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.

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

racing heartbeat was thumping in my

simple sentence instantly calmed me down, and we

for

nudge me with her elbow. “The two of you were getting pretty intimate there,

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

me closely, giggling all the

main entrance of the restaurant,

improved much. “Ms. Zimmer, should we get some ointment for

them a gentle smile, which only motivated the two employees

to their feet, valiantly announcing, “Mr. Fuller, we’ll

interrupted. “Joseph has already

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

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. Zimmer as well as burn ointment, instead of having Mr. Campbell go out. It’s unsightly for

feet. “Right, I almost forgot about that!

that, she took

Armond a smile. “Thank

“No problem.”

in his hands to Rachel. “Ms. Zimmer, should I help you

head. “I’ll

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

and pulled

What?

come with it. He carefully tugged on my hand and placed it on his thigh, squeezing out

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

Armond glanced up

all!” She quickly turned away, wiping her hands dry with a

Armond kept himself occupied by focusing on treating my

at once. Armond looked unperturbed by the whole situation as

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don’t think it’ll scar,” he reassured in a gentle 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

sound like we were much closer than we actually

you living together with Ms. Stovall?” Rachel

simply murmured

perking up and added, “You treat Ms. Stovall with such kindness, Mr. Murphy. Anyone would be able to tell that the

to defend myself, but was worried that it would seem as if I

arrived with our food

eating, the two Fuller Corporation employees had somehow jumped to the conclusion that Ashton and

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

beat of hesitation, Linda offered

didn’t even have a chance to retort with anything before Linda shoved me into

the drive. Naturally,

she spoke up. “Did you

my head. “No. It

the car’s air-conditioning. I reached down and turned the

deserve him. In that case, you’re not as despicable as I thought you were.” She watched as I turned

laugh, 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

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

and needed to rest

hard to hail a taxi out here,” she

the hospital area. Internally sighing, I nodded

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

I just brought Rachel to the hospital. Tell Armond that I’ll

trying to steal

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

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

so I’ll call you back later!” I hung up

for Ashton, maybe we could

of Rachel’s mouth surprised

people fighting over someone else’s affections can never become

curious as to why you left Ashton. From my point of view, he was really

with. You need a certain amount of fate and luck in a relationship, and when

be happier with him than you

merely smiled and

the office after sending Rachel home. Linda gave me a glass of cold water as

at all.” I gulped down the water, immediately feeling cooling relief spread throughout my body. It

sounded uncharacteristically solemn as she stressed, “Are you really ending things with

topic and was in no mood to discuss it further. “Isn’t Magpie Festival two days from now?”

By the way, the burn ointment I gave you earlier

“Mr. Campbell?”

for Rachel while he was at it.

even further. I inhaled sharply but kept my

wasn’t offering any 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

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didn’t answer her. As a result, she decided to end the conversation

as it

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

answer her when I realized that Armond was standing at my door, gazing at me. Thinking that he was here for business matters, I quickly told Nora, “Give me a minute!” before turning around and asking him, “Have you gotten off work already, Mr.

nodded. “What are we eating

that I was responsible for managing his daily

haven’t decided yet. What would you

are over.

as soon as I get my

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

going to reject

quick wits a little. “No, you idiot. Are you going to pass up such an amazing chance to hook up with

are you talking

him tonight. I’ll act as your assistant, and we can eat together

You are my superhero, Scarlett!

up the call, I dashed out of the office and searched for

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

started up the

I could tell that he

for his study upstairs while I

groceries. “I already told you not to buy

had them!” She winked at me. “Oh, and besides that, I spotted someone

is it?” I took the groceries from her

he was moving in.” The kitchen was entirely made up of smart appliances, but she looked at ease and in

I wondered out loud to myself,

busying herself with

City weren’t 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 was he purchasing a villa worth hundreds of

he regularly came to A City either, because he worked in K City. Was it possible that he was feeling pressured or stressed so he bought a house here