When There Is Nothing Left But Love

I heard her footsteps as she waltzed up to me. “His injuries look rather serious, so I’m surprised that he recovered this quickly. It’s just as well, so my courtesy call doesn’t come to waste.”

With that, she received the fruit basket from her agent and pushed it in front of us. “Oh, the traffic accident was a prank taken too far on my part. I hope we can see an amicable resolution to this. Let’s take it that it never happened.”

Her flighty tone told me that she was not at all apologetic.

This was not an olive branch. It was obvious that all she wanted was for us to turn a blind eye to it.

My face dimmed as I spoke coldly, “Who let you out?”

“Of course, it was the protector of the people, the lovable boys in blue.” Rebecca shrugged wantonly before she loosened her grip and outright chucked the fruit basket aside. She then leaned in with brazenness. “So long as I draw breath, you can expect no peace!”

“Enough!” My fists tightened until they trembled. “I’ll say this once again. I’m not Scarlett Stovall. Even if I was, you’ve no right to treat anyone this way!”

“Hmph,” Rebecca sneered, then stood herself upright with arms akimbo. “You’re afraid, Scarlett, as you should be.”

She paused before she laughed even more gleefully at this point. “The last time was just the appetizer. Look forward to the full course!”

and strutted off in the

of her tone sounded like she was doing a

my emotions. I would have confronted her had Marcus not held me by the wrist. “Calm down. She meant to provoke you.

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drive, seeing as to how he had just recovered from a serious ailment, so we could only hail

the first intersection when our cab was

formal dressing. It was obvious that they had no good intentions. However, our driver was so unnerved

them no effort to drag him out of the driver’s seat and have him subdued. Never mind calling

to the backseat and located my position with pinpoint accuracy.

us had any clue as to what was going on. “I’ll cooperate, but first

had not fully recovered. Now that trouble had come knocking again, I was determined not

up, but I quietly pinched him in on the wrist, imploring him to act with

not be so banal as

He would always either get someone to check in first whenever he needed to call