When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Chapter 1747 A Bug

“Have you finally reached your limit?” Supporting himself on his knees, Nathaniel bent down and leaned closer to me. He was smiling, but the smile did not reach his eyes. “Come, tell me—do you still love Ashton now?”

I swore I wanted to give it all up then, just as he wished. I wanted to scream to the world that I was done playing games and I could no longer care if Ashton insisted on walking toward his own doom.

However, the look in Nathaniel’s eyes sparked uncontrollable defiance within me. A voice in my head repeatedly reminded me that I was looking at a demon and not a man. The difference between them lay in the fact that a man knew how to show mercy while a demon didn’t, just like how a rat would never escape from the grasp of a cat.

Once the cat got tired of toying with it, certain death was the only fate that awaited the rat.

My gut feeling told me that if I admitted defeat now, none of us would survive.

At that moment, the call finally got through. A lady’s gentle voice rang out over the line. “Hello, this is the emergency services. How may I help you?”

a deep breath and ended the call. I got up to my feet and met Nathaniel’s puzzled gaze as I walked to Ashton’s

held his breath. But after

steadied myself again. I was

were, I finally found the answer I had been searching

that his eyes were glowing with suppressed rage.

me just

changed my mind and will join both of you. I’ll fork out all my money and play this game alongside Ashton. That

my words were not effective enough, I put on an innocent expression and an ambiguous smirk as I continued, “What’s wrong? Isn’t that what you have been waiting for? Aren’t you planning to pull Ashton down from his pedestal and imprison him in this hell of yours? Since I can’t stop you from doing it, I’ll fall into it together with him. Now that you have the two of us,

that Nathaniel didn’t just want to ruin Ashton’s reputation. He wanted to destroy him

was no way he would allow Ashton to have his way in this underground world of his. Once he realized that every one

them in this world, and