Ashton, now overcome with emotion, could not take it anymore and left abruptly.
“What’s wrong with him? Does he really have to throw a tantrum in front of his sister?” Tiffany grumbled.
I immediately defended him, saying, “Since you know that he’s your brother, respect him. You have no right to comment about his rights and wrongs. Don’t judge him with your own shallow view of life.”
“Why are you getting so worked up, Scarlett? I can understand that Ashton is in a bad mood. That’s because we are family. But you’re not one of us. I don’t like to swallow my anger in front of other people.”
What? Ashton and I have been married for ten years, and yet she sees me as an outsider?
Ashton’s father hated and abandoned his own biological son, while his sister shows no respect to her own sister-in-law. The manners of the Hall family are surely eye-opening…
Fuming, I glared at her and growled, “Joseph, send our guest out.”
Ashton and I decided to go back to K City once everything regarded the funeral had been settled.
Ashton was now the only one left in the Fuller family. Just like the family home, most of the housekeepers in Uncle Charlie’s villa were dismissed. Only a few stayed to look after the villa.
The Fullers’ family home was now completely empty.
Before we departed, Ashton sat in the car and looked wistfully at the house where he had grown up in. Holding his hand in mine, I leaned on his shoulder and waited quietly. A few minutes later, he squeezed my hand and said to the chauffeur, “Let’s go.”
As Christopher was still alive, the plan to avenge his death became a joke. Ashton no longer had things to settle in J City and boarded the same plane back with me.
As expected, after we landed, the reporters swarmed us as soon as we reached the gate. Tom and the other bodyguards were escorting us, but still, we could not make it out of the crowd unscathed.
“Mr. Fuller, you’ve come back here with Ms. Stovall. Does that mean both of you are getting back together?”
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