Half an hour later, there seemed to be no more movement outside. The sound of a car starting could be heard, and Ashton stumbled in after a few minutes.
Having eaten my fill, I was feeling a little bloated. I also could not shake the feeling that my belly had been growing a lot bigger lately. I decided that I would drop by the hospital tomorrow for a regular check-up.
Mrs. Eriksen, who had been cleaning the kitchen while paying attention to the commotion outside, yelped when Ashton stepped into the house. “Oh my! Look at the state that you’re in!” She then rushed over to check on him.
Meanwhile, I was resting on the sofa after my meal. I looked up to see that Ashton’s handsome face was now swollen with a streak of bloodstain at the corner of his mouth. Despite the sorry state that he was in, he still stood tall and proud, exuding a certain triumphant aura.
While Mrs. Eriksen was busy looking for a first-aid kit, I took a glance at him before turning to inform the older lady, “It’s getting late. I’m going to rest first.”
She gawked at my nonchalance, unable to say anything.
Avoiding Ashton’s intense gaze, I went upstairs.
I knew that I was being cruel by acting in such a cold-hearted way, but such was the fact of life, the more I took the initiative to care, the more I would be taken for granted. Just like I had things that I had hidden from him; he too, had many secrets that he had kept from me.
When I came out of the bathroom, Ashton was standing on the balcony, smoking. His tall and slender figure looked forlorn and cold.
Averting my gaze, I sat in front of my dressing table for my nightly skincare routine.
After a long while, and countless cigarettes later, he came in from the balcony and glanced at me before stepping into the bathroom.
Since it was already very late, I quickly dried my hair and went to bed, drifting into slumber almost immediately.
I guess we’re having a cold war again, huh.
and animals in the yard of our
find the right position. Just then, a
find that Ashton was trying to have his way with
at him, I muttered, “If I don’t even bother to respond to you when
could feel him stiffened as he looked at me
still feeling sleepy. “Not in a mood to
before saying, “Seems like I have to
well-dressed appearance, he
lips, I endured his forceful thrust in
to me?” Thinking that I was beginning to respond to him,
him have his way with
time, he was finally done. He turned on the light on the bedside table and was prepared to carry
turned to look at me, he saw something that made him recoiled in horror.
hoarse voice, “Why didn’t you yell?” Panic was
little dizzy, the pain in my lower abdomen and
was feeling was not on any part of my body, but rather
tightly
down from
not say anything
fingers were trembling as they slid across the phone screen. It took him a long time before he was
through, Ashton spoke with an urgency not heard before, “She
after, he stumbled into the bathroom and emerged with a towel in his
blood away and to stop the bleeding but to no
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