When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Then I recalled seeing her with a man downstairs yesterday, so I pried some more, “Was that your boyfriend yesterday? The one who came to fetch you downstairs?”

She froze for a moment as surprise came over her. “What?”

“The handsome fellow in the black Cadillac. Is he your boyfriend?” It was just a casual question, and yet she seemed so skittish.

I joked, “I saw you two by chance. Why are you so nervous? Don’t worry, a married woman such as I can’t possibly steal him away.”

Her smile seemed a little forced. “Ms. Stovall, I don’t mean that. You know how I refrain from talking about my private life with the people here. Moreover, there are many women in the company, all of whom have pledged not to get married or have children for at least five years of working here.”

Fuller Corporation was a good place to work in, but George Fuller had set a rule that female employees were not allowed to develop romantic relationships or have children within their first five years of working here. He took into account that women might take maternity leave and marriage leave sometime during their employment, which would affect their work.

This rule was unreasonable in the first place, so after Ashton took over the company, it was basically pushed aside. However, because the rule was set by George, his grandfather, it could not be removed directly. So, although this rule was written in black and white, female employees were allowed to keep their options open, and they would not be penalized for taking maternal leave or marriage leave.

But this was her private life after all, and I had no right to pry, so I smiled in return, “Well, I just happened to see you two together yesterday, and I got curious.”

I handed her the processed documents and said, “Here, get to work! Since Ashton has requested to check AC’s audit personally, you should probably put in more effort. In addition, please do a summary for the credit audit report.”

“Yes, Ms. Stovall!”

As she walked out of the office, I looked up at the clock. It was already noon.

That’s strange. Based on Ashton’s recent habits, he should have come to take me out to lunch by now.

snapped out of my thoughts to find Jared there. He seemed to be in

shorter and smaller than him, I could not

his brows and announced sternly, “Ashton got into a car accident. He’s been

Car accident?

was confused. He was fine just

compete in the National Championship with his set of

not say much after we got out of the

all the way, and very soon, we

to the ER, where Joe

catching his breath. We came

did not answer right away. Instead, he

followed his gaze and froze. Rebecca was there too. Her hair was unkempt, and the back of her hands

know what happened,” said Joe.

Ha!

to figure out what happened. Ashton must have been with Rebecca,

the patient’s family?” A doctor wearing a white coat

he alright?” Rebecca quickly rose to inquire when

himself, Jared was much calmer. He asked the doctor, “How is the

coma. We won’t know the specifics until he wakes up. Also, we found some glass fragments deep below the ribs, so we’d have to perform

“Me! Let

nodded and asked her, “Miss, what’s your relationship with the