When There Is Nothing Left But Love

When There Is Nothing Left But Love Chapter 540

He’s back?

“When did he get back?”

“Around five o’clock.”

I wasn’t sure whether to cry or to laugh from the sheer absurdity.

If he had come back so early, it meant that he was anxious to have dinner with me, as was written on the note. If he had never once come upstairs to the bedroom, it meant that he still felt resentful.

Forget it.

I smiled weakly at Flora. “You guys go ahead. I’m not hungry.”

Maybe it would be easier on both of us if we didn’t see each other.

Flora opened her mouth as if to say something, but kept quiet and went back downstairs.

I went back to the bed and stared at the ceiling, trying to fall asleep but to no avail.

The room gradually grew darker and darker as I stared blankly into space.

The bedroom door swung open, and I instantly shut my eyes closed. I heard heavy footsteps and breathing, and I knew it was him.

There was the sound of water coming from the bathroom as I kept my eyes shut, knowing that he had just exited the bathroom.

He sat down on his side of the bed. I assumed that he was going to sleep in the study tonight.

felt the weight of the mattress shift below me and heard the sound of the bedside lamp being switched

breathing

slowly ticked by. I couldn’t fall asleep, but by the sound of Ashton’s soft breathing, I guessed

my eyes, freezing in place

mouth when he reached forward and wrapped me in his embrace. “Flora said that you threw up your breakfast this morning, and that you didn’t eat anything for the rest of the day,” he

I argued, my body stiff in

my soul. “Scarlett, I’m a man. You can’t blame me for losing my temper when I

talking

I nodded silently.

inched closer to me, pressing his face into the

surely working the stiffness out of my

I went on, “If it was about the baby, then you can ask me. No matter what it

his head and kissed the corner of my mouth. “That was

for fear that

asleep that night listening to his

When I came to the next day, there was a

the flowers: Eat your meals.

heart has a home, the person will always

the card down and crawling out of bed to wash up. Downstairs, Flora seemed to be

want to eat it, but Ashton was probably going to call Flora to check if I had eaten or

a little bit of the

that I was heading out, Flora scurried after

I nodded.

Mr. Fuller said to inform him when and where you are at

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