When There Is Nothing Left But Love

I completely forgot about that. “Yeah, sure. Do we go now? Or do we go later?” I nodded while answering.

“Let’s go in the evening. Then we can stay there for the night. I am not really up yet. I will need some time to get prepared. I’ll come to get you when I’m done.”

I nodded and said, “Okay, just call me by that time.”

Last night’s events suddenly replayed in my mind. I asked, “Were you okay last night? Why are you up so early today?” She did drink quite a lot last night.

She sighed, “Don’t talk about it. I was almost beaten up. If it weren’t because I wanted to pry Linda for information, I wouldn’t drink that much alcohol. Seriously, my head is still hurting!”

“Armond is not around?”

“Yeah, he seems to have something on. He went out early in the morning. My grandpa’s call woke me up, and I called you right away since I’m awake. I plan to sleep for a while more. Let’s go over later.” Her words were slurring. She must be getting sleepy.

“Alright, you get some sleep. I’ll read at home in the meantime. Do you want to come over for lunch since Armond is not around?”

“No thank you,” she rejected. “I don’t think I will be awake by that time. Besides, isn’t that expressionless guy at home right now? I am kind of intimidated by him, so I’ll pass.”

I smiled and didn’t insist.

After I hung up, I went straight into the study. Perhaps because this house was recently set up, there weren’t many books in the study. There were mostly some documents and magazines.

a book title caught my eye. Three Makes a Family. I reached for it

expect that Ashton would have such a wholesome book on his bookshelf. Since the book was to my liking,

me reading and smiling to myself when he came in. He sat down beside me and asked, “What are you reading? You are smiling

hand to touch my face. “Do

grinned from ear to ear and announced,

at what he said. “A good love story makes the readers feel blissful as well. The characters

and asked, “So when are you coming back to K City with me? We have a family

me to go back to K City again. I lowered my head a bit and thought about it. “We’ll think about it after

was planning to get divorced from him. A few days later,

are you thinking?” He pulled me into his arms and

“I am thinking of what to

“I may need to go out for a while. I will ask Joseph to send over some food

that I saw on his phone screen just now. That combination of numbers was familiar to me. Even after so many years, Rebecca did not intend to change

Rebecca is in

about it. A few calls came in, and it seemed to be very urgent.

lunch. Wait

my hand,

get a call from Rachel. She cut straight to the chase and asked,

then asked,

“Yeah.”