When There Is Nothing Left But Love

I was still recovering from the shock of what had just happened. My entire body felt completely numb.

Jared continued chattering next to me, but I didn’t register a single word he said. When Cameron and Zachary arrived in the room, Jared turned to look at me with a rather complicated expression on his face.

Cameron was the first to open his mouth. “Are you alright?”

I looked up at them and said in a dull tone, “If the both of you want to file a lawsuit against me, please go ahead.”

Cameron shook her head frantically. “No, we’re here to take a look at you! Ms. Stovall, you…”

Zachary interrupted her impatiently. “Alright, you’ve seen her. Let’s go and visit Rebecca now! This matter is over as far as I’m concerned.”

Jared helped me to bandage my wounds. As he gazed darkly after their retreating backs, he said with a frown, “I suppose the Moore family won’t be filing a lawsuit against you, then.”

Truthfully, I wasn’t afraid of what they might do to me. I bowed my head and stared at the wound on my arm.

Looking up at Jared again, I asked, “Nothing will happen to Ashton, right?”

He burst into laughter. “He didn’t sustain injuries to his lungs, so he’s fine. He’ll be alright after a few stitches, don’t worry about it.”

I nodded, still feeling a little uncertain.

Ashton jumped down from his hospital bed after the stitching and said to me, “Come on, let’s go home!”

exclaimed. “You’ve just come out of the operating room, and you’re looking for death

morning now. Mrs. Eriksen and Sally had returned to the villa. Jared and Joe went home, too. As for Rebecca, the Moore family

to sneak out against doctor’s orders, I managed to stop him with an

stunned. With a frown, he demanded, “Aren’t you tired

on his abdomen had been bandaged and were healing well, but I felt my heart ache just looking at them. “Lie down on your back,” I ordered.

lay back down obediently and patted the space next to him on the bed. “Lie here with me, or we’ll go home right

pressed my lips together in exasperation. There was no use in arguing with a sick person. Besides, I was pretty tired. To his delight, I lowered myself into his bed, trying to put as much distance between us as

around my body.

I had been holding back started flowing down

“Ashton, don’t you dare do this for me in the future. I

my chin up and looked deeply at me. “Does your heart

press a kiss on his lips. Because of my

he pushed me away lightly and mumbled, “Alright, that’s enough.

I couldn’t possibly

more ragged now. “Scarlett, stop fooling around. We’re at

After plastering his entire face with kisses, I lay

hospital, you know. If you want to

Haplessly, he tried to console me. “Do you really

We can make out as much as you want when we get home.

unfair. In a rather hoarse voice,

a deep, restrained voice, he replied, “You’re completely worth it. Everything I