When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Ashton’s eyebrows scrunched together, and his eyes were blazing scarlet. “How long has it been?”

How long? At this, I hesitated. Mulling it over, I realized that it’d been quite some time. Ever since I encountered Marcus, I’ve been seemingly nauseous out of the blue. Every time my mood takes a nosedive, the urge to vomit grips me.

“It’s been a while.” Perhaps I’m truly sick. Jared’s recent visits to see Summer, in particular, has such an occurrence transpiring all the more frequently.

Upon hearing this, his brows furrowed. Although he concealed his emotions well and kept them from showing on his face, I could sense that he was in a foul mood.

“Let’s make a trip to the hospital and have you checked out,” he suggested in a deep and aloof voice. His emotions were indiscernible unless one listened closely.

Irritated, I shoved him away since I wasn’t in the mood to bicker about this. My voice was a few decibels higher when I snapped, “I said I’m fine! I’m perfectly fine! Why can’t you get that into your head?”

At this, he froze, and I likewise reacted similarly. After all, this was the first time I’d ever spoken to him in such a manner after returning to K City, and my voice was even threaded with a hint of abhorrence.

All at once, I didn’t know what to do, so I opened my mouth to say something to salvage things. “I…”

However, I couldn’t utter a single word after an eternity had passed. Worse still, my stomach was suddenly churning all the more.

At this exact moment, Joseph arrived. When he came in, he was greeted by the sight of me and Ashton in a stalemate. Ashton subsequently looked at him and ordered, “Call and ask the deputy director of Medwin Hospital whether he’s free to attend to a patient now.”

As he clocked the odd atmosphere between me and Ashton, he fished out his

reins on my emotions snapped right then. I didn’t want to go to the hospital, so I

I roared uncontrollably, “I said I don’t want to go

lungs, “Ashton Fuller, just tell me directly if you want to send Summer away! I’ll leave with her, going to a faraway place instead of staying and being an eyesore to you! Why must you allow Jared to visit her every day? She’s my daughter! It is I, who raised her from young to this very day, watching as she babbled when learning to speak and toddling when learning

overly emotional, even a tad manic, but

painful from the initial surprise, followed by distress, my brows creased as understanding eluded

gaze to Joseph, but the look in his eyes was also different; it was stained

What’s wrong with me?

giving me no way out. The only consciousness I had was to curl up on the floor and clutch my head tightly while yanking

not sick! I’m

hour later when I was again in possession of my mental faculties, and Ashton was keeping watch beside me. My eyes darted around as

tugged at him and demanded, “Has Summer been taken

to him, he shook his head, his gaze tender. “Nope. She’s asleep in the bedroom.” Then, he hugged me tightly, his voice deep and enticing. “Jared won’t take her away. She’s forever

and listened to his heartbeat while nestling in his

I’ve been too busy lately that I neglected you. This is all

I shook my head even as I pursed my

then heaved a sigh before speaking in a soft voice as though discussing