When There Is Nothing Left But Love

I discreetly exited the bedroom and headed towards Ashton’s room. The door to his room was left wide open, and his bed was neatly arranged. There were no signs of the man in that room.

I went downstairs and saw the caregiver preparing breakfast in the kitchen. She turned around when she heard some movement. “Ms. Stovall, you’re awake. Breakfast is ready, and they’re on the table. Feel free to dig in.”

I nodded and didn’t see anyone else around. “Did you see Mr. Fuller?”

She grinned, “Mr. Fuller had left in the early morning, saying he had something urgent to attend to in the city. He didn’t want to wake you up early, so he asked me to inform you that he will be having dinner with you tonight, so don’t be back too late.”

I nodded in silence. I presumed that he would be nervous about his project.

After breakfast, I strolled around the yard and saw Channing digging a patch there.

I greeted him as I approached, “Good morning, Mr. Oberick!”

He stopped digging when he saw me. “You’re awake. Have you had breakfast?”

I nodded and looked at what he was doing. “Mr. Oberick, are you planning to plant some flowers here?”

He laughed, “Fall is almost here. I want to plant some leek, so I could harvest them in the winter.”

Seeing that I was all alone, he asked, “Is Nora still asleep?”

I smiled and answered, “Let her sleep in a while longer. She slept late last night.”

“She doesn’t sleep at night and doesn’t wake up in the

in his tone,

was waiting by the villa’s entrance, glared at Nora. He was waiting to

villa as well. Ashton had mentioned in the morning that we would have

fresh ingredients

half a day of preparation, three dishes and a soup were done. I

pick up his phone despite me calling him multiple times, so I

looked at the time, and it was almost eight, but I didn’t hear any car coming back. Thus,

up the call after the phone rang for a few seconds. “Mrs.

is Ashton

know my reason for calling. “Mr. Fuller is still in the conference room. I’ll ask him to return

hung up. Staring at the

stand it, so I picked up my phone to

jumped up immediately and

that he was back. Immediately, I went to the door to

was only

and there was no

and answered, “Mrs. Fuller, Mr. Fuller had a business dinner to attend to, so he couldn’t make it. But he asked me to bring you this. He said it was from a restaurant famous for seafood, and it

dumbstruck as I stared at the hairy crabs on the box’s