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

woke up. I thought the sky had cleared, but

I was with Macy. But that night, the bedroom was empty. The lightning flashed across the night, and it was terrifying in the dark

nowhere to be seen. There

walked out barefoot, hoping

was

room downstairs, Rebecca stood there stubbornly,

home!” said

Rebecca’s lips curved up in an innocent smile. “You know

frail and delicate, especially since she was drenched, with her hair in a messy

gave in. “Go take

don’t have clean clothes to change into,”

which you brought here earlier, are still

the top of the stairs

sauntered into the

it was spacious. It could accommodate if Ashton and I had

come. I didn’t even know when Rebecca moved her clothes to the

How ridiculous!

guest room. It seemed like Rebecca

up as he strode toward the guest room. Suddenly, he

feeling a pang in my heart. “She is hurt. You should go check up on

“Scarlett!”