In Love, Never Say Never

I still hadn’t forgiven him for forcing himself on me the previous night, so I pretended not to have heard him.

“Scarlett!” he repeated, this time more forceful.

“Gregory said he had never eaten his mother’s homemade breakfast, so I made some to coax him. Is that what you want too, Mr. Fuller? Then again, I wouldn’t want to make your stomach upset from my food,” I replied, still refusing to make eye contact with him.

My snarky tone riled Ashton up, and he was about to rebuke me when one of his staff announced, “Mr. Campbell has arrived, Mr. Fuller.”

Now that he had work to tend to, Ashton shot an angry glance at me before stalking out in a huff.

Once I could no longer hear footsteps, I snuck a glance at the stairs.

So it seems like Ashton isn’t that easy to provoke.

There were still no signs of the man coming back even after twenty minutes had passed. When the maid started to clear the table, I decided to ask if she knew where he was.

“Mr. Fuller is currently in the study with Mr. Campbell.”

still around put a dampener on my mood as I

study, I could vaguely hear their voices from outside the room. I tried to eavesdrop on their conversation by placing my ear against the door, but it was

up the

it was

the door with no intention of letting

lips and sulked. “Don’t

eat whatever Gregory had. I’m not picky,” he answered after giving it

 Is he trying to compete with his

yourself to make it if you don’t want to,

that, Ashton nodded toward the stairs behind me, hinting that I should take my

instructed when I got hit by a sudden realization. “What do you take me for, Ashton? Did you bring me here so you can order me around and

I could see Joseph behind him, holding on to a stack of documents. “Don’t you

are you two talking

lips curled into a smirk. “Something you’d surely be interested

so annoyed at the way he was keeping me in suspense, but even I had

into the kitchen and made