When There Is Nothing Left But Love

I brooded for a good long while. “Isn’t Nick Cameron’s biological son?” I asked Ashton, breaking the silence.

It was obvious how much Cameron loves Rebecca. But she treated Nick completely differently. She was negligent and dismissive of him.

Ashton started the engine. With his eyes on the road, he grunted in acknowledgment. “When Nick’s father married Cameron, his birth mother had already passed away from an accident. He was in his early teens when Cameron became his stepmother.”

Early teens. He was old enough by then. Nick did not feel much affection towards Cameron as well.

“Why did Cameron invite all of us for a meal?” Logically, I would be the last person she wants to meet.

At a red light, Ashton pulled the handbrake and turned to me. “Are you still feeling a grudge?”

“What grudge?” I was startled.

“Towards Cameron and Rebecca?”

I bit my lip and glanced towards Summer, who was fast asleep. “Life is long, we have to move forward one way or another,” I answered evasively.

It wasn’t possible for me to stay where I was. The matter with Macy and the child was out of my control. What was within my control was the ability to make my peace with it.

weren’t

was surprisingly easy. It was credited to Ashton’s influence within J City. He had good relations and decent financial capabilities. He must have pulled some strings to get the matter resolved for

register and smiled.

been

Grandpa told me to move it over here. But I was thinking of Grandma. She would be left

you and John

found him at Grandma’s and took him away. I think his registration was created by his father under the Stovall

K City. Have you ever thought about

I replied, nonplussed. It was twenty

county town was somehow acquainted with the heir apparent of the Stovall family from K City, and a famous merchant in J City. Scarlett, don’t you think that this is an astonishing

it was a coincidence. When she brought me out of R Province, she told me that old Mr. Fuller

at the time. Looking back at it now, however, it did seem strange. Grandma spent her entire life in a tiny county within R Province. How on earth did she come to befriend a

thought about it, the more it gnawed at me. Now that Grandma was gone, I

no use in investigating about the past. Forget about it. It’s cold outside, let’s

to Peakville Estate. She may not like the sudden change, so Jackson and I agreed to

got home

pulled up and I threw open the door, Ashton appeared to lift me up in his arms before

moments of startled silence, I said, “Ashton, let me down. I can walk on