When There Is Nothing Left But Love

However, there wasn’t talk of any romantic liaisons between Marcus and “Scarlett”. I supposed it was because “Scarlett” was married to Ashton.

From an onlooker’s perspective, I thought there was something more to the situation.

I clicked on one of the articles. In it, I saw a photo of the late “Scarlett”.

The similarities in our appearance were uncanny. We looked almost identical other than her healthier glow and stronger-looking physique.

Absorbed in my sleuthing, I didn’t notice that Marcus’ meeting had ended. He entered the office and commented, “What are you looking at? You look like you’re in a trance.”

He stopped right in front of me, lowering his gaze to the phone in my hand. When he saw the contents of my browser, he laughed carelessly. He walked to his desk and asked, “Did you think you were the same person?”

His words unraveled my suspicions.

I left my seat and took a chair opposite him. “Don’t you think we look very alike?” I enlarged the image before passing him my phone.

Six years could change a person’s appearance, but there were embedded characteristics that time could never remove.

chair. He appraised my face seriously for

argued with him over the topic.

confirming and denying my

implying that while I was the spitting image of “Scarlett”, that was where our similarities ended. That’s

stared into his eyes. I recalled that Marcus had

“Scarlett”, why is he engaged to a woman who looks

work. Let’s go

could make sense of the questions in my head, Marcus stood up and began herding

my phone and

was struck with a thought. When I’m with Marcus, I accept all of his decisions unquestioningly. If he wants to change the topic of our conversation, I always let

out from nowhere, blocking his path.

the vehicle several times instead of

apologize or move his car.

knocked on the driver’s window, the car

good-natured person, though even he couldn’t help but frown at the driver’s rude and puzzling behavior. He didn’t want to waste time pursuing the driver whose car had already disappeared around the corner, so he