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.

your clothes off?” I

sleep, duh.” As he spoke, the shirt on him was casually thrown

my face

heard

“Ashton, you…”

him, he had also

a second before scrambling away

the other side of the super king-sized bed, he had grabbed

and gave him a cold-eyed stare. “What are you doing, Ashton? I

gently, coaxing me into sleeping with him. “It’s already past midnight. We should

as we

to do anything further, I eventually let my guard down

he wanted to stay

I opted to close

night, I barely slept. I kept jolting awake from horrible nightmares about Summer. Fortunately, Ashton was by my side. He patted my back and comforted

o’clock in the morning. Looking at the dim sky outside the hotel, I could not go back

of hesitation, I shifted a bit, trying to get out of his

as quietly as possible, I still woke

eyes on me, he asked in a

sit up, but he

realized that it was still early, so he brought me back to his embrace. “It’s

again, I reached for my

he caught my hand and