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

thought it was going to be a long ride, but ten minutes after we entered

I hurriedly followed him. We entered a shop

the entrance. There were

gentleman was examining an old watch using professional equipment carefully. He

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

red wine were lined up on both sides of the walls, and there was a velvet couch in the middle

bottle of wine. After a momentary silence,

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

of red wine. It would take hundreds of attempts for someone to get the right key. Besides,

a daze when Marcus stepped into the secret space. I scurried

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

as soon as I

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

“This way.”