When There Is Nothing Left But Love

I still hadn’t forgiven him for forcing himself on me the previous night, so I pretended not to have heard him.

“Scarlett!” he repeated, this time more forceful.

“Gregory said he had never eaten his mother’s homemade breakfast, so I made some to coax him. Is that what you want too, Mr. Fuller? Then again, I wouldn’t want to make your stomach upset from my food,” I replied, still refusing to make eye contact with him.

My snarky tone riled Ashton up, and he was about to rebuke me when one of his staff announced, “Mr. Campbell has arrived, Mr. Fuller.”

Now that he had work to tend to, Ashton shot an angry glance at me before stalking out in a huff.

Once I could no longer hear footsteps, I snuck a glance at the stairs.

So it seems like Ashton isn’t that easy to provoke.

There were still no signs of the man coming back even after twenty minutes had passed. When the maid started to clear the table, I decided to ask if she knew where he was.

“Mr. Fuller is currently in the study with Mr. Campbell.”

was still around put a dampener on my mood as I trudged my way up

to the study, I could vaguely hear their voices from outside the room. I

of hesitation, I mustered up the

door opened almost immediately; it was Ashton who

door with no intention of letting me in.

lips and

not picky,” he answered after giving

a kid’s breakfast?” Is he trying to compete with

But given your personality, you don’t have to force yourself to make it if you don’t

Ashton nodded toward the stairs behind me, hinting that I

was about to do as instructed when I got hit by a sudden realization. “What do you take me for, Ashton? Did you bring me here so you

I could see

you

lips curled into a smirk. “Something you’d

he was keeping me in suspense, but even I had to agree that the temptation he threw out was too great

way back into the kitchen and made the same breakfast