In Love, Never Say Never (Ashton Fuller and Scarlett Stovall) novel Chapter 592

Things always looked a little blurrier when you were staring at them using one eye instead of two.

John stepped into the room and brushed past the nurse, who couldn’t help but gaze admiringly at him. A man with his handsome looks was bound to attract female attention wherever he went.

He was probably used to it as well. He walked into the room and gazed down at me, his eyes full of worry. After glancing up and down my body, his eyes settled on the pinpricks of blood on the back of my hand.

“How did you manage to do that to yourself?”

I replied blithely, “My skin is too fair, I suppose. It was very difficult to find the veins.”

John frowned a little but didn’t say anything more. As he continued to gaze at me, he asked, “Well, how do you feel?”

I evaded his question expertly. “Have you found Summer?”

John nodded and replied, “Yes, we’ve already found him. Ashton suspected Kristina all along, but it wasn’t until he found Summer that he realized something was terribly off. That was when he went to look for you in the factory.”

I pursed my lips. Ashton was a very clever man indeed. Also, that taxi driver had disappointed me greatly! I thought he would at least be kind enough to help me call the police.

I couldn’t help but sigh. Strangers weren’t to be trusted, after all.

John looked at me with a strange expression on his face. “Why aren’t you asking me how Ashton is?”

That was a difficult question. How was I supposed to answer that?

Ashton had shielded me from most of the sulfuric acid, so his injuries were probably far worse than mine. However, I was still a little hesitant about asking John about his condition.

I looked up at John and asked morosely, “John, don’t you think I’m pretty selfish?”

He knitted his brows together. In a low voice, he replied, “Jared has been planning this for a long time. You’re not to blame for this incident, because you couldn’t have predicted his actions. It’s well within your rights to be mad at Ashton, but Scarlett, you must know that he has put in his best effort for you.”

Yes, Ashton had put in his very best effort. He was a human being and not a god, after all. He couldn’t have known that Jared was hiding a deep grudge and that after so many years, Jared had finally laid a trap for the both of us.

However, Ashton was the root cause of that grudge in the first place! That was an undeniable fact.

Seeing the complicated emotions swirling in my eyes, John sighed a little, looking very helpless. “Scarlett, if you don’t let go of your grudge now, you’ll have an even harder time in the future.”

I looked up at him and retorted, “What about you, then? Can you disregard Hannah’s family background and live happily with her for the rest of your life?”

John fell silent at my question. Looking rather perturbed, he muttered, “We’re talking about your situation right now.”

I nodded. “Yes, we are talking about me right now. I’m just making you see things from my perspective. Sometimes, it’s hard to understand the viewpoint of the other party when you aren’t in their shoes. You might even think I’m making a big fuss over nothing. However, if the same thing happens to you, you might be singing a different tune.”

John pursed his lips, probably thinking that I was a lost cause. The room descended into an awkward silence.