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 brought

ten minutes after we entered the city, our car came

and left, so I hurriedly followed him. We

old signboard hanging above the entrance. There were twelve

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

elderly man and went into the inner space. As he took long strides, I had to dash to catch up to

of clocks, we finally arrived in a vast room. Bottles of red wine were lined up on both sides of the walls, and

one bottle of wine. After a momentary silence, the wall right

parted in surprise when I realized the red wine wasn’t a decoration but the

to get the right key. Besides, no one would pay attention to the red wine as there were too many bottles of

with me.” I was still in a daze when Marcus stepped into the secret space. I scurried after him at once while peeking at the wine bottle he

bottle exactly 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 least I wouldn’t be

soon as I entered, but an

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

“This way.”