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.

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 already adults, no one could really say

both quite the black sheep of the family and didn’t have a very good reputation among their community. That was why Archie sent both of them overseas. He put in quite a lot of effort to

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 in the Taylor

been so shaken

simply a woman whom Archie had had a one-night stand with. Not every woman who he slept

didn’t tell me too much about Holden’s mother. All he told me was that she was a woman he had

respects, Holden glanced at me. It was a glance full of disdain, but since he had never exactly shown respect to me, I was already used to

then looked at Ashton and said,

seemed like they were about

in the yard, okay? I’ll come and

I nodded.

furnished. There was an elegant pavilion as well as a large koi pond and even a fake

all of Archie’s wives could bear spending their time together so peacefully. As long as 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

that centered around a bunch of women fighting over some old guy. Now I kind of knew why. Rather than fight over

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bastard 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 all of a sudden. I froze for a split second before turning toward the source of the voice

was approaching sixty years old, but she

the contrary, it was Kate who looked older than her years, probably because

running those companies in your hands. It doesn’t really matter who’s managing the Taylor family. We’ll still live our lives as they are. Don’t tell

to conceive him. What’s more, she’s such a promiscuous woman. Who knows whether Holden really is Father’s child? But Father

he’s a Taylor anymore. He’s only in his twenties. How long do you think he can keep his position? Be patient, alright? You’re not the only

aback and whipped her head to look at her mother. She was silent for a while before

and pleasant smile. “The Taylors family business is far-reaching. Besides, we’re not the only Taylors. There are still your uncles, all of whom are waiting for your father’s funeral to create a scene, so be patient and just take care of the companies in your hands. Your brothers will 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.

nodded subtly and looked at her mother with awe. “Mom, as always, you’re the calm and rational one. Thank God you reminded me, or I would’ve attracted unnecessary attention to myself by kicking up a

watched the mother and daughter with mixed emotions whirring in me. This was probably the power struggle in wealthy families. It seemed like money and influence

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

voice from behind. “Mom, I

froze in shock. Crap. Did they discover that

around the yard, taking me straight to the loft. After making sure that we

was all he said, I

you heard, if you know what’s

a reminder as

replied, “Don’t

all, I had no interest whatsoever to participate in the internal strife between the

and chuckled mirthlessly.

I spun on my heels

me a long time before I found my way to the lounge room. Ashton was chatting with someone, so

asked,

backyard garden. I was just taking a stroll.” I

here, the guests who are here to mourn should stay back for lunch

and

was a grand and large-scale funeral. Many guests made their way to the cemetery to pay their final respects. Only after the coffin was lowered into the ground did everyone go

to see Abe at the cemetery. Dressed in a black suit, he was shrouded in his usual cold and sinister aura. The somber atmosphere and gloomy weather only seemed

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than exchanging customary pleasantries, he didn’t have much

Ashton and me, I subconsciously hid behind Ashton as fear clutched at my

again!” he said with a minute smile on

man’s

where I was given a new life.

him a chilling

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

waiting for a response, he walked

relief and quickly said, “Let’s

a glance at Holden, signaling that we were leaving. With that, he looked at me and said,

after him and inadvertently peeked at Abe, who was supposed to leave. Instead, he stopped to stare unblinkingly at Ashton and me

tightly. Noticing my reaction, he put his arm around my waist and lowered his voice to say, “Don’t be scared. I’m

meekly and continued walking alongside Ashton with my heart in

into the car, my nerves finally relaxed. I watched as he started

road ahead. “Tomorrow,” he replied, then looked sideways at me. “What did Abe do to you

he was very cruel to Nora and the other women. Abe treated their bodies as carriers for transporting kyanine to

my hand and gazed at me earnestly. “Don’t ever leave without a word again, okay? No matter what

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

smiled and shifted his gaze

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

that he’s sorry,” he clarified and placed