When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Although I was afraid of John, instinctively, I couldn’t bear to forsake him because we used to spend a lot of time together back in the day—he was a brother from another mother of mine in spite of the vicious things that he had done over the years.

Ashton’s body stiffened all of a sudden. He turned around and stared at me in disbelief. The initially wrathful man stopped and lost himself in the process of thought, with disappointment being written all over his face.

I stared at him and cast the baton that I had with me aside. As my vision blurred due to the torrents of grief that rushed out of my eyes, I got down on my knees and begged, “Stop it! He’s going to die for real!”

Ashton moved his lips in an attempt to say something, yet he seemed to be at a loss for words.

Mrs. Eriksen rushed out as soon as she heard the commotion. She shouted when she caught a glimpse of the horrifying scene. “Oh, God! What’s going on? What the hell is wrong with all of you?”

I ignored Ashton as I rushed over to John’s side.

His entire face was drenched in blood as he lay on the ground statically, behaving as though he had passed out.

“Hey! Are you okay? I’ll rush you to the hospital at once!” I tried to check on his leg because I recalled that Ashton had delivered a few kicks on his leg that had gone through a few surgical operations before.

The gravely injured man stopped me as he assured me with a bright grin, “It’s fine! Don’t worry! It doesn’t hurt at all!”

He shouldn’t have repeated the words of assurance that he used to tell me. I ended up wailing in front of him as tears gushed down my cheeks uncontrollably.

powerful force. Ashton glared at me and warned me, “You should stay away

feel Ashton’s wrath, I couldn’t possibly leave John alone when he needed me by his side during such a crisis. As a matter of fact, he had to go through a few surgical operations to regain the capability to walk normally

back against him at all. I was afraid that I wouldn’t get to stay away from John for the

beaten him up? If there’s

coughing and he puked a few

to shrug Ashton off once more, but due to the difference between our strengths, I couldn’t get his hands off of mine at

raised my voice and demanded, “Ashton, let go

insisted, “I want you to get inside

free, I leaned over and

him, he didn’t even

would happen to John soon, I moved away from Ashton and enunciated my warning, “If you refuse to move away from him, it’s

in the nick of time. He lugged me over and replied in

suppress his emotions any longer—he grasped my

anything that I could do about it anymore. I had to resort to something else and beg him to be merciful since he showed

once more. “I’ll return once he’s in

“Ha! Are you begging me because of some unworthy jerk? Scarlett, you never

him! I’m fine!” John struggled as he tried to bring himself up from

the ground. Judging from the wincing expression on his face, I was pretty sure that he