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

I want? How dare you raise your volume against

right! Is there anything else you

deep breath and announced in a righteous manner, “I’ll turn a blind eye to the incident that has occurred today,

to work, for goodness’ sake! Marcus was merely drunk!” Halfway through

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

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 and me!

knew nothing was going on between the duo, but I couldn’t resist the urge to provoke

being unreasonable? Besides, what makes you think something’s going on between Rebecca and

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

from Marcus in the future. I promise

was confused by my sudden change of attitude.

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 hook

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

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

he grasped my wrist and

the heck do you want?” I turned around and confronted him because I couldn’t suppress my wrath

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 you make yourself something to

in an aggrieved manner while he showed me his

reply from him. If I hadn’t witnessed the fight he had with Marcus, I would

bruised. I guessed he must have accidentally hurt himself when

all?” He had the audacity to put on an innocent front when he was the aggressive one who had