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.”

you are 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 to have that

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

to blame. “If you did not have that allergic reaction, we wouldn’t have come to the hospital, and you wouldn’t

him?” Armond turned to Ashton and

and cast

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

switch,” 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.

a while. “Does the

nothing but patted my back

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 would have to go

“Has the

it has.” Armond

was still doubtful but did not pursue the

brought some food for me, then she and Armond

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

Ashton chastised as he saw me

don’t feel like

“I’ll feed you.”