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

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

so I hurriedly followed him. We entered a

an old signboard hanging above the entrance. There

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

went into the inner space. As he

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

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

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

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

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

as he was too fast, but I forced myself to remember the direction. If I were to come

son as soon as I entered, but an underground factory

us was an assembly line. There were workers dressed in silver protective suits handling unknown bottles on the conveyor belt. I was too far to

“This way.”