When There Is Nothing Left But Love

I nodded and smiled bleakly. After another thirty minutes of conversation, the voice on the other end of the line got softer and softer. She was probably getting sleepier by the minute.

A while later, I heard Ashton’s deep, low voice over the phone. “She has fallen asleep. I’ll send her back to her room first—wait for me to come back!”

I nodded. “Alright.”

I couldn’t help but yawn too—it had been a very long day. Five minutes later, I heard Ashton’s voice again. “Are you very tired today?”

I nodded and replied miserably, “Just a little!” I had been working from morning till night, and my entire body was wracked with fatigue.

“Have you washed up yet?”

I shut my eyes and nodded my head hastily. “Of course, I have.”

An odd thought floated into my head that very moment, and I found myself thinking about Armond and Nora. Rather hesitatingly, I ventured, “Ashton, what happens when you men can’t…you know…”

I heard him suck in a deep breath on the other end of the line. After a short pause, he asked, “Can’t what?”

Hearing his suggestive tone, I knew he was thinking all sorts of rubbish again. I opened my mouth and said, “It’s like this. Armond and Nora are in a relationship now, aren’t they? But Armond seems to have some sort of trauma regarding intimacy. I think it stems from something that happened to him in the past. What do you think he should do?”

After all, who could understand a man better than another man?

business, I suppose. Why are you poking your nose into it? Stop thinking so much and

in a dissatisfied voice, “Gosh,

again. “I’ll be coming over to A City tomorrow. What do you want

I replied, “Korean barbeque and Japanese

thank for that—she kept talking about them

“Alright then, sleep earlier. Make sure to shut the door and windows

said consolingly, “Alright, alright, I got it! You should

hanging up the call, I flipped myself out of bed and went to lock the door, after which I headed into the bathroom to wash up. Perhaps it was because work had tired

dews on green leaves

had slept very well indeed, so I felt

Since there was nothing going on that afternoon, everyone returned to the

the Fuller and Murphy Corporations was coming to an end in the next few days, and we would be turning our attentions to other projects. The completion of the base construction marked the end of

were like fire and ice in some aspects, she was flawless when it came to her job, and I

wasn’t a polite smile—rather, she looked as though she had just seen something she liked. It was a genuine smile, and

Bentley at the door of

it at

ran over to him at once and jumped into his arms. “Didn’t you say you were only going to arrive

really going to have both Korean barbeque and Japanese food for dinner? We might as well split it into two

my head. “Of course