Chapter 1678 Love
What?
I couldn’t help but widen my eyes in surprise at his unexpected answer. Shouldn’t he try his best to steer clear of it? Why did he admit to it right away? Did he no longer want to maintain the children’s impressions of him?
Summer, on the other hand, was relatively calm. She listened to it silently without giving any opinions as though she would only have to accept it and didn’t plan to judge him from the morality aspect.
In the end, she didn’t care much about us. It proved that to her, Ashton and I were merely someone related to her by blood. Aside from that, we were no different from the outsiders. Hence, the issue of our relationship wasn’t enough to cause her to lose her composure.
As the realization washed over me, I didn’t know if I should be glad.
The house fell into a dead silence for half a minute before Ashton’s low voice finally sounded. “She’s my deceased friend’s sister. I’ve always treated her as my biological sister, but I’ve cut ties with her now since she keeps crossing the lines and hurt your mom multiple times.”
Summer remained silent even after that. However, judging from her expression, she did pay heed to his explanation.
Ashton then curved his lips and asked with an implicative tone, “You don’t believe it?”
Eventually, Summer shook her head. “I do.”
After pausing briefly, she raised her eyes and added, “I’ll make her pay for what she’d done today.”
“Okay.” Ashton nodded. When something came to his mind in the next second, he remarked casually, “Ask the assistant to adjust your schedule. I need you to accompany us to J City tomorrow.”
“All right,” Summer blurted. After giving it a thought, she found his request inappropriate and voiced her concern. “But I’m afraid that if I’m away for a long time right after such a big deal happened to the club, they would…”
Yet, before she could finish her words, Ashton shook his index finger, cutting in, “Rest assured. Since they’ve achieved their goal already, they won’t make a move for now. Thus, go ahead and make the arrangement.”
“Got it. I’ll do it right away.” With that said, she bowed and left the room, not forgetting to close the door behind.
Once her footsteps receded away, I nudged him and asked, “Why are we going back to J City?”
With a hint of amusement in his eyes, he asked in return, “What do you think?”
Our hometown, J City, was full of our old acquaintances as well. Since Summer didn’t live there for a long time and was still so young back then, she would most probably harbor no feelings toward it. In that case, there would leave only one possibility, and that was Macy.
“Indeed, we should be visiting her soon.” Instantly, the realization caused a lump in my throat. Then, I lowered my eyes and continued mumbling under my breath, “And Grandpa as well. Audrey and Gregory haven’t been to his tombstone yet.”
Indeed, all the important people in my life got buried there.
At the thought of that, I couldn’t help but realize how small and insignificant life was. It was like holding a handful of sand when we wanted to grab on something dearly. The stronger we tightened our grip, the faster we lost it.
When a barrage of emotions welled up, they were written all over my face.
Immediately, Ashton pulled me into his embrace. He then squeezed my shoulder twice with his large hand and comforted me, “As long as we are doing well, they’ll be happy for us.”
Despite knowing that he was attempting to console me, I couldn’t help but feel emotional. As I leaned onto his chest, I sighed. “If it’s possible, I want to return to how we were in the past. Even though we didn’t love each other that much that time, at least everyone was still alive. They would not be the passerby in our lives that would disperse as soon as the wind blow.”
Hearing that, Ashton took in a deep breath, causing his chest to rise and fall intensely. “You can only hold grudges against me then.”
I got up and raised my head to look at his chin. “What nonsense are you talking about again? Didn’t we make a promise before to never talk about what Nicolas Hall had caused before? So, why are you blaming yourself again?”
“That’s not what I meant.” Ashton chuckled. He then put his hand at the back of my head and pushed me back into his embrace. Gently, he brushed over my hair as he uttered, “It’s because I can’t bring myself to love you any lesser. Otherwise, we’ll end up so much different today.”
At his words, I felt calm washed through me at once.
