When There Is Nothing Left But Love

“I can do it myself,” I exclaimed and took the towel from him.

But he refused and held the towel away from me.

The anger that I had been suppressing rose again. Pursing my lips, I glared at him. “Ashton…”

But before I could finish my sentence, he cupped my face and abruptly pressed his lips against mine.

I wanted to push him away, but it was futile. He locked me within his arms and kissed me hard as if it was a punishment from him. It made me breathless.

If he had not heard me gasping for air, he would have continued kissing.

As he released his grip on me, our eyes met for a moment, but I averted my gaze and ignored him.

He narrowed his eyes and pinched my chin forcefully. “Am I not the one who should be angry?”

He gazed at me gloomily as though he had been wronged.

I pushed his hand away and shot daggers at him. “Then you should go away and sulk. Leave me alone. I want to sleep.”

Ashton could not help but laugh at my words. “Scarlett, can you please be reasonable?”

“No!” I said defiantly. I know I’m throwing a fit, but I don’t care.

Seeing my attitude, he said no more and threw his coat aside before unbuttoning his shirt with his slender fingers.

As he stood there, removing his clothes gracefully in front of me, he smirked and gazed suggestively at me.

taking your clothes

duh.” As he spoke, the shirt on him was casually thrown on the ground, exposing his bare

away with my face flushing with embarrassment. It’s

heard him

“Ashton, you…”

also removed his pants and

a second before scrambling away from

reach the other side of the super king-sized bed, he had grabbed my ankle and

arms, I became infuriated instantly and gave him a cold-eyed stare. “What are you doing, Ashton? I want to sleep!”

he said gently, coaxing me into sleeping with him.

sounded naughty as we lay naked

me. Sensing that he was not going to do anything further, I eventually let

he wanted to

close my eyes and

from horrible nightmares about Summer. Fortunately, Ashton was by my side. He patted my back and comforted me whenever I needed

at six o’clock in the morning. Looking at the dim sky outside

Ashton still had his arms around me. After a moment of hesitation, I shifted a

moved as quietly as possible, I still woke him up. He opened his eyes

asked in a raspy

sit up,

he brought me back to his embrace. “It’s

arms again, I reached for my phone on the

he caught my hand