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,

I want? How dare

else you want from me?” I glared at

deep breath and announced in a righteous manner, “I’ll turn a blind eye to the incident that has occurred today, but I want you to stay away from Marcus

sake! Marcus was merely drunk!” Halfway through my reply, I avoided his gaze due to the

rushed over and grasped my wrist because he couldn’t hold back his anger anymore. “Scarlett, what does it

he was frustrated for real. “Fine! I’ll try to stay away from him in the future. I’m conscious of the things I’m doing,

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

of me is being unreasonable? Besides, what makes you think something’s going on between

expression, I knew I had to bring the conversation to a halt. Otherwise,

stay away from Marcus in the future. I promise you I won’t get anywhere near

because he was confused by my sudden change of

his request when I hadn’t done anything wrong? Actually, what does he want? I can’t seem to talk any sense

I have told you the things I have in

soon as I finished my sentence, I brought myself upstairs because I couldn’t take it anymore-if the conversation went on any

grasped my

do you want?” I turned around and confronted him because I couldn’t

finally returned to his calm and collected self as he requested, “Calm down, Scarlett. Let’s head upstairs

maids weren’t around in the night. This time, it was my turn to express my

an aggrieved manner while he showed me his hands. “I’ve accidentally hurt my hands

 I thought I was hearing things when I heard the absurd reply from him. If

have accidentally hurt himself when he got all

audacity to put on