When There Is Nothing Left But Love

“Mm.” Ashton took the laptop from him and placed it on the desk.

Glancing at my watch, I realized there was five minutes left before the half an hour was up. “Gregory, it isn’t time yet. Why did you stop playing?”

Gregory shook his head. “I’ve finished my coding. I want to play with Audrey.”

He took Audrey’s hand and offered, “Do you want to play with me?”

Audrey hopped excitedly. “Yeah!”

They exchanged gazes and laughed merrily before heading to Gregory’s room. Soon, we could hear their giggling from afar.

Ashton’s voice rang out behind me. “Is something up?”

“Yes.” I met his gaze before walking in slowly and sat down in a chair against the wall. “Since you’re recuperating at home, we need to talk.”

signaled for Joseph

an outsider.

Ashton turned and sat down in his chair. “You can

so I didn’t know where to begin. Lowering my head, I gathered my thoughts before looking up to speak. “You’ve gotten used to your status now,

“What status?” asked Ashton.

kids’ father, and the Stovall family’s live-in son-in-law,” I raised

dazed for a moment before coming back to his

my words, so I could continue with

“The kids should grow up together, and my brother can’t handle his business alone. I was thinking,

replying to my question, Ashton narrowed his gaze

knew what he was thinking, but he had lost his memory now, so I bit the bullet and charged forward. “I’ve suffered from two miscarriages and taken countless

logical and touching

trick Ashton, but I was

was swaying, so I hurriedly pressed on, “No matter how unreasonable I am, you’d always understand and accept me. Ashton, you said that yourself. Even if you don’t trust me, don’t you trust Joseph? He had been working for you over