When There Is Nothing Left But Love

“It’s my mom’s birthday tomorrow night. Wanna come along?” he asked. It seemed like our scandal meant nothing to him at all.

I massaged my temples, which were throbbing dully. “I’m not free. You should refute the rumor soon.”

Ashton was the only person I could ask for help to keep John away from us.

But right then, the rumor about Nick and me was a problem.

He fell silent for a moment before answering, “I’ll take care of that.”

“Alright,” I said tiredly. “Stop causing any more trouble!”

I didn’t know when John would come to J City. If Ashton got upset at me over the scandal and the nightmare from five years ago happened again, I’m afraid I couldn’t survive any longer.

Staying alive was the most important thing for me then.

After hanging up, I placed my phone aside before deciding to go to Ashton’s office.

This time, his office was quiet. Joseph wasn’t even there.

As the clacking sounds of the keyboard sounded from his office, I came to a stop outside and knocked on the door.

“Come in!” the man’s irresistible voice rang out.

the door open. When I

was still typing furiously on his

stood in front of his desk silently, watching him deal with

I’ll sign it later.” As he was too focused, he didn’t realize it was

standing

he frowned and stopped typing. When he looked up and saw me,

it?” he

had to explain

sarcastically. “Ms. Stovall, you need to talk about work?” he inquired in a tone

He sounded completely distant.

my lips and wrung my hands together tightly. “Ashton, I can

slept with him?” He raised a brow and

it quickly dawned on me

“Scarlett, do you think I’ll trust you?” he

Nick and I didn’t explain the rumors, the matter had

looked at me. “Ms. Stovall, you’re getting paid handsomely to work in Fuller Corporation. Please do not waste your time discussing

“Ash—”

this isn’t

Joseph was walking toward us. He shot me a polite smile. “Ms. Stovall, Mr. Fuller is

was asking me to

who obviously didn’t