When There Is Nothing Left But Love Chapter 304
“What nonsense are you spouting, Scarlett?” Sally widened her eyes and shot me an incredulous stare
before eximing, “You’re crazy. You’re absolutely crazy!”
I felt rancor toward this woman and couldn’t help but find herughable. “You personally sent the White
family to their death—three lives in total. Aren’t you afraid of retribution? You were the one who forced
them to their deaths!”
“I didn’t!” Sally roared. “Scarlett, I won’t pursue this matter since you’re Ashton’s wife, so you’d better
stop running your mouth or I’ll exercise my right to sue you for nder and false usations.”
My lips curled into a sneer. “Sure, go ahead. As long as you can sleep peacefully at night instead of
being haunted by your conscience; as long as you can let go of those three lives, go ahead and sue
me!”
Sally’s chest heaved from so much anger that she couldn’t speak for a long time as she red at me.
Finally, she sneered. “Why are you so sad that Marcus is dead, Scarlett? Are you in love with him? Are
you heartbroken? Are you reluctant to part with him? Don’t forget whose wife you are and what you
should and should not say.”
Hah!
It’s so crazy how people can be so shameless.
It started snowing heavily just then. Large snowkes fell from the gloomy sky and onto the ring pool
of crimson blood on the ground. Before long, it was covered with ayer of white snow so thick that I
could barely make out the blood beneath it, as though everything that happened earlier was only a bad
dream.
Ashton brought me back to the vi and never once spoke during the whole journey. Neither did I have
the urge to talk as the image of the pool of blood Marcus left behind weighed on my heart and mind
along with self-me and guilt.
If only I had noticed the changes in him sooner and realized that he had lost faith, I could’ve ignored
the gossips and Ashton’s jealousy to apany him through this period of time. If I did, perhaps things
wouldn’t have turned out this way for him.
It’s because of me. I was selfish and too guarded. It’s all my fault!
The night sky darkened to an inky ck and the snow outside was getting heavier. My mind kept
reying the scene of Marcus closing his eyes for thest time.
It was so maddening that I went downstairs and out to the yard, wanting to use the cold winter to drive
away the resentment and pain overwhelming my heart.
But there was no way to erase the guilt buried deep within me. The harder I tried, the more violently the
memories of Marcus’ kindness flooded my mind, like raging torrents threatening to pull me under.
The guilt in my heart grew as though in correspondence with the falling snow. Molly came out with an
umbre. Seeing me covered in so much snow, she persuaded in a gentle tone, “Madam, let’s go
inside. The weather’s too cold. You might get frostbite like this.”
I looked at her in a daze and broke into a peculiar smile. Shaking my head at her, I murmured feebly,
“Molly, I’m so tired of living.”
She was taken aback for a moment, then quickly draped a coat she had brought out for me over my
shoulders before reaching out to tug on my hand. “Don’t say such things, child!”
Uponing in contact with my ice-cold hand, she gasped in shock. “Look at how cold your hands are!
Quick! Let’s go back inside. You’ll get a frostbite if you stay here.”
I remained motionless. The only way I could numb myself and have some semnce of relief was if I
stayed in this kind of harsh environment. Molly tugged on my hand a few times, but for someone who
was up in the years, she couldn’t make me budge an inch. Hence, she had no choice but to relent.
“Don’t fall asleep. I’ll go get Mr. Ashton. You’re putting your life in danger, child!”
After Ashton brought me home, he immediately went into his study. Probably having heard Molly’s
voice, he came downstairs right then.
He strode out of the vi with pursed lips. When he saw me standing rigidly in the snow, his face
darkened and he looked at Molly. “What’s going on?”
Molly shook her head and sighed. “Madam is acting strange.”
I raised my eyes to see Ashton who was d in all-ck. As I looked at him, a sense of detachment
and unfamiliarity rose in me. I shook my head weakly and said, “I’m fine!”
Wriggling my stiff toes, I began walking toward the vi, making sure to skirt around Ashton. Just like
my heart, my face had gone slightly numb from the cold.
Not knowing what happened, Molly asked with concern, “Mr. Ashton, Madam seems…”
Ashton replied in a low voice, “It’s fine. Go in and rest first.”
With that, he followed me into the living room and reached out to pull me. When he touched my frozen
hands, his eyes turned terrifyingly cold. “Are you punishing yourself because of him, Scarlett?”
I shook his hand off. For some reason, the sight of him filled me with loath and animosity. “Let go of
me!”
The sides of Ashton’s mouth tightened and his expression hardened.
He blocked my path while staring at me with a frightening glint in his eyes. Suddenly, he scooped me
into his arms and went directly to the bedroom on the second floor before cing me down in the
bathroom.
The heater was turned on in the bathroom. Swaddled in warmth, my thoughts became slightly jumbled
and hazy.
Seeing me staring nkly into space, Ashton stretched out his hands to undress me.
“Scarlett, everyone has their own lives to live. Don’t torture yourself, okay?” he advised in a
dispassionate tone.
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Indignation swelled in my heart. What does he mean everyone has their own lives to live? I pped his
hands away and uttered in an eerily cold voice, “Get out.”
My abrupt manifestation of anger took Ashton by surprise. After a brief moment, he narrowed his eyes
dangerously at me and growled, “You are my wife, Scarlett!”
“So what if I am?” I yelled. “Yes, I’m your wife, but you failed to protect your own child; you failed to
protect me. Marcus was the one who did all of this. Without him, do you think I’d be able to stand here
in front of you, alive and breathing? To put it bluntly, I’d be dead if it wasn’t for him.”