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

to be a long ride, but ten minutes after we entered the

so I hurriedly followed him. We entered a shop selling

an old signboard hanging above the entrance. There were

elderly gentleman was examining an old watch using professional equipment

ignored the elderly man and went into the inner space. As he took long strides, I

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

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

I realized the red wine

were two 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 many bottles of

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

he was too fast, but I forced myself to

I entered, but an underground factory appeared in my

in silver protective suits handling unknown bottles on the conveyor belt.

“This way.”