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 me

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

so I hurriedly followed him. We entered a shop selling watches and

had an old signboard hanging above the entrance. There were

past the counter, where an elderly gentleman was examining an old watch using professional equipment carefully. He

space. As he took long strides, I

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

momentary silence, the wall right in front of me move aside and revealed

realized the red wine wasn’t a decoration

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

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

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

I entered, but an underground factory

floor, and below us was an assembly line. There were workers dressed in silver protective suits handling unknown bottles on the conveyor belt. I

“This way.”