When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Seeing that I had seen through his act, Ashton looked away in embarrassment and snapped, “That’s none of your business.”

He then placed his other hand on the steering wheel and took another drag of his cigarette. “Bear in mind that you’re just Scarlett’s substitute.”

Under a veil of the cigarette smoke, he drew a rather lonesome figure as if he had worn himself to a frazzle, trying to bear all the lies and deceptions in his life.

As he refused to say anything else, I had no choice but to stop pressing him for more information.

As the saying goes, you can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Moreover, with his personality, no one on earth could make him say something he refused to say.

An hour later, after he finished half a pack of his cigarettes, he finally started the car again and returned home.

Halfway through the journey, Gregory called and said he wanted a cake from the bakery we went to previously, so I asked Ashton to stop the car when we were passing by the mall.

When I was unfastening my seat belt, he said with a hint of contempt in his voice, “Why bother to get the cake by yourself? You can always get someone else to deliver it straight to the house.”

in my movement and rolled my eyes at him. “It’s more thoughtful to get it myself. Nah, I can’t blame you for not knowing this. How could Ashton, the genius in the business realm, understand the importance of sincerity? Don’t worry, you don’t need to come with me. I’ll go by myself while you wait for

Two minutes later, a well-built figure appeared and walked alongside me to

up and saw Ashton’s chin. “Didn’t you think

not even glance at me. “My son is worth the

guy is

whipped around and deliberately walked faster,

just one left. Overjoyed, I pointed at the cake and

in a hurry to close his business. He gave me a perfunctory smile, put the cake into a take-out box, and handed me the box without giving me

not care much and

and pressed

It’s for free?

close at seven?

 I had no other choice but to leave him a fifty

we walked towards the exit, I kept thinking about the