When There Is Nothing Left But Love

I froze in shock, taken aback by his behavior. Just as I thought of lifting my arms to push him away, he’d caged me in against the walls of the elevator.

Luckily there’s no one else in the elevator, or we’ll all be in an awkward situation.

His closeness suffocated me, and I felt myself relaxing into his arms.

He swept me off my feet as the elevator doors opened, and he carried me straight to his room.

He switched on the lights in the hallway as he sat me down on the floor, pressing his body into mine. His gaze bored into mine as he said, “I’m not letting you go again.”

His words seemed to be directed at both himself and me.

I opened my mouth and replied breathily, “Ashton, I—”

“Shush, I don’t want to hear a single word!” He placed a finger on my lips.

I scrunched my lips and frowned at him. “Ashton, you jerk!”

Silently, he lifted me and strode towards the huge bed in the room.

He loomed over me on the bed. I turned my head away to avoid his gaze.

He turned my head back to face him. Staring intently at me, he sneered, “Trying to hide somewhere?”

exactly is happening right now? Are you planning

hardened as he replied, “Go

you before that I didn’t love you, yet here you are forcing me to stay, so isn’t that exactly what you want? I mean, that’s usually what

“You seem to know a lot

and refused to meet his stare. “I can’t help if

pushed him too far as he suddenly got up, taking a deep breath

after him, perplexed at his behavior.

like I’m trying to run away, like some headless chicken running around in circles

voice came through the receiver. “Scarlett, did you

made my headache worse, and I moved the phone further away from my ear. I replied a while later,

she asked, “You went home? With whom? Aren’t you living with Mr. Murphy? If you left without him,

Ugh! What a

a friend of mine from K City. Oh right, are you all still in

hard to last the night at my age. Oh right, I just wanted to let you know that

with drinks?” She must be trying to

I right? If I missed this chance, I wouldn’t have anything to boast about to my kid when I’m married to some mediocre man in the future. If I could bag myself a relationship with someone like that, that’d

appeared to be jammed when faced with her

maybe I can be your wing-woman. You can always drop by and

laughter. She sounded ecstatic like she was already imagining

“How about I drop by