In Love, Never Say Never

I wasn’t really sure what to do. Since I had to stay in Moranta for the next few days, I couldn’t very well go all the way back and send her to the hospital. “Mom, can you ask one of the maids to take Summer to the hospital? She may just be going through a bad case of seasonal flu. Maybe she’ll get better after a while,” I told Cameron.

“Alright. I’ll arrange for someone to take her to the hospital tomorrow. Your dad and I have been so busy nowadays we can barely catch our breath. Come back after finishing your business at Moranta, okay? Don’t go to A City anymore. Come back to K City and learn how to manage the companies. Your dad and I are getting old, so you and Emery will be taking over soon. Since you’re both so young, it’ll be much easier for you two to take the reins. I’m sure the companies will do much better with you two in charge.”

It surprised me to hear that they were planning to pass both the Moore Corporation and the Anderson Corporation over to me. Almost instinctively, I replied, “Mom, you know I don’t like all that business stuff. Nick and Emery are both skilled enough to take over. I still have stuff I want to do in the future. You can slowly give up the company bit by bit, but there’s no rush.”

Luckily, Cameron seemed to respect my decision. She sighed and replied, “You know, you will have to take over sooner or later. You’re from the Moore family, after all. There are some things you can’t just push to others.”

I knew she was just reminding me out of kindness. Hence, I replied with a short hum, reluctant to say much more.

However, my mood got much worse after the phone call. I had never even thought of those things. In the midst of all this new information, I couldn’t help but feel slightly rattled. I turned around to see Ashton still reading.

I felt like I had to coddle him a bit. After all, I had run out by myself and got my phone broken by Holden. I even got back pretty late, so it was inevitable that he would worry.

Because of what Cameron said, however, I was already in a rather unhappy mood. I decided to just crawl into bed. Maybe it was because I was worried, or maybe it was because I was already tired from walking around all day, but I fell asleep rather quickly.

After some time, I woke up to some loud noises. I soon realized that Ashton was making those noises on purpose. He was practically slamming his books down and even made a racket when he was filling a glass of water. His typing was usually pretty quiet, but today he was stabbing each key as if he had a personal vendetta against his keyboard.

I wasn’t planning on saying anything at first since I knew he was doing it on purpose. Sometimes, men could really be more immature than I could imagine. He was just trying his best to get my attention.

How could I have not realized? At the sight of my indifference, he somehow dug out a calculator and started repeatedly pressing one of the buttons. The mechanical beeps kept coming as he continued pressing.

I finally sat up and looked at him. “Ashton, can you stop being so childish?” He was almost forty, so I couldn’t believe that he was still so immature.

He glared at me. “How am I being childish?”

I nearly choked on my spit. “So you think you’re being an adult right now?” In order to wake me up, he had already banged, beeped, and tapped everything that could make a noise in the hotel room.

He looked at me and suddenly lowered his head, chuckling so hard his shoulders started to shake.

Ever since I’d met him, we never showed our weaker or childish side to each other. Despite having been married for many years, I sometimes felt as though we’d just started dating. We had been all caught up in misunderstandings and jealousy until now when we could finally start interacting more comfortably.

I watched him as he finally stopped laughing. “What did you go out alone for?” he asked me.

I thought about it for a while before answering, “I’ve never been to Moranta, so I thought it would be fun to take a quick walk. I was getting bored staying in the hotel room after all. I didn’t know I would get into trouble, much less bump into Holden.”

He leaned next to me and sighed, looking a little pitiful. “Next time, please let me know your whereabouts no matter what. Worrying so much about someone hurts more than you’d think.”

I couldn’t help but feel a little sorry for him and nodded. “I’ll always let you know where I am from now on, okay?”

A relationship always ended up boiling down to two people missing each other all the time. The simplest definition of love was probably having someone apart from your parents love and care for you.

I suddenly felt his hand on me and looked at him with wide eyes. “Ashton, what are you doing?”

He had already pushed my nightdress up to my thigh. With a gentle gaze, he asked, “Aren’t you going to pay me back for what I’ve gone through?”

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I stared at him in surprise before shaking my head, feeling a blush creeping up on my cheeks. “No, I…”

Plenty of times, however, that sort of stuff always ended up happening in between all the pushing and pulling…

Archie’s funeral was on Saturday.

I had roughly guessed Ashton’s schedule for our short trip to Moranta. First, he had to come over and visit Archie. Apart from that, he also wanted to break into the Moranta market. There were many things that couldn’t be done back home, but Moranta was considered a self-governed territory. Add that to the agreement he had with the Taylor family, and it was much easier to do things here than back in the country.

Early on Saturday morning, Ashton and I dressed in formal black outfits in order to attend Archie’s funeral. By the time we reached the Taylor residence, the whole front yard was already full of people.

There were plenty of people who had come to pay their respects. The atmosphere was heavy with pitiful sighs.

After saying our prayers, Holden called for the attendees to line up in two lines in front of the casket.

I didn’t recognize most of the other Taylor family members, but Ashton had told me about their situation before. Archie had four wives. His first wife had passed away a decade or so ago due to an illness and was also from a well-off family. After that, Archie took over the Taylor family thanks to this first wife’s help.

