When There Is Nothing Left But Love

At that thought, I could not suppress a bitter laugh. “They’ve thought things through, haven’t they? They even had the courtesy to keep my body in one piece.”

Ashton grimaced in anger. “Something like this will never happen again.”

I snuggled against him, confident that he would be investigating this thoroughly. “If you managed to find out who it was, I’d like to meet the person!”

Ashton grunted. His cold gaze resumed. “Take care of yourself and just leave the rest to me.”

I did not feel like going back to sleep now that I was up, maybe it was due to the fact that I had been sleeping so much I felt sick of it. “Not many people would hate me to the point of plotting my murder. The people who would actually dare to carry it out are even scarce.”

I couldn’t figure out who would be that bold to do such a thing.

Nora entered the ward. Her eyes looked swollen like she had been crying for a long time.

At the sight of me sitting up in bed, she paid no heed to Ashton and ran over to my other side and threw herself onto me. “You’re finally awake,” she sobbed. “You’ve been asleep for three whole days! I’d thought that you have left me behind and don’t want to take me to K City anymore.”

It hurt my still frail body to be embraced by two people at the same time.

It was a good thing that Armond arrived in time to pull Nora off of me. “She just woke up. Are you planning on knocking her out again?” he chided Nora.

“Don’t be preposterous!” Nora shoved Armond indignantly. “Scarlett is fine. She’ll always be.”

allergic to sesame,” she said guiltily. “If I knew that the matcha cheese had that amount of sesame in it, I would rather die than to have caused you

her hand. “It’s not your fault, Nora. It was mine for not noticing

to blame. “If you did not have that allergic reaction, we wouldn’t have come to the hospital, and you wouldn’t be abducted. It’s all my fault. If

Armond turned to

cast a meaningful look

did not understand. “Couldn’t you see what he looked like from the surveillance? Even if he had a mask on,

Ashton explained. “The man who took Scarlett into the morgue wasn’t the same man who had administered the sedative.” He frowned, deep in thought. “The man who made it into the

was silent for a while. “Does the

nothing but patted my back

said, in an attempt to keep the conversation positive. “Let’s eat before we do anything else. There’s still plenty to do in Lavelian Village. We

up. “Has the project in Lavelian Village

it has.”

still doubtful but did not

some food for me, then she

had just woken up. Nora’s cooking was delicious, but I could not

Ashton chastised as he saw

really not hungry, I don’t

“I’ll feed you.”