When There Is Nothing Left But Love

I gulped. Summoning all the courage I had left within me, I reached out and tugged Ashton’s sleeve gingerly. “Ash… Ashton?” I stammered.

A brief shudder ran through Ashton. With a start, he released Tiffany.

Tiffany crumpled to the floor like a rag doll.

The maid ran forward anxiously and helped Tiffany over to the sofa. All other eyes in the room, including that of Nicolas’, were fixed on Ashton simultaneously. Nicolas slammed his newspaper onto the table, jolting the already-frayed nerves of everyone present. “Are you trying to rebel against me?” he roared.

Ashton glanced at me, then down at Gregory, apparently unaffected by Nicolas’ outburst. He then looked over to Tiffany’s inert body with undisguised contempt.

He strolled over to where she lay feebly, then sneered, “Will you say it, or shall I make you?”

“I’ll admit it, I’ll confess to everything! Just have mercy on me. I was wrong, Ashton,” Tiffany babbled. She was almost incoherent with fear. Clenching the pillow she’d picked up from the sofa, Tiffany hid her face behind it as if she could thus avoid Ashton’s wrath.

professional and personal relationship with you. I was the one who manufactured Scarlett’s obituary. She didn’t betray

the floor and knelt at Ashton’s feet, clutching at him wildly. Tears

I could offer him from this nightmarish sequence of

stroked Gregory’s back, partly to comfort and partly to

accommodated to since she was young. Everything she ate or wore had to be of luxurious quality. Tiffany could get

world crashing down about her. She could not even begin to comprehend the bitter environment that Ashton had grown up in, in which

Tiffany got

had ignited, rather than extinguished, the fury within Ashton. Narrowing his eyes, Ashton looked

to explain?” Ashton snarled. The grimace he

He had watched his daughter’s disgrace without flinching. I thought I’d even seen a glimmer of loathing flash

moment, Nicolas replied smoothly, “I’d initially thought that you showed the most promise and was the one most set to inherit my position among the three of you. From the looks

a slight nod to the bodyguard who had been standing unobtrusively in the side of the room. He immediately fished out a stack of documents and spread them out on the