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

but ten minutes after we entered the city,

left, so I hurriedly followed him. We entered a shop selling

above the entrance. There were twelve

walked past the counter, where an elderly gentleman was examining an old watch using

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

we finally arrived in a vast room. Bottles of red wine were lined up on both sides

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

realized the red wine wasn’t a decoration but the

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

into the secret space. I scurried after him at once while peeking at the wine bottle he picked

couldn’t remember which bottle exactly that Marcus picked up as he was too fast, but I forced myself to remember the direction. If I were to

as soon as I entered, but an

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

“This way.”