When There Is Nothing Left But Love

I was momentarily dumbstruck. Who was he referring to?

“What?”

Without saying anymore, he lowered his head and kissed me deeply. It was as though he wanted to swallow me alive.

He was being moody.

I noticed it when we were at the hotel. But, why?

I thought he was tired from work. But now, he didn’t seem to be tired at all.

In the bathroom’s permeating heat, his raging desire was full-on.

“Ashton!” I said, but he had already lifted me up in his arms.

He stopped his movements altogether. He stared at me with his dark eyes, and he was breathing heavily.

I was obviously bewildered.

“Are you angry?” I asked cautiously.

He looked at me with narrow eyes, but his gaze was soft and gentle as always.

“You don’t want to do it?” he asked hoarsely. His voice sounded restrained.

shook my head. “I want it. But

around me. With a low voice,

he headed straight to the bedroom and gently put me on

the first time for me to

fall asleep. My heart

past midnight when I was woken up to the sound of Ashton groaning in pain. I

was sweating profusely. With a frown on

having

woke him up.

arms tightly around me and said in a low and

my hand to comfort him.

hugged me as I wiped the sweat

me and drew in a deep, shaky breath. “There’s nothing but

years, I had Summer, who helped mend my broken heart. But he was suffering in the dark

“I won’t go anywhere as long as you need me.

that had sunk to the bottom of the sea. We needed each other to endure

up in the middle of the night, I was always surrounded by bleakness. It was as though you never existed in my life. Sometimes I wondered if I made you up and you were just an imaginary character because I was too lonely. The villa in J City always felt empty whenever I went there. I would then go to the cemetery to visit Grandma and Grandpa’s graves. Their tombstones were so real and clear that it made me wonder again if I was in a

ached as I took his hand in mine, interlocking our fingers together. “I’m

how to thrive in the world of business and taught me how to face my enemies. But he never taught me how

head as tears fell from my eyes. “I was too

the way it was. But I never really considered things from his

him. But I didn’t love him the

him what I was in my mind and didn’t fake a miscarriage