When There Is Nothing Left But Love

“By the way, my mom mentioned Nick is in K city. We should find some time and have a meal together. After all, we’re a family and I’m his sister. We should really have a meetup.”

“Sure. You can go ahead and make arrangements. We’ll travel down south after I get back from A City. It’s winter and it’ll be nice to go to the beach. You’ll love it.”

I nodded slightly at his proposal. His movements were gentle and light as he blew dry my hair. I snuggled in his embrace and started to doze off.

When he was finally done, he tucked me in and went to take a shower himself. I could sense him coming over to the bed and pulling me into his arms after he was done showering. I was so tired I just let him do whatever he wanted.

“Scarlett?” his breath tickled my ears as he mumbled my name. “Uh-huh,” I replied without opening my eyes.

His hands started fondling my body before he asked for permission. “Can we?”

I opened my eyes slightly when I understood what he was implying and met his compelling gaze. “It’s been a long time,” he added.

A hot flush spread across my cheeks, looking at him. “Well…”

I could not bring myself to say anything. It was not like I needed to say anything explicitly. Our actions were already enough to show what we both wanted.

and

get out of bed to send him off. I lay in bed and watched

he left, he stopped at the door and turned back with a smile on his face. “I almost forgot!” he said, dashing back to the bed and planting a kiss on my

shyly, the smile on his face

I still felt embarrassed in front of him. I continued sleeping after Ashton left. It was not until

“Letty, you up? What time are you coming over for lunch? I’ve just sent

eat something at home, mom. You don’t have to send the

Get out of bed and come

in the morning?” I sprang up and looked at the clock. It

the call, I got out of bed and got ready to

morning and he had not reached yet. I quickly packed some stuff and went over to

a lot when I saw him sleeping in Hunter’s arms. Emery was cooking in the kitchen. She shot me a smile and asked me

graduate school. “Hunter, sorry to bother you about law school again, but do you happen to have anything I can study to prepare for

the exam the