When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Ashton nodded. “Are you hungry?”

I suddenly felt as though he was the one taking care of me instead of the other way round.

I parroted his question back to him. “Are you hungry?”

Cameron stirred in her sleep and woke up. She stared at Ashton and I for a few seconds before looking at the time on her phone.

Seeing that it was already past noon, she got up and poured me a glass of water. “Here, drink something. Your father went home to make lunch. He should be back any minute.”

I froze for a moment before taking the glass of water from her. I turned to Ashton and asked, “How are you feeling? Do you feel any better?”

He nodded. “It doesn’t hurt as much anymore.”

Cameron got up and headed to the toilet. When she came back out, she wiped her hands on a paper towel and asked, “What do the both of you fancy for lunch?”

Ashton shook his head, expressing his indifference. He turned to me and asked, “Do you have anything you want to eat?”

I thought for a while before shrugging. “Anything’s fine!”

Off the top of my head, I couldn’t think of anything I really wanted to eat.

Cameron picked up her bag and left the room. My phone, which I had neglected since coming into the hospital, rang loudly all of a sudden. Emery was calling me.

She sounded rather sharp over the phone. “How are you doing? Are you feeling alright? Which hospital did they send you to?”

at a hospital in W City right now. I’ll only make my way back

before saying, “I know you’re in W City. I

Hospital. Is there

be coming to look for you in a short while. Have you eaten

a glance out of the window, I stammered, “When

of fact. Let’s talk more later. Send me the hospital

at me and

don’t think we should let

nodded. “Go and pick her up, then. Be

to change his bandages. With that, I turned

she would be taking a cab to the hospital and told me not to go and pick her up. However, I still felt a little worried for her. I called a cab for her

far from the airport. Emery arrived half an hour later and stowed her luggage

loose and drab, it was quite obvious that her stomach

the drawers, she turned to me and asked, “It’s going to be new year’s eve soon, and it has started to snow heavily in K City. Are the both of you going to celebrate the new year in W

actually decided yet. Ashton is heavily injured, so he might have to stay here

finished putting her clothes away and shot me a side glance, looking rather solemn. “The Crest

family didn’t hire a man to do it—it was Jared Crest himself. He never really got over the incident with the Fullers’ youngest daughter, and Macy leaving him proved to be the

a mess. What else does he have to live for? Most grudges are best left in the past or resolved—otherwise, you start going crazy

and mulled over her words. Life was full of twists and turns. How could

“What did

“I’m not sure, actually. Ashton seems to have no intention of investigating the situation further. Instead,

or six now. He’ll be in his forties by the time he’s released from prison. Since he’s a member