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.

In love, never say never chapter 712

“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.

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

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

instantly calmed me down, and we eventually arrived at our floor, just like

already waiting for us outside the elevator when

walked out in front of me, and Linda hung back to nudge me with her elbow. “The two of

out, speeding up my pace to

closely,

restaurant. At the main entrance of the restaurant,

noticed that her ankle didn’t seem to have improved much. “Ms.

soon.” She gave them a gentle smile, which only motivated the two

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

Ashton interrupted. “Joseph has already gone to

back awkwardly, giving each other a knowing stare. They

to buy pain relievers for Ms. Zimmer as well as burn ointment, instead of having Mr. Campbell go out. It’s unsightly for a girl to have any

feet. “Right, I almost forgot about that! I’ll go buy some

with that,

gave Armond a

“No problem.”

bag in his hands to Rachel. “Ms.

thank you, Mr. Campbell,” she answered, shaking her head.

Joseph’s heels as she rushed into the restaurant. “I’ll go wash my hands and

immediately, Armond took the burn ointment from me and pulled a chair to

What?

that had come with it. He carefully tugged on my hand and placed it on his thigh, squeezing out a bit of the cream and spreading it all over my burn

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

there a problem?” Armond glanced up at

at all!” She quickly turned away, wiping

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

if I was sitting on needles, being watched so intently by several people at once. Armond looked unperturbed by the whole situation as if he had nothing to do

love, never say

in his and raised it to his lips, blowing on it softly. “I 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

than we actually were. I

are you living together with Ms. Stovall?” Rachel

murmured in

to the fire, perking up and added, “You treat Ms. Stovall with such kindness, Mr. Murphy. Anyone would be able to tell that the two of you are very close. It’s so admirable that you can

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

At that moment, a waiter arrived with

Corporation employees had somehow jumped to the conclusion that Ashton and

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

of hesitation, Linda offered to let me take

chance to retort with anything before Linda shoved me into the driver’s seat of my

a long time during the drive.

“Did you

“No. It has nothing to do with anyone

the low temperature of the car’s air-conditioning. I reached down and turned the air-conditioner to a

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

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

grateful at all as she said, “Sure. You

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

taxi out here,” she insisted as we

rarely came by the hospital area. Internally sighing,

called

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

woman is trying to steal your man! Why are you

loud, but anyone sitting near me could still

was staring at the passing scenery outside, seemingly letting her

so I’ll call you back later!” I hung up the phone and went

maybe we could

mouth surprised me,

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

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

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

happier with

merely smiled

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

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

“Seriously, what happened?” She sounded uncharacteristically solemn as

fed up with the topic and was in no mood to discuss it further. “Isn’t Magpie Festival two days from now?” I hummed.

recalling something. “Sure. By the way, the burn ointment I gave you earlier

“Mr. Campbell?”

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

bothering me in my chest tightened even

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

love, never say never

stared off into space and didn’t answer her. As a result, she decided

to kickstart as soon as it was approved, so I had made plans to stay there

up my belongings in the office, inviting me

he was here for business matters,

nodded. “What are we eating

managing his daily

would you like to eat?” I replied

hours are

first. I’ll come as soon as I

walk a good distance

you going to reject my

idiot. Are you going to

you

address so you can come over and cook dinner for him tonight. I’ll act as your assistant, and we can eat together at

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

up the call, I dashed out of the office and searched for Armond’s car in

to have smoked a cigarette while waiting for me, the heavy smell causing me to cough a few times. “Is there something on

started up the

word to me at all. I could

villa. Armond made a beeline for his study upstairs while I paced

the house with several bags full of groceries. “I

for my recipe, and I wasn’t sure if you had them!” She winked at me.

is it?” I took the groceries from her and set them down on

He looked like he was moving in.” The kitchen was entirely made up of smart appliances, but she looked at ease and in her own element as she instructed me

moving here?” I wondered

busying herself with

for around several hundred thousand per unit.

because he worked in K City. Was it possible that he