When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Saying no more, I went into the washroom to wash my face. She was already gone when I came out.

Stepping onto the soft carpeted floor in the corridor made me have a newfound appreciation for all the familiar things in my life.

“Ah!” a voice rang from a few yards away. It was Tessa.

I took a few steps forward and saw Tessa leaning against a black-suited man. She appeared to have sprained her ankle.

The man was someone all too familiar, someone I had been missing for such a long time. Bumping into him under such circumstances rendered me a little speechless as my steps hesitated.

“Sir, can you hold me, please? I think I have sprained my ankle,” Tessa said while wrapping her arms around Ashton’s.

The man raised his eyebrow and there was a perceptible distaste in his eyes. But the bearing of a gentleman in him would not allow him to push away a damsel in distress, hence he shot a side glance at Joseph, indicating him to take over.

Ashton then distanced himself from Tessa and was about to leave when his eyes met with mine. Not knowing what to say to him, I subconsciously wanted to avoid a direct encounter with him.

I turned around and started running away from his direction.

His steps, however, caught up with mine in no time and before I knew it, his familiar scent filled my nostrils as he held onto me from behind.

respond, Ashton pulled me

man’s lips landed on mine in a desperate

heartbeats were audible in the still air inside

as his passionate and fervent kiss had almost sucked out all the

moved his lips away from

arms had stopped my attempt to break away from his embrace as he spoke in his low and coarse voice, “How much further do you plan to

his rhetorical question, I didn’t stop him

in Venria. I still remember vividly what

I couldn’t make out his features clearly in the dark, but I could

onto my back as he asked, as though the moment he let go, I’ll make a dash

come to a reasonable response to the question, I opted for an ambiguous one.

frowned and asked tentatively, “To get away from

no explanation. It’s not the worst idea for him to misunderstand. Haven’t I already vowed to stay away from him since I won’t be able to promise him a future? It’s better to

a little as he

reply to him than to turn his question around, “The question you should be asking

frosty in the room as he now