That first wife gave birth to two daughters, much to Archie’s chagrin. These daughters both turned out to be rather outstanding. One of them married into a rich family, and the other owned her own business overseas. With the Taylor family name behind her, she had made quite a name for herself.

That meant that Archie’s first two children were no longer part of the Taylor family.

Archie’s second wife was a famous celebrity from the nineties. She had never been taken seriously by the other Taylor family members because of her background but managed to improve her reputation after giving birth to a son and a daughter. The Taylor family was one step closer to having an heir, but this heir got into a car accident a few years ago and became wheelchair-bound.

Such was the fickle fate of rich families.

wife, apparently, she had been a reporter when she was younger and got married to Archie when he was already well into his fifties. Not many people were willing to believe that such a young woman married such an old man simply out of love. One wanted money, while the other wanted youth and beauty. Since they were both

That was why Archie sent both of them overseas. He put in quite a lot

She was almost forty and quite spoiled due to the Taylor family’s upbringing. As a result, she was arrogant and had never fallen for any sons from other rich families. She had always stayed

been so shaken up after

even married Archie. She was simply a woman whom Archie had had a one-night stand with. Not every woman who he slept with had a chance

that she was a woman he had spotted accompanying Archie at Gastronomia once.

full of disdain, but since he had never exactly shown respect to

said, “Mr. Fuller,

were about

me and said, “Wait for me in the yard, okay? I’ll come and find

I nodded.

quite extravagantly furnished. There was an elegant pavilion as well as a large koi pond and even a fake mountain display. The yard was practically designed to look like all nature had to offer was

they didn’t actually love him, they could have the time of their lives living in an extravagant mansion with the money to buy whatever

old guy. Now I kind of knew why. Rather than fight over his love, they were probably fighting for his money and

say never

child, to begin with. If my two younger brothers weren’t situated overseas, he wouldn’t have had the right to be a part of the Taylor family.” A voice rang

Archie’s third wife, who was approaching sixty years old, but she

her years, probably because she was often plagued with worries and problems which then

calmly and chided, “You should be focusing on running those companies in your hands. It doesn’t really matter who’s managing the Taylor family. We’ll

stuck overseas when Father died. Holden is a nobody. His mother was just a filthy escort who used her body to conceive him. What’s more, she’s such a promiscuous woman. Who knows whether Holden really is

and looked at her with a small smile. “My child, why are you so quick-tempered? It doesn’t matter whether or not he’s a Taylor anymore. He’s only in his twenties. How long do you think he can keep his position? Be

to look at her mother. She was silent for a while before asking, “Mom, do you mean

be back soon. Your father mentioned before to let them join Taylor Corporation to help Holden in running the company. You’re all young and have a whole future ahead.

“Mom, as always, you’re the calm and rational one. Thank God you reminded me, or I would’ve attracted unnecessary attention

This was probably the power struggle in wealthy families.

eavesdropped, I turned around to leave. Upon seeing Holden standing behind me, I was so startled

Kate’s voice from behind. “Mom, I think there’s

froze in shock. Crap. Did

and led me around the yard, taking me straight to the loft. After making sure that we weren’t followed, he released my arm and said with an expressionless face, “Ashton’s waiting for you in the

as that was all he said, I nodded and was

“Regardless of what you heard, if you know what’s good for

was a reminder as well as a

and replied, “Don’t worry. I didn’t hear

no interest whatsoever to participate in the internal strife

me impassively and chuckled mirthlessly.

I spun on my

took me a long time before I found my way to the lounge room. Ashton was chatting with someone, so I approached him quietly. Glancing at me fleetingly, he tugged me closer and introduced me

studied me and asked, “Where did

garden. I was just taking a stroll.”

here to mourn should stay back for lunch and send Mr. Taylor out together

and didn’t

large-scale funeral. Many guests made their way to the cemetery to

shrouded in his usual cold and sinister aura. The somber atmosphere and gloomy weather only seemed to amplify that bleakness

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him, other than exchanging customary pleasantries,

hid behind Ashton as fear

Fuller, what a coincidence. We meet again!” he said with a

as he met the other man’s gaze. “Mm,

abrupt laugh. “Of course not. This land is where I was given a new life. If I left just like that,

shot him a chilling

lifted into an arrogant smirk. “It seems like you don’t really like talking to me, Mr. Fuller. It’s fine. Time is on

waiting for a response, he walked

relief and quickly said, “Let’s go,

that we were leaving. With that, he

he stopped to stare unblinkingly at Ashton and

I subconsciously grabbed Ashton’s arm tightly. Noticing my reaction, he put his arm around my waist and lowered his voice to say, “Don’t

nodded meekly and continued walking alongside Ashton with

the car, my nerves finally relaxed. I watched as he started the car and asked, “When will

road ahead. “Tomorrow,” he

away, he didn’t hurt me because of my relationship with Armond, but he was very cruel to Nora and the other women. Abe treated their bodies as carriers for transporting kyanine to

me earnestly. “Don’t ever leave without a word again, okay? No matter what

nodded. Realizing that he was still driving, I exclaimed, “Eyes on the

his

moment of silence, he handed me a box. Slightly bewildered, I turned to him

wanted me to tell you that he’s sorry,” he clarified and placed the box on