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.

breakfast, Marcus

it was going to be a long ride, but ten minutes after we

followed him. We entered a shop selling

had an old signboard hanging above the entrance. There were twelve clocks, each showing

an elderly gentleman was examining an old watch using professional equipment carefully. He didn’t seem surprised at

As he took long

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

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

red wine wasn’t a decoration but the

wine racks 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

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

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

see my son as soon as I

was an assembly line. There were workers dressed in silver protective suits handling

“This way.”