When There Is Nothing Left But Love

After getting rebuffed, Ashton looked away and smiled wryly. “I know the answer. It is no surprise to me.”

I smirked. “Who do you think I will pick?”

“I know you won’t pick me.” Ashton shrugged as disappointment flashed across his face. “But Scarlett, you’ll be my only choice no matter what.”

It seemed like he was joking, so I didn’t know how to react.

Without waiting for my response, he climbed out of the window deftly. “See you tomorrow.”

He then jumped and disappeared into the night.

I went to the window and looked around, but he was nowhere to be seen. I waited a while longer before closing the windows.

The next morning, I woke up early.

Eager to see my son, I dressed up for the occasion.

Marcus brought

thought it was going to be a long ride, but ten minutes after we entered the city, our car came to

the door and left, so I hurriedly followed him. We entered a shop selling watches and

old signboard hanging above the entrance. There were twelve clocks, each showing different time zones, on

old watch using professional equipment carefully.

into the inner space. As he took long strides, I had to dash to

room. Bottles of red wine were lined up on both sides of the walls, and there was a velvet

wine. After a momentary silence, the wall right in front of me move aside and revealed a door

when I realized the red wine wasn’t a decoration but the key to

take hundreds of attempts for someone to get the right key. Besides, no one would pay attention to the red

daze when Marcus stepped into the secret space. I scurried after him at once while peeking

that Marcus picked up as he was too fast, but I forced myself to

son as soon as I entered, but an

were on the second floor, and below us was an assembly line. There were workers dressed in silver protective suits handling

“This way.”