When There Is Nothing Left But Love novel (Ashton and Scarlett ) novel Chapter 1814

I lost all desire to sleep and ended up sitting numbly on the bed until morning rolled by.

Sharing that moment with Ashton had given me a huge boost, and I was able to get off the bed for the first time after I was discharged. At seven o’clock in the morning, I hopped out of bed and went to make breakfast.

I saw Nathaniel walking up the stairs as soon as he got back. He must’ve hurried back down those stairs when he realized that I wasn’t in my room because I saw him walking to the phone immediately after. He stopped punching the numbers into his phone as soon as he saw me leaving the kitchen.

Meeting his gaze, I calmly gestured to the two plates I had with me and asked, “Would you like to have breakfast together?”

The furious expression on Nathaniel’s face faded away and was replaced by warmth and disbelief. He nodded and replied, “Yeah.”

For a moment there, we were so quiet that only the sound of slurping and gulping could be heard. I noticed that Nathaniel was eating slowly, but he would sneak a peek at me every now and then.

That got me to roll my eyes at him and nonchalantly asked, “Will you stop messing with those things?”

“Huh?” He seemed taken aback. It took him some time before he realized what I was talking about, and that stunned him. When he came around, he asked, “Will you accept me if I do as you asked?”

I shrugged and replied, “I don’t know, but at the very least, I’ll hate you less.”

Nathaniel’s expression stiffened. To my surprise, he actually said, “Then I’ll think about it.”

That was not the best result, but at least it was not the worst response, either.

We were quiet for a moment there, but he later broke the silence by saying, “I invited Emery out on your behalf. If you’re free after this, you should take a walk with her. It’d help you recover.”

His kind gesture surprised me, but he fished out a card over at the very next second. Then, he pushed that card over and informed, “It’s not password-protected.”

I shot a look at the card, then at Nathaniel before I pointed out, “Money can’t buy love.”

“I know,” replied Nathaniel as he cut his sausage up. “The problem is that your card is lost, and it’d take some time before a replacement is made. You can’t exactly have your friends pick up the tab this entire time, right?”

I teased, “How thoughtful of you.”

“I am so much more than that, and you will learn, bit by bit, just how great I am,” replied Nathaniel with a straight face.

I had no intention of listening to him bragging nonstop, so I kept the card and replied, “Then I’ll just keep this card. Let’s eat up.”

Nathaniel’s lips parted, and he looked as though he had more to say. That prompted me to signal him to keep quiet when eating.