

by several people at once. Armond looked unperturbed by the whole situation as if he had nothing

say

more after we get back tonight. It should

like we were much closer than we actually were. I felt Ashton’s sharp gaze focus on us

you living together with Ms. Stovall?”

simply murmured

“You treat Ms. Stovall with such kindness, Mr. Murphy.

moment. I opened my mouth, wanting to defend myself, but was worried that it would seem as if I was taking the chance to explain and show off my relationship with Armond

with our food and that was the

employees had somehow jumped to the conclusion that Ashton and

instructed Joseph to send Rachel home, but the man in question had

offered to

anything before Linda shoved me

speak for a long time during the drive. Naturally, I

“Did you leave Mr. Fuller because

head. “No. It has nothing to do

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

you do have some self-awareness and left him because you know that you don’t deserve him. In that case, you’re not as despicable as I thought you were.” She watched as I turned

deciding not to argue with her on the subject. “I’ll send you to the hospital to get your injury checked out. You’ve hurt your leg two

all as she said, “Sure. You have nothing else

and needed to rest at home for a few days. He

It’s hard to hail a taxi out here,” she insisted as

true that taxis rarely came by the hospital

on the way to Rachel’s place, Linda called my phone. “Why are you still out?

to the hospital. Tell Armond that I’ll be

out of your mind, Scarlett? That woman is trying to steal your man!

anyone sitting near me could still be able to hear

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

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

weren’t for Ashton, maybe

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

never become

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

certain amount of fate and luck in a relationship, and when those run out,

silent for a moment. “That is why I will be happier with him than you were, Scarlett. I will never leave him, no

merely smiled

of cold water as soon as she saw me, saying, “So? Did anything transpire from two love rivals sitting in

throughout my body. It was already August, and yet

She sounded uncharacteristically solemn as

and was in no mood to discuss it further. “Isn’t Magpie Festival two days from now?” I hummed. “Want to call up Nora and grab lunch together

suddenly widening her eyes as if recalling something. “Sure. By the way, the

“Mr. Campbell?”

him to buy it for you and also buy medicine for Rachel while he was at it.

in my chest tightened even further.

then why put yourselves through so much torture? Did you see the look on Ashton’s face when you and

love, never say never chapter

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

as soon as it was approved, so

belongings in the office, inviting me to eat

yet to 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

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

yet. What would you like to eat?”

are over. Let’s

head on down first. I’ll come as soon as I get my things

waited for him to walk a good distance away before whispering into

going to reject my

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

you talking

dinner for him tonight. I’ll act as your assistant, and

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

dashed out of the office and searched for Armond’s

seemed to have smoked a cigarette while waiting for me, the heavy smell causing me to cough a few

up the

could tell

we reached his villa. Armond made a beeline for his study

with several bags full of groceries. “I already told you

sure if you had them!” She winked at me. “Oh, and besides

her and set them down on

it was the assistant who’s always beside Ashton. He looked like he was moving in.” The kitchen was entirely made up of

I wondered

herself with

as expensive as in K City, but they usually went for around several hundred thousand per unit. Joseph was already married with children, so why

because he worked in K City. Was it possible that he was feeling pressured or