When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Three days after Ashton and Joseph had left, the Facebook account of a news channel in Dartan announced that the country’s homegrown air-conditioner manufacturing company was in the final stage of acquiring Eisen Corporation. Ashton sounded enervated when he gave me a call in the evening.

“I supposed it wasn’t smooth sailing?” I asked.

“Yeah…” He let out a deep sigh. “I’m working things out on the other side. There might be a chance of turning the tables.”

“And what would that be?”

“You’ll get the details later on. It’s not the right time to talk about it yet. How are you feeling these couple of days? Any pregnancy sickness?” He curtly changed the topic.

Perhaps he needed some good news to counterbalance the bad ones that had been troubling the company recently. I was stunned momentarily before telling him that I had been fairly well and things were as usual. I felt sorry for him, though.

“I thought your life would be upside down without me by your side. It seems like I’m

Fuller. You’ve overestimated yourself.” I went with the flow and trifled with

seemed like my swagger had made

The acquisition of Eisen Corporation would bring in almost ten billion. Without it, it’d

with what he wanted to say. “I’ll be back in a week the most.

thing again and again. Of course, I’d never forget that. “I know, I know. And

jealousy, Scarlett. Hahaha…”

the pretty ladies that I care

the phone aside. My peripheral vision caught sun rays

around the villa had doubled. The surveillance was watertight to the extent where

Ashton said on the phone, chills started to crawl down my spine.