When There Is Nothing Left But Love

The moment he finished his sentence, the study room fell into an awkward silence.

Armond had revealed his trump card. Now, everyone was aware of his ambition to make a comeback by leveraging on petroleum.

“No,” I replied in a serious tone. “Armond’s reputation is in tatters, but how will we know if he won’t somehow reinvent himself and make a comeback? If he gains control of the oil, that would be equivalent to getting the backing of all the countries within Meudari. By then, the shockwaves he may cause won’t be something that we can handle.”

It doesn’t matter if I die. If my death could guarantee my family’s safety, then it would be well worth the risk. Even if I could somehow survive by a stroke of luck, I still couldn’t bear letting everyone else fall into such a dangerous predicament.

Armond had gone crazy. Since that was the case, he should be imprisoned for life instead of allowing him the opportunity to recover.

Louis and John remained silent. All they did was furrow their brows and looked at Ashton skeptically, waiting for his response.

It was obvious that they were considering Armond’s demands, or else I would not have heard about it. The Stovall family was only concerned about my survival and not about how great the risks were.

pleading look and shook my head solemnly.

Armond’s greed is boundless. Even if we give him the contract, we might still not get the antidote. Separately, I have contacted the most advanced medical researchers in the world and invested huge sums of money for them to analyze her disease. I believe we

surprised. “Why didn’t you tell me about it

did.” Ashton’s expression remained distant. “I told you that you can trust me. And that you

a terminal disease, I was always worried about my death despite claiming otherwise. Hence, I was mentally prepared for it to occur at

more solemn. “Don’t tell me you’re considering nobly sacrificing yourself? Thinking that your death would somehow grant us some ridiculous form of

sink, I furrowed my eyebrows as I had nothing to rebut him with. He didn’t care whether

a bottomless lake,

have a solution, let’s just ignore

stare swept across the room as he scowled. “How can you still have any appetite? I’m not hungry at

spoke, he stormed out of the room without even saying goodbye to Louis nor turning back to take another

before everyone else regained their