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.

head. “I want it. But let’s not do it

arms around me. With a low

straight to the bedroom and gently put

me to sleep with him, but this time

couldn’t fall asleep. My heart ached as I

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

frown on his face, he kept crying out

having

woke him

me, he wrapped his arms tightly around me and said in

startled, then I reached out my

in bed, he hugged me as I wiped the sweat from his forehead.

hugged me and drew in a deep, shaky breath. “There’s nothing but darkness. You’re all I

that I was not the only one who was drowning in pain. For the past four years, I had Summer, who

“I won’t go

the only one who was lonely. Ashton and I were like two puppets that had sunk

“Look at this empty room. Every time I woke 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

his hand in mine, interlocking our

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

fell from

I had accepted my life the way it was. But I never really considered things

didn’t love

what I was in my mind and didn’t fake a miscarriage to deceive him and left him, he