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 doing so well

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

register and smiled. “There’s a third

your Household Register always been at R Province?” He suddenly

move it over here. But I

“Didn’t you and John

sent him to us, he was almost a grown man. The Stovalls found him at Grandma’s and took him away. I

Have you ever thought about why John’s father chose your grandmother out of all

circumstances at that time,” I replied, nonplussed. It was twenty years

a forlorn 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

did think that it was a coincidence. When she brought me out

strange. Grandma spent her entire life in a tiny county within R Province. How on earth did she come to befriend a man from a powerful family in

gnawed at me. Now

it. It’s cold outside, let’s

of moving with Summer to Peakville Estate. She may not like the sudden change, so

got home late to

lift me up in his arms before I had

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