His tone was calm, but I could feel the tension in his words and asked with a frown, “You mean… He just wants to destroy us completely?”
Ashton was quick to reject his own theory. “No, he has no reason to go that far. There are no unresolvable conflicts between us, nor do we owe him anything.”
The lighting in the car was really dim, and I couldn’t even make out his facial expressions unless he spoke.
After a moment of silence, Ashton sat upright all of a sudden and put the laptop aside before tracing a pattern on my palm.
“Do you know what I just wrote?” he asked after completing the pattern.
“Correct,” Ashton said with a smirk before tracing another word on my palm.
Ashton finished tracing the word before looking up at me as he said, “Nope, that’s the wrong answer. I traced the word ‘Stovall’ both times.”
“That’s impossible! I clearly saw you trace the word ‘Fuller’!” There was no way I would get it wrong as I had been staring at his finger the whole time.
Ashton simply maintained the faint smile on his face as he continued tracing the third word on my palm.
This time, he even made sure to slow down and traced the word in a neat and clean motion, so it was hard to get it wrong.
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