When There Is Nothing Left But Love

The minute Ashton became more serious, his tone changed and became much calmer. He looked down in sorrow. “I’m just fighting a battle with myself, aren’t I?”

I didn’t know what he meant, but I still found his sudden sorrow interesting and looked up subconsciously.

After successfully diverting my attention, he smiled and said self-deprecatingly, “Do you want to know about the ridiculous ideas I’ve been having recently? I started thinking about going back to the past and making different choices. Funny, isn’t it?”

I smiled and didn’t reply.

Sometimes, being imaginative was a good thing. At the very least, it meant that Ashton was beginning to let go of his dark past. Whether it was realistic or not was another story, because all I could ever really sense were whatever perverted thoughts he was having in his head every night.

“You should get a new hobby,” I said absentmindedly. He clearly had way too much free time on his hands.

Everyone was the same. The moment someone became too free, they would begin to overthink. The more one overthought, the more one would lose control of their emotions, and that was dangerous.

His smile became even brighter. “I’m happy with the life I’m leading right now. Having a wife and kids is my favorite hobby.”

if I could see the altar and the priest asking us to exchange our

if he had gone anywhere recently, like a sweet-talking 101 class, perhaps. He had recently become much too smooth with

there was an underlying innuendo directed at me. The moment I agreed,

decided not

grip again and became serious. “Let’s talk about the actual issue right now.

back for getting rid of the lovey-dovey

love and getting married, right? Since we’ll have to go through this sooner or later,

off with what he was

boy who was going to marry

“Kids are fickle creatures. Audrey’s only six! Are

He actually started thinking about it out loud with a frown on his face. “I guess it’s not a problem to have ten, or maybe twenty. Ah, but if Audrey

harem or something? Ten or twenty? What I meant was that you’re wrong for thinking that you can reduce the risks of