When There Is Nothing Left But Love

I was more excited than anyone to see him showing up safe and sound. I quickly went to hug him, and his warmth was proof that I wasn’t hallucinating. “You’re okay.” I was relieved.

“What brings you here anyway?” Ashton patted my head to calm me down. “Leave us, Joseph,” he said coolly.

Joseph left the room and closed the door on the way out. I let Ashton go and frowned at him. “Where were you? Why didn’t you take my call?”

Ashton asked me to sit down first and handed me a glass of water. “Here, calm your nerves.”

Obviously, I couldn’t. I put the glass of water aside and went back to my questions. “You’re hiding something, aren’t you? What didn’t you tell me?”

Ashton stared down in silence. His eyes seemed to darken a lot, keeping his secrets in the depths of his heart. I knew it. I knew I was right. Ashton was in big trouble.

till death do us part. That was the vow we took, and I intended to see

reflex. “Herman wanted me to sign the papers along with Thora,” he said

firm for quite a while. If Ashton were to sign it, he and the company would have to face the consequences if Pitcoin were to run into any trouble, including any

was a sly old fox after all. He would

you’re going with

You’re still sick. I can’t make any missteps,

should stop if it’s too risky. Ezra wouldn’t do anything either, since he’d prefer to maintain the status quo.

the competition, the better

once he was set on it, so I merely sighed. All I could do then was face the crisis with him. A moment ago I felt safe with him around. However, for some reason, he felt