When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Picking me up, he glanced at Mrs. Eriksen, who had rushed out after hearing the commotion. “Get a cab for Ms. Larson!”

Mrs. Eriksen nodded profusely.

Rebecca had just recovered from the shock. She stared at us, her expression pale. “Ash,” she implored.

“Go back home!” Ashton told her before heading into the villa with me.

Behind us, I could hear Mrs. Eriksen saying, “Ms. Larson, here’s your cab.”

Back in the bedroom, Ashton placed me on the bed gently. He gazed at me and gave me a light peck. “Don’t act recklessly anymore. Otherwise…”

He didn’t finish his sentence. When his cool lips landed on my shoulder, leaving his mark there with a bite, I frowned slightly but said nothing.

After pulling up the covers for me, his phone started ringing on the bedside table. I glanced at it and realized it was Rebecca.

Ashton took a glance at it, but he didn’t answer her call.

After a few missed calls from Rebecca, she texted him.

The message read: Ash, please don’t leave me alone. After losing my brother, you’re the only one I have.

I wanted to smile, but there was a lump in my throat stopping me from doing so.

Ashton saw the text, too. He didn’t reply to it. Instead, he lit up a cigarette and went to the balcony to smoke quietly.

earlier incident as I

booming loudly when I finally woke up. I thought

was empty. The lightning flashed across the night, and it was terrifying in

on the light and looked around. Ashton was nowhere to be seen. There were a lot of cigarette stubs on the

wasn’t in the bedroom, I walked out barefoot, hoping to see him

was

room downstairs, Rebecca stood there stubbornly, utterly drenched. Her gaze

said Ashton

curved up in an innocent smile. “You know

and delicate, especially since she was

Ashton gave in. “Go

“But I don’t have clean clothes to

earlier, are still

of the stairs silently and

sauntered into

this villa because he thought it was spacious. It could accommodate if Ashton and I

on, I realized that day might never come. I didn’t even know when Rebecca moved

How ridiculous!

the guest room. It seemed like Rebecca

toward the guest room. Suddenly, he stopped midway and looked up, meeting my gaze. “You’re

my heart. “She is hurt. You

“Scarlett!”