When There Is Nothing Left But Love

“And it was all because I came to K City that I got to know Jared and Joe. Naomi got to know them as well. She became interested in Jared and I didn’t expect it at all. She always had a weird personality since she was young but she was never a scheming person. Besides, Jared was interested in someone else back then, he wasn’t interested in her at all. Naomi shamelessly pursued him for two whole years, and for some reason, Jared finally agreed to date her. Nonetheless, she took the initiative and broke up with him not too long after that. She probably found out that Jared likes someone else, so…”

“Why did she commit suicide then?” Naomi was an optimistic person. Even if her heart was broken, it shouldn’t have been the reason she chose to end her life.”

Ashton kept silent but I noticed that there was something wrong with his hand. It was the first time I saw him so anxious and uneasy.

He was trembling!

I reached out to take his hand but he managed to hold mine first. He looked up at me and I noticed that his eyes were getting watery. His voice choked as if he couldn’t get his words out all of a sudden.

“You don’t have to say it, Ashton. It’s okay,” I said and didn’t try to pursue the matter anymore.

A moment later, he sucked in a deep breath and he grew noticeably calmer. “I was the one who lost her that night. She called me so many times but I didn’t pick up. I didn’t do it on purpose. I just thought that it was one of her usual tantrums but I didn’t expect her to go to a nightclub herself. K City ten years ago is so different from the K City now. Naomi was destroyed that night.”

My heart skipped a beat when I recalled his conversation with Zachary at the hospital.

I stared at him and asked uncertainly, “Did Zachary’s men do it?”

her, she had already been left in the alley beside the nightclub. Her body

he said, “Those ten men ruined her face after they did such a

as my body trembled. The fear I was feeling made

was that she

use sulfuric acid to hurt me. He wouldn’t stoop so low as to use the same way to hurt me, he just wanted to

between you and those people. Why were they so ruthless?” Even if they had done it for revenge,

like Naomi was. Zachary was a powerful person and he kicked out most of the shady characters who were under him because he wanted to clear his guilty conscience as soon as possible. These people wanted to taint

unreasonable and I spat in anger, “How could they do

when it comes to searching for his daughter now. He would inquire about her privately and wouldn’t do anything relating to finding

could somewhat understand the situation now. So Jared blames Ashton for not answering Naomi’s calls. Otherwise, both of them could’ve managed to save her

through something like this, even if they were fortunate enough to survive, wouldn’t have had the courage to continue living

she chose to commit suicide. To her, ending her

it became a suffering that couldn’t be overcome in a

of us kept quiet the whole way back to the hospital. Once we arrived, the doctor gave him