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.

around and confronted, “What do you

do I want? How

right! Is there anything else you want from me?” I glared at him with

in a righteous manner, “I’ll turn a blind eye to the incident that has occurred

ridiculous! I have to work, for goodness’ sake! Marcus was merely drunk!” Halfway through my reply, I avoided his gaze due

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

eyes because 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, okay? You have been getting in touch with Rebecca while nothing’s going on between Marcus

conflict. I knew nothing was going

sudden. “Which part of me is being unreasonable? Besides, what makes

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

so sorry, okay? I’ll definitely stay away from Marcus in the future. I promise you I won’t

he was confused by my sudden change of attitude. “Scarlett, are

in to his request when 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 he isn’t going to let me off the

told you the things I have in mind! It’s up to you to believe

sentence, I brought myself upstairs because I couldn’t take it anymore-if the conversation went

my wrist

around and confronted him because I couldn’t suppress my

he requested, “Calm down, Scarlett. Let’s head upstairs after we get ourselves something to eat, okay? I’m hungry. Can you

around in the night. This time, it was my

had his lips pursed in an aggrieved manner while he showed me his hands. “I’ve accidentally hurt my hands during

hearing things when I heard the absurd reply from him. If I hadn’t witnessed the fight he had with Marcus, I would have fallen for

I guessed he must have accidentally

put on an innocent front when he was the aggressive one who had