When There Is Nothing Left But Love

In a fit of anger, I raised my leg and kicked Ashton off the bed. Completely caught off guard, he rolled off and landed on the carpeted floor, which undoubtedly cushioned his fall.

He sat up almost instantly and looked at me with a mixture of exasperation and amusement, the blazing fire in him seemingly doused. With his gaze still fixed on me, he growled, “You’ve got guts, Scarlett!”

I clutched my head and ignored his remark. Glaring at him, I spat, “If you touch me again, it won’t be so simple as getting kicked off the bed.”

With that, I pulled the blanket over myself, making sure to wrap it firmly around me before closing my eyes to sleep.

I didn’t expect that even without doing anything, Ashton would continue gazing at me with a sexually frustrated look on his face. After a long time, he finally went to the bathroom with a sulky expression.

With everything that happened, my head was hurting so badly I couldn’t fall asleep at all.

I fumbled for my phone and went through my contacts for John’s number.

The person who answered the call was a woman instead of John. Her voice sounded familiar, but I couldn’t seem to recall who it was.

Hence, I merely said, “Hi, I’m looking for John.”

The woman replied calmly, “He’s in the shower. He’ll probably be out in about five minutes. If you trust me enough, you can tell me and I’ll relay your message to him. If you don’t want to, you can call again after five minutes.”

I paused briefly before explaining, “I need his help to keep an eye on Marcus’ funeral matters as well as Sally. Thank you.”

responded in an amicable tone. After thanking her again, I hung up the

couldn’t put my finger on the woman’s identity, so I

long after I ended the call, Ashton came out of the bathroom with some vapor still clinging to his body. After wiping

turned so that my back was facing him. When he pulled me

me in with his arms and coaxed, “Behave. I

“Go away. I can’t sleep with you so

Either we sleep like this, or I’ll pull you closer to me. Of course, if you wanna join bodies, I’m all for it

A**hole…

…

of plotting the death of the family

Except for Benjamin who died a natural death, both Sharon and Marcus had committed suicide. Hence, it was clear that there was more

were prominent figures in K City. The fact that both their daughter and grandson had committed suicide didn’t add up. Hence, they ordered

and Sophia didn’t bring it to

for interrogation and barred from participating in anything related

even allowed to step into the White residence, the reason being that everything inside could

Sally was basically banned

since it was huge. The place that Ashton had previously arranged for Dr. Linnard was vacant ever since she

staring absent-mindedly at the show playing

villa just then and I couldn’t help but feel on edge since she had indirectly caused so many people’s