When There Is Nothing Left But Love

He let out a sigh and turned toward Rebecca. “You can choose to either leave K City forever or get arrested for breaking and entering.”

Rebecca went pale and shook her head in disbelief. “You can’t do this to me, Ash! You promised my brother you’d take good care of me!”

Ashton shot her a fierce glare and said coldly, “You mentioning your brother now only disgusts me further. In fact, his biggest failure in life is having a sister like you.”

Rebecca had barely steadied herself after getting up from the floor when his words hit her like a sledgehammer and sent her falling back down again.

Ashton stared down at her as he continued, “For Parker’s sake, I’m willing to pay you any sum of money as compensation, but you tried to hurt my wife today, and I will not let it slide. You’re looking at three years in prison for first-degree burglary. Of course, you do have the option to take the money and leave K City, under the condition that you disappear from our sight forever!”

The murderous intent in his cold voice was palpable.

Rebecca had broken down completely and sat motionless on the floor while Joseph arrived with the police shortly after.

There were no security cameras in the villa, but Rebecca still had the knife in her hand when the police came in. Given Ashton’s power and influence, getting her jailed for burglary was no problem at all.

However, he didn’t say a word, and the police simply took Rebecca in for interrogation as per the normal procedure.

We were both quiet on the drive home. As I stared blankly out the window, I thought about what happened earlier. When did he get there? How much of our conversation did he overhear? Oh, this reminds me… He once told Rebecca that she could only give but not ask for love. That makes sense… After all, love that you only receive by asking isn’t worth anything.

Right then, he stopped the car by the side of the road, snapping me out of my train of thoughts. I looked at him in confusion and asked, “We’re not home yet?”

out of the car, and disappeared behind a corner on the

he offered while holding it out to me, but I just stared

whispered into my ear, “You can

hand feels so warm… Maybe it’s

looked up at him and said in a hoarse voice, “She didn’t break into the house. I was

the engine and nodded as he placed the box of

let the police take her away?”

let out a sigh and looked at me. “She has to learn her lesson, Scarlett. I won’t always be around to protect you, you know? What do you think

would’ve gotten stabbed,” I replied in a matter-of-fact

eyebrow at me. “Is that

might have

four years for you, and this is what I get in return? Having to

that, I kept

can’t guarantee that I’ll always be able to save you in the nick of time if

to do next?” I asked after

“Either have her leave K City forever, or sue her and

only build up and give rise to new conflict. We can’t punish her for something she hasn’t

planning on forcing her to leave instead,” he said with a stern