When There Is Nothing Left But Love

He seemed slightly disappointed and sighed, “Mr. Fuller is doing his best.”

“I know. He’s always been doing his best, which is why I feel safe handing Summer over to him.” I nodded with a smile.

“Are you planning to let Summer stay with Mr. Fuller permanently, Ms. Stovall?”

I shook my head. “I’ll come and get her as soon as possible. I don’t want to trouble him for too long. Besides, he isn’t obligated to take care of Summer.”

“Then who is?” A sudden voice piped up and surprised me.

I turned back and saw Ashton standing behind me. His expression was dark and his gaze cold. “Armond? Or perhaps you’ve found another guy who’s obligated to take care of her?”

His sudden appearance took me by surprise. Joseph had silently walked away after Ashton showed up.

At that moment, only Ashton and I were left at the scene, and I didn’t know what to say.

After a pause, I finally piped up. “Thanks for taking care of Summer, Ashton.”

He chuckled coldly. “No need to thank me. Don’t forget that she’s legally my daughter after all. The moment we actually get a divorce, I am completely fine with paying my alimony, but don’t even think about getting Summer back.”

“Is that a threat?”

“You could say so.”

not too ruffled by his words. “That might be better for all of us. After all, she’ll be much better off with you than she can ever be with me. You have money and power. Besides that, you can give her

was full of dark contempt, and he wasn’t trying to disguise

chuckled as well. “Thanks for the compliment,

If I were a man, he’d probably be beating me up right now.

marry into the Murphy family,” he hissed. He was probably holding back his

out a huge sigh of relief. I really hoped we wouldn’t see each other anymore after this. Our

bidding carried on until midnight. Armond wasn’t used to burning the midnight oil, so the moment we got into the car, he told me, “You take the wheel. I need to take a

thinking that he probably didn’t sleep well since he was hungover

I turned my phone on, I saw

wanted to respond, but since it was so late, I figured it might wake

decided to turn off my phone and head

very next day. After all, I assumed they would need at least

me aback was that the Murphy Corporation got chosen. Armond handed everything over to me and said, “You’ll be in charge of this project for now, and Linda will help. You can either go to

the chance to be that involved in this particular project. After all, only two days had passed from the moment I

didn’t reach out for the files, but instead, I stared at him and said, “You know I barely know anything about this project. I didn’t even write the proposal myself. It’s not fair

the files on the desk instead and replied, “I wrote the proposal. Besides, there’s still some time before the start-up date of this project. You can familiarize yourself with the project in the meantime,

me taking charge of this project. I knew that turning him down wouldn’t take me anywhere. After some thought, I asked, “When is

know,” he said. “Apart from us, they also chose the Cruise Corporation. So try your best to communicate with them as much as you can

and sighed before gathering the documents.