When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Argh! I guess I can’t out-talk him, huh?

“Thanks for the ride home!” I decided to keep my mouth shut and boarded the car as instructed.

He nodded and responded with a poker face.

When we were about to reach the villa, I couldn’t suppress the urge to ask him about the thing that had been bothering me. “Joseph, where’s your girlfriend?”

“I don’t have one, Mrs. Fuller!”

I nodded and remarked, “Well, I thought so. Otherwise, your girlfriend will have a hard time dealing with you.”

He took a peek at me for a few seconds before turning around to focus on the road. “Actually, I’m married.”

I was completely speechless and decided to wrap up our conversation because I was pretty sure I would get increasingly infuriated if I were to go on.

Once we were back in the villa, I got out of the car as soon as possible and strode my way into the living room.

I changed into a pair of indoor sandals in the foyer and noticed the light in the living room was switched on. There was a man in the living room, enjoying his cup of tea as he indulged himself in reading a book.

“A**hole!” I blurted out the things I had in my mind almost instantly.

He frowned and stared at me silently, but I ignored him and bounced my way up the stairs without any hesitation.

“Hold it right there, Scarlett!” Ashton broke the silence and raised his volume out of the blue, rendering me incapable of motion while I was on my way up the stairs.

confronted,

man burst out chuckling and asked rhetorically, “What do I want? How dare you raise your

Is there anything else you want from

a blind eye to the incident that has occurred today, but

merely drunk!” Halfway through my reply, I avoided his

my wrist because he couldn’t hold back his anger anymore. “Scarlett, what does it take to get you to

future. I’m conscious of the things I’m doing, okay? You have been getting in

mine to bring up Rebecca whenever we were involved in a conflict. I knew nothing was going on between the

all of a sudden. “Which part of me is being unreasonable? Besides, what makes you think something’s going on between Rebecca and

to bring the conversation to a halt. Otherwise, things

I’ll definitely stay away from Marcus

by my sudden change of attitude. “Scarlett, are you keeping

I hadn’t done anything wrong? Actually, what does he want? I can’t seem to talk any sense into him at all! I have done everything he wants, yet

breath and forced a smile. “Ashton, I have told you the things I have in mind! It’s up

because I couldn’t take it anymore-if the conversation went on any longer, I might pass out due

my wrist and stopped

heck do you want?” I turned around and confronted him because

finally returned to his calm and collected self as he requested, “Calm down, Scarlett. Let’s head upstairs after we get ourselves something to eat, okay? I’m hungry.

my turn to express my discontent. I yelled, “Can’t

showed

I heard the absurd reply from him. If I hadn’t witnessed

accidentally hurt himself

all?” He had the audacity to put on an