When There Is Nothing Left But Love

I racked my brains and mentioned a few dishes.

“I’ll be home in fifteen minutes!”

After hanging up, Mrs. Eriksen giggled. “What a loving couple. Letty, why don’t you plan for another child in spring? I can’t wait to see that.”

I was taken aback. Another child?

I’ve never thought of having another child after the miscarriage. I couldn’t even protect my first child, so I dared not dream of having another.

“Scarlett, you’re far more ruthless than I imagine!” Out of nowhere, Sally rushed in and smashed my bowl onto the ground. “Did I ever offend you? Why are you forcing me into a corner?” she pointed at me and demanded angrily.

Huh?

I frowned in confusion. “What did I do?”

“The incident from ten years ago is all over the news. Besides the three dead Whites, you and I are the only ones in the know. Tell me. Why would I ruin my own reputation? That leaves only you, Scarlett. There’s no one else!”

As fury overcame her, she picked up a shard of broken glass on the ground and came for my face.

it. The glass shard was about to slit my cheek when someone suddenly grabbed the glass shard in Sally’s

I looked up and saw Ashton. Blood had started to trickle down from his

Sally away and gazed at Ashton with

open his palm. The glass shard had

his

regained her composure on the ground. Instead of getting to her feet, she told Ashton,

he returned, “Even if she’s cruel, she’d never try to slash another woman’s face with a

of anger crept into his

she had ruined the rest of my life! Ashton, don’t be fooled

landed on me.

blood pooling in his palm, I told Mrs. Eriksen to get the first aid kit. “I

good at putting up an act, huh?” She yelled, “Weren’t you the one who told the reporter why I married Benjamin ten years

revealed this piece of

I’ve never told

me as his brows snapped together.

my head,

trust her. You’d better have evidence before touching her. Otherwise, I’ll make you pay for your

dead, and she’s the only person alive who knows the truth. Why would