In Love, Never Say Never

“Scarlett, you’ve always been so impatient. Sit down first and we can have a chat.” Armond blew a smoke circle, looking infuriatingly unperturbed. Seeing his unchanging expression, I felt a wave of anger wash over me.

I had run out of patience. Taking out a letter opener that I had hidden in my pocket just now, I pressed the blade against my chest and said, “I want to see my children now. Otherwise, you can take my corpse and threaten Ashton with it!”

“Letty, what are you doing? Put down that letter opener immediately!” John tried to grab the letter opener from me in shock, but I ducked away deliberately.

“Don’t come near me!” I hissed, backing into a corner. Even John looked rather apprehensive now.

Unexpectedly, Armond’s face changed a little when he saw this. The change was almost imperceptible, but I saw it anyway.

“You wouldn’t dare, Scarlett. Are you willing to abandon your children like that?” Armond asked testily, his eyes narrowing.

“So what if I’m unwilling?” I retorted, giggling coldly as I held the knife against my chest, looking as though I might plunge it into my flesh. “Everything was my fault to begin with. As long as I die, my kids will be alright. I don’t want them to live the rest of their lives in danger. I might as well die earlier to make up for all the harm I’ve caused them!”

“John, I’m sorry. Tell Ashton to find our children and take revenge for us!”

As soon as I finished speaking, I raised the letter opener up in the air, preparing to bring it down into my chest.

Armond and John yelled out at the same time. “Stop right there!” “Letty, no!”

In the end, John was faster and managed to strike down the letter opener from my hand. As he grabbed hold of my hand, he kicked the letter opener a few meters away, where I was unable to reach it.

“John, let go of me! If I don’t get to see my kids today, I’ll bite my tongue and commit suicide!” I struggled futilely, my eyes trained on Armond.

Seeing that John had managed to get me under control, Armond let out a visible sigh of relief. However, he only took another two drags of his cigar before putting it out irritably.

“Letty, can you please calm down?” John begged, panting slightly. I was still squirming frantically in his arms.

Armond couldn’t stand it anymore. “That’s enough!” he snapped. We glanced over and saw the most disgusted expression on his face, as though someone was holding a pile of dung under his nose. “Scarlett, what remained of my interest in you has completely disappeared!”

With that, he picked up the telephone on his desk. He pressed down on the speed-dial button and ordered almost immediately, “Bring the children over.”

Very quickly, a dark-skinned caregiver walked into the room, carrying an infant in her hands.

Immediately, I rushed over and snatched the child from her, cradling it in my arms as though he was a precious jewel.

The child was a little chubbier than before, but his nose and eyes looked exactly like Ashton’s. This was my child alright.

It had been one month since I lost a vital part of my life, and I had finally found him again.

The baby didn’t look afraid of me at all. He waved his arms affectionately, trying to get even closer to me. Blood relations were rather amazing—despite having been apart for so long, we had not lost the bond between us.

“Scarlett, I’ve come to my senses now. After giving birth to your children, you’re the same as those boring women I’ve loathed my entire life—normal, low-class, and completely devoid of any taste and interest,” Armond said scathingly, as though the very sight of me was an affront to his eyes.

I looked at him before turning to look at John. After exchanging glances, we both turned and started walking towards the exit.

“Stop right there…” Armond drawled, leaning back in his chair. “Do you think you have it all just because I’ve extended this little bit of kindness towards you? I don’t think that’s a good habit to have.”

Hearing this, John swiveled around to look at him. “You’re a scumbag who’s worse than a sewer rat, and you want us to thank you?”

“Wow, listen to the shit that is coming out of that mouth of yours! I can’t stand it.”

John’s retort had angered Armond. He stood up and left his desk, choosing to sit down at the sofa. As he sat down leisurely, his eyes were flashing with murderous rage. “What do you think this place is? A supermarket? Did you really think I would let you walk out of here so easily?”

“Dear me, no. It’s been a long time since I’ve condescended to go to a supermarket, so I’m not as familiar with its layout as you are,” John retaliated with a perfectly cool expression. His eyes danced with malice as he stared right back at Armond, waiting for him to snap.

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Although Armond had a twisted personality, he wasn’t very good at responding to verbal attacks. John’s mocking statement made his veins bulge green with anger. He was so furious that he couldn’t speak—instead, he snapped his fingers loudly and called his bodyguards into the room.

In barely a few moments, John and I were completely surrounded.

“Originally, I was going to let you off the hook on account of my relationship with Scarlett. Since you’re so desperate to die, however, you can’t blame me for what I’m about to do.” Armond stared coldly at John, his eyes flashing with murderous rage. “Take him away.”

