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!”

woman turned and strutted off in the most pompous manner possible.

of her tone sounded like she was doing a

eyes closed, hoping to calm my emotions. I would have confronted her had Marcus not held me by the wrist. “Calm down. She meant to provoke you. It’s better to not act impulsively

…..

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

our cab was swiftly surrounded

that they had no good intentions. However, our driver was so unnerved as he articulated himself properly, “Who… Don’t be stupid… This is a law-abiding society… I’ll

to drag him out of the driver’s seat and have him subdued. Never mind calling the police, the man was so

backseat and located my position with pinpoint

as to what was going on. “I’ll cooperate,

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

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

with Rebecca. She would not be so banal

could not be Ashton either. He may be offish as heck, but I knew he was someone who always acted honorably. He would always either get someone to check in first whenever he needed to call on me or send Joseph to pick me up. He was not one to employ such a manner of