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.

would be upside down

I went with the flow and trifled with his

seemed like my swagger had made

 at least he’s chuckling, meaning things weren’t that bad. The acquisition of Eisen Corporation would bring in almost ten billion.

he wanted to say. “I’ll be back in a week the most. Before I get back, stay at home and the

Zidd had been reminding me about the same thing again and again. Of course, I’d never forget that. “I know,

can smell jealousy, Scarlett. Hahaha…”

ladies that I care about, not you.

threw the phone aside. My peripheral vision caught sun rays peeking through the curtains. I got

and noticed that the number of bodyguards around the villa had doubled. The surveillance was watertight to the extent where every possible point of entry was

Ashton said on the phone, chills started to crawl down my spine. I could sense that a storm