When There Is Nothing Left But Love Chapter 1688


    Chapter 1688 Riled Up


    Reba was looking at me strangely. It was a mixture of condescension and glee and something else


    I could not pinpoint. What I did know, however, was that it was making me ufortable.


    A loud bang suddenly echoed in the room. Ashton had stood up so abruptly that the chair had tipped


    over and crashed to the floor.


    He went to Roger inrge strides. Before I could react, he was already pulling the other man up by the


    cors. In one swift motion, he mmed thetter against the wall.


    “Ashton!” I eximed, hurriedly pulling the children to my side while covering Audrey’s eyes. “The


    children are watching!”


    He might have mellowed over time, but ever since the incident at the club, where he had smashed all


    of the alcohol on purpose, I knew that no amount of mellowing would change who he was at the core—


    brisk and authoritative. He would always be a man of action and, regrettably, impatience.


    It was why I knew that he would most definitely punch Roger if I did not say anything to stop him.


    Ashton paused briefly. When he moved next, it was to fling Roger by his cors in the direction of the


    doorway.


    Thetter stumbled and fell, wincing at the pain but not daring to say a word.


    “Get lost,” Ashton said with a tone of finality.


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    Roger scrambled.


    “Wow, I’ve never seen you so riled up before, Ashton,” Reba said airily. “I wonder why is that? Oh,


    could it be that you’re afraid of us knowing that your precious wife turns out to be damaged goods, just


    like me?”


    As soon as those words fell, a pair ofrge hands wrapped themselves around her neck and squeezed.


    Reba choked and struggled, wing at Ashton’s arm in a feeble attempt to make him let go, only to


    have those fingers tighten around her throat even further.


    From the way her face was slowly turning purple, I guessed that she wouldst another ten seconds


    before she ran out of air.


    Instead of begging for release, however, Reba remained staunchly defiant. There was even a hint


    of a smirk on her face as she gasped for breath like a dying fish. “Sore, aren’t we?” she croaked out


    each word with difficulty. “You didn’t want me but still ended up marrying damaged goo—ah!”


    There was a murderous glint in Ashton’s eyes as he squeezed just a little harder.


    I could not care less about Reba’s life, but I was not about to have my husbandmit murder.


    While what Roger had said did seem to imply that I had been assaulted, I knew for a fact that it did not


    happen.


    “You’re wrong,” I told Reba tonelessly. “Ashton was and still is the only man I’ve ever been with.”


    She widened her eyes incredulously at my words and tried to swivel her head to look at me. The action


    only caused her greater pain and difort, however, and she started struggling anew.


    Ashton did not let go. His grip was firm all the way until Reba’s eyes began rolling up the back of


    her head.


    He’s really going to end her. I immediately grabbed his arm. “Ashton! Let go! You’re going to jail if you


    do this! Do you want to leave me behind to raise the children on my own?”


    The effect was instantaneous. It was as if I had pped him awake. Ashton’s grip loosened, and


    Reba copsed to the floor, gasping and coughing.


    “No… You’re l-lying!” Her voice waspletely hoarse. “You can’t be… that lucky!”


    I was abruptly reminded of what John had told me. He said Reba had a baby as a result of sexual


    assault. She must have felt that this marked the beginning of her downhill rtionship with Ashton and


    her fall from grace.