When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Noticing my unease, Ashton reached out and pulled me into his arms, handing me an anti-anxiety pill. “Your family will not be harmed in any way. I promise you that.”

Ashton was not someone who made promises lightly, let alone make a promise about something he had no confidence in. Knowing that helped ease some of my stress.

“Let’s not get too ahead of ourselves,” John glanced at us through the reflection of the car mirror. “Looks like we have a long night ahead of us.”

The sentence had barely left his mouth when lightning struck outside. The trees on both sides of the road were shaking violently due to the strong wind as the deafening sounds of thunder filled the electric air.

This was not going to be a normal night.

After arriving home, I quickly washed up and put the kids to sleep before putting on a warm coat, heading downstairs to the living room.

John and Ashton were both already there. The former was resting his chin in one hand as he sat on the sofa with a gloomy expression, while the latter’s back was turned to me as he stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. Every time there was lightning outside, the sudden flash of brightness would cast a striking, lonely shadow of Ashton on the floor.

So they haven’t gotten any updates yet.

hardest part of

went well, Ashton’s men would find

night like this one would likely be our daily routine

night. My body was starting to display signs of fatigue, but my brain was

the rain turned from a heavy downpour

feet and pulled his coat on. “I’m going to pull the Hall residence apart brick by brick if it’s the last

we’d agreed on when putting together this plan: if an accident happened, we would go all out and not hold anything

police and we would end up being the ones at a disadvantage. That’s why

his tracks and glancing at the clock. “There’s still half an hour left to the time limit we gave them. Maybe there

seemed deep in thought for a second before finally looking at Ashton, letting him make the final decision. “You came up with this idea. You tell me:

explicitly blaming Ashton, but I could hear an

doubt he’d meant to direct his anger at Ashton; after all, our relatives were in danger, and