When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Tiffany seemed to have a clue after scrutinizing him for quite a while. The next second, she burst into laughter and yelled gleefully, “Hahaha! It must be retribution! Retribution indeed! See how he ends up paying the price for his heinous deed!”

The smile of schadenfreude on her face seemed to indicate that she had been expecting this moment long ago.

As a member of a prominent family with higher social status, Nicholas had his nose in the air. He was very particular about the excellence of the Halls’ new generation in order to maintain the prestige of the family. Ever since he discovered that Ashton had a genetic defect, he straight away treated him as an inferior who would be a stain for the Halls. Somehow things had turned the other way round. The so-called descendants of the excellent genes had betrayed him by adding insult to injury. I wonder how he feels being betrayed by his outstanding children whom he had nurtured throughout all these years!

This was indeed the typical materialistic phenomenon as observed in most of the well-to-do families. Clinking glasses with each other jovially at the feasts did not really mean anything. It was common that whenever any of their family members encountered financial crisis or other issues, the others who were self-centered would choose to ignore them and even cut their ties with them so they would not be affected.

Ashton looked at her with complex emotions in his eyes. After a while, he instructed Joseph, “Head straight for the Hall family’s villa in the western district.”

Upon hearing his words, there was a change in Tiffany’s expression. Her complacency was utterly erased by her agitation all of a sudden. ”What’s your intention? How did you find out about the place?”

have lost her mind and shrieked hysterically. There was even a

Ashton remained nonchalant at all the time. He turned calmly and gave Joseph a meaningful glance, hinting him to

gestured to his subordinates in order to drag Tiffany who was

had left, the living room was finally back to peacefulness again. Ashton turned and glanced at me before shifting his gaze away hastily. As we locked gazes momentarily a while ago, I could sense that he was troubled by something at the moment. However, he was pretending as if there was nothing amiss and moved back to sit beside

me most of the time. Yet if I could still sense something awry at the moment, it indicated that he was

to Tiffany, and Ashton would surely share it with me when it was time. Thus, I decided not to pressurize him into telling me at the

was a nobody for them. They were more curious about the motive behind Nathaniel’s sudden

them. Yet it’s really too much since he has the heart to put

any way. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that he was a pain in the neck. It was as if he was a fishbone stuck in our throats, invisible yet causing great discomfort to us. At the same time, we could not easily let our guards down, fearing that he might strike and put

act, it was inappropriate for us to make the first move. We

K City is still our turf and we know every corner well. No matter how mighty he is, he’s solely on his own.