As soon as he spoke, two bodyguards made their way over to John.

However, Armond had forgotten that John was a good fighter too. When he last saved me, he had managed to beat a fat, disgusting man with one flying kick. Before the bodyguards even touched him, John had already responded. He sent one of them sprawling onto the floor with a kick, before rounding behind the other one and throwing him onto the floor. The bodyguards lay on the floor, stunned.

“Humph…” Armond scowled at his groaning bodyguards. He still seemed rather unruffled. “I’ll admit that I have underestimated you. But do you really think you can get out of here by beating my bodyguards alone?”

With his skills, John could easily take down five people by himself. With the need to protect my baby and I, he might have a slightly harder time, but victory would still be his.

caused a commotion here, the security guards in the rest of the building might come running. Faced with such a huge number

that moment, a voice that I had been anticipating rang out from

walked into the room, his black coat sweeping against the floor even as it hung from

into a frown. After thinking for a while, he turned to look at me. A look of realization appeared on his face. “Were

pretty fast of you. As expected from you, Armond,” I

to add insult to injury. He crowed, “If you have the time, I advise you to train your subordinates better. They couldn’t even do something as simple as

made the process sound rather simple, it had actually been far

Ashton to see me being tormented before his very eyes. This was a leverage he could use

their way into my body, and remained there even today. However, Ashton had found an antidote so I wouldn’t die. All this while, I pretended to be on the brink of death. Risking exposure, Armond’s man had changed my medication to reduce my suffering and improve my condition. This proved only one thing to me—Armond

it for Armond. My life was the best ransom for the baby. Because of this, I had pretended to commit suicide in front of Armond, and

will never be able to use me to

best way to make your opponent let

long as I wasn’t afraid of death, Ashton

Armond for this. The moment before my knife pierced my flesh, I had seen deep

the three of us, still looking

about it? You might not be afraid of death, but your two daughters are

the baby—it’s a satellite phone. It looks like a normal smartphone from the outside, but it connects to other phones by radio through orbiting satellites instead of

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blame him for that. You can take the rat out of the sewer, but you can’t take the sewer out of the rat. Why would he care about these sort of technological innovations?” Mocking others felt very good indeed. I let out a sigh of relief, feeling more relaxed than I had ever been.

expression changed again, this time to a very ugly one. His humiliation gave way

There were more than thirty of them, and they took out nearly a third of the room space, blocking the exit

brought this upon yourselves.” As soon as he finished speaking, Armond nodded at the bodyguards, and they

you to think carefully about what you’re going to do next. Are you going to stay here and bicker, or are you going to take the opportunity to escape

wasn’t very loud, but it reverberated through the quiet room. The bodyguards looked

his grudges. Armond had tried to trick us so many times,

country. Either way, he would be rotting in jail for many years

words were true, Armond gritted his teeth and shot

left the room. The room only returned to silence a full

able to get away this time,” I said, looking at the direction

exit, and searching every floor for a sign of Armond. Unless he had

left this

his arms around me and the child,

the plane home, I couldn’t help but feel like everything had been settled

I remembered the numerous babies in that house, and thought

I

to be his reason for redemption, but we had known each other after all, and I didn’t want his fate to be unknown

struck a deal. He will never return to the country again,” Ashton replied

in the successful execution

eyes were dark as ink. “He was the one who tricked Armond into

knew that. Then, why did he need to work

want me to say that it was because you were simply

was rather

deathly ill from Armond, he found me and offered his services. He had only had one condition, and that was for me to

suddenly felt a little

and hurt the people who meant the most to me. The moment he

For that

a hug. Patting me comfortingly, he said,

but Ashton said quickly, “It wasn’t me. It

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never wish my past suffering upon others. Luckily, the man I loved

of uneasiness still permeated my relief. “Marcus may not appreciate

Toby were just burdens. I doubt he would see them as fit bargaining chips for

on him. We’re basically even now, so you shouldn’t feel bad for him in

here. Let’s get rid of any bad luck

wives’ tale. She had arrived bright and early at the Stovall residence, insisting on burning sage to get rid of any ill

in to her

me into the living room. It seemed as lively

unusually lonely figure out of

at the foot of the staircase, smiling awkwardly but not daring to approach the

out to her. “Are you not happy that I’m

her name. She replied happily, “Of course not! I’ve been waiting for all of

want to come here and see how

over excitedly and took the baby from my arms. She cooed

incident. She must have been suffering almost as much as we