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.

to help him up, but I was abruptly dragged away by a powerful force. Ashton glared at me and warned me, “You should stay

he needed me by his side during such a crisis. As a matter of fact, he had to go through a few surgical

was afraid that I wouldn’t get to stay away from John

you see that he’s hurt?” I tried to shrug him off because I was slightly infuriated. “Why have you beaten him up? If there’s anything that irritates you, why don’t you come at me instead? Is it necessary for you to take things

a few mouthfuls of blood a

but due to the difference between our strengths, I couldn’t get his hands off of

the eyes, I raised my

stern gaze in return and insisted, “I want you to get inside at

showed no intention of setting me free, I leaned over and

of the racking sensation that I had brought upon him, he didn’t even budge as though it wasn’t

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

the nick of time. He lugged me over and replied in a callous tone, “Scarlett, I can’t believe that you’re going to resort to such an extreme measure for his

man couldn’t suppress his emotions any longer—he grasped my hands without holding

anything that I could do about it anymore. I

his grip. I tried to beg him to show us some mercy once more. “I’ll return once he’s in the hospital! I won’t go anywhere without your consent! I’ll allow you to do anything that

because of some unworthy jerk? Scarlett,

struggled as he tried to bring

ground. Judging from the wincing expression on his face,