When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Seeing that it was already getting late, I told him. “Ashton, it’s time for bed.”

Ashton put down his phone. Just then, the corner of his mouth turned up in a small smile as he set his penetrating dark eyes on me.

I pursed my lips and looked at him. I had always found this smile of his far too charming to be real.

“Why are you smiling?”

His eyes lit up as he exclaimed, “I’m happy!’

Well, duh, but what about?

He didn’t elaborate anymore. And since I didn’t want to probe any further, I made my way to the bedroom.

The sound of footsteps behind me got closer, and I soon found myself in Ashton’s tight embrace. His voice was low and sensual as he whispered, “You’re so pretty when you nag.”

“Could you be any cheesier?” I mocked.

Seriously, though, why would anyone like to be nagged at?

Brushing away my sarcastic remark, Ashton cuddled me as we got into bed. He then moved his palm onto my lower abdomen and asked softly, “Does it hurt?”

I froze for a moment. I had genuinely forgotten about the pain I had to endure when it got to my time of the month. He actually remembered?

head, I couldn’t help but laugh. “Can’t believe you remembered even though you’re so busy with work.

“I peeked at the memo

Oh… clever!

met Ashton’s gaze. “Ashton, shall we

smiled faded. “What’s

Jared had mentioned that keeping the vasectomy clips in for a long time would be bad for the body. It might even result in infertility. I really had expected Ashton to get them removed earlier. But so

statement might not be

gaze as he said solemnly, “It’s not

I raised

standings to continue to

even. Even though he kept his emotions out of it, one could still

a fair

silent, Ashton took my hand in his. “No hurry. We’ll

planned to fight for Summer’s custody, we didn’t have to use this as a means

chuckled. “Worried

seriously. If we want children, we ought to do it soon. The older I get, the more dangerous a high-risk pregnancy would be. If you lose both mother and child from that, you’d have

weren’t entirely true, but I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of having children. I knew he chose not to get the vasectomy reversal because of

important Summer was to me. If I lost her, my condition might worsen too. That was why he could bear with not

there was still so much to look forward to in our lives. Love felt forever only in the