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

going to be a long ride, but ten minutes

hurriedly followed

above the entrance. There were twelve clocks, each showing

an old watch using professional equipment carefully.

inner space. As he took long strides,

few turns in the house full of clocks, we finally arrived in a vast room. Bottles of red wine were lined up on both

took out one bottle of wine. After a momentary silence, the wall right in front of me

realized the red wine wasn’t a decoration but

and hundreds of bottles of red wine. It would take hundreds of attempts for someone to get the right key. Besides, no one would pay attention to the red wine as there were too

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

as he was too fast, but I forced myself to remember the direction. If I were to come here again,

I entered, but an underground factory appeared in

dressed in silver protective suits handling unknown bottles on the conveyor belt. I was too far to see what

“This way.”