When There Is Nothing Left But Love
Chapter 1543

Chapter 1543

Tiffany seemed to have a clue after scrutinizing him for quite a while. The next second, she burst intolaughter and yelled gleefully, “Hahaha! It must be retribution! Retribution indeed! See how he ends uppaying the price for his heinous deed!”

The smile of schadenfreude on her face seemed to indicate that she had been expecting this momentlong ago.

As a member of a prominent family with higher social status, Nicholas had his nose in the air. He wasvery particular about the excellence of the Halls’ new generation in order to maintain the prestige of thefamily. Ever since he discovered that Ashton had a genetic defect, he straight away treated him as aninferior who would be a stain for the Halls. Somehow things had turned the other way round. The so-called descendants of the excellent genes had betrayed him by adding insult to injury. I wonder how hefeels being betrayed by his outstanding children whom he had nurtured throughout all these years!

This was indeed the typical materialistic phenomenon as observed in most of the well-to-do families.Clinking glasses with each other jovially at the feasts did not really mean anything. It was common thatwhenever any of their family members encountered financial crisis or other issues, the others who wereself-centered would choose to ignore them and even cut their ties with them so they would not beaffected.

Ashton looked at her with complex emotions in his eyes. After a while, he instructed Joseph, “Headstraight for the Hall family’s villa in the western district.”

Upon hearing his words, there was a change in Tiffany’s expression. Her complacency was utterlyerased by her agitation all of a sudden. ”What’s your intention? How did you replace out about the place?”

She seemed to have lost her mind and shrieked hysterically. There was even a ferocious look on herface.

On the other hand, Ashton remained nonchalant at all the time. He turned calmly and gave Joseph ameaningful glance, hinting him to take her away immediately.

The next moment, Joseph gestured to his subordinates in order to drag Tiffany who was still rebukingnon-stop out at once.

After they had left, the living room was finally back to peacefulness again. Ashton turned and glancedat me before shifting his gaze away hastily. As we locked gazes momentarily a while ago, I could sensethat he was troubled by something at the moment. However, he was pretending as if there was nothingamiss and moved back to sit beside me.

Throughout years of striving hard for survival under crucial situations, he was sort of well-trained to actindifferently under any type of circumstances. Hence, he could easily hide his feelings from me most ofthe time. Yet if I could still sense something awry at the moment, it indicated that he was actually notintending to hide it from me. It was just not the time for him to pour out everything to me yet.

I bet it was something related to Tiffany, and Ashton would surely share it with me when it was time.Thus, I decided not to pressurize him into telling me at the moment.

As for Louis and the others, Tiffany was a nobody for them. They were more curious about the motivebehind Nathaniel’s sudden emergence.

“Nathaniel is indeed a chip off the old block. In fact, he seems to be more scheming and ruthless thanNicholas Hall. It still makes sense for him to set his parents up due to his abhorrence toward them. Yetit’s really too much since he has the heart to put his own sister at risk. Even beasts don’t inflict harm ontheir own flesh and blood. Imagine how cold-blooded he is,” Louis commented. Staring off into thedistance, he suddenly felt down.

He really had a point on this. So far Nathaniel did not express his hostility toward us or provoke us inany way. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that he was a pain in the neck. It was as if he was a fishbone

stuck in our throats, invisible yet causing great discomfort to us. At the same time, we could not easilylet our guards down, fearing that he might strike and put us in deep water at any moment.

As long as Nathaniel did not initiate any provocative act, it was inappropriate for us to make the firstmove. We could only continue to stay alert so we could retaliate at once when he struck the first blow.

To my surprise, Zachary was really confident and commented casually, “Anyway, K City is still our turfand we know every corner well. No matter how mighty he is, he’s solely on his own. I bet it’s a piece ofcake for us to bring him down at any time.”

Cameron chimed in, “I truly agree with your Dad. Talking about Nathaniel, it’s just like holding a handgrenade which will go off at any time. I really feel uneasy whenever I think about that. Why don’t we justmake use of this chance to get rid of this fellow once and for all?”

I shook my head as I disagreed with their point of view. “I see it in a different way. I suspect thatNathaniel was the one manipulating the previous explosion case. If he’s really the one, he’s definitelynot a simple person whom we can easily deal with. We would only put ourselves at risk if we actrecklessly.”

I had talked to Ashton about this earlier. Even though he did not comment on anything, he actually saweye to eye with me that Nathaniel was no ordinary man whom we could easily get rid of. It was reallyrisky if we acted impulsively without proper planning.

Upon hearing my words, Louis was infuriated and raised his voice, “So do you mean that there’snothing we can do to him now? I can’t accept that! Even those high-ranking son of b*tches like EzraGrant and the others were managed to be pulled down. Anyway, Nathaniel hall is just a greenhorn andcan’t be as mighty as them, right?”

Unable to hold in his temper, he paused and unleashed his frustration by striking the table. “After all, Istill have the connection with the department. I’ll pay them a visit tomorrow and seek their help toinvestigate Nathaniel Hall. I don’t think Nicholas Hall’s children can turn out to be any better than him!”he scoffed.

There was a momentary silence. After a while, Louis finally realized that he had unintentionallyoffended Ashton as well when he criticized Nicholas Hall’s children. He stuttered in embarrassment, “I-I’m sorry. I don’t mean that…”