When There Is Nothing Left But Love
Chapter 1710

Chapter 1710

Chapter 1710 The Truth

The document didn’t explain how Rebecca was saved. She was the victim but ended up being cursedand labeled as a shameless whore. If I were in her shoes, I would’ve taken my life on the spot.

What should I do? The person I despised the most took a bullet for me. No wonder Rebecca said Istole everything I owned.

If it were me who suffered in the hands of the thugs, I might’ve gone crazy or go to a place where noone knew me and spent the rest of my life alone until my meeting with Grim Reaper. No matter what, Iwouldn’t be Ashton’s wife, and I wouldn’t have given birth to our children and led a happy life like now.

Realizing my state, both John and Ashton stopped grappling instantly.

John strode over to me and wrapped an arm over my shoulder before giving me a pat. “Are you allright?”

Ashton’s tensed voice sounded from behind. “No one is all right.”

Comprehension dawned, and I turned at my shoulder to look at Ashton. The anguish in his eyesconfirmed my guess.

It seemed that Ashton knew everything from the very beginning.

He knew the thugs’ target was me, and that they mistook Rebecca for me.

The worst possibility popped up in my mind.

Ashton was a smart man. It was normal for his enemies to take revenge on him, so he must’veexpected this matter.

Or rather, he said nothing and allowed the matter to happen.

Young Ashton was arrogant and confident, and he had offended a lot of people. Knowing that loserswouldn’t give up easily and that Rebecca would land in trouble by sticking to him at all times, he didn’tbother stopping the matter or rejecting her. Instead, he allowed everyone to think that Rebecca was hisloved one.

He had succeeded. When the sore loser began taking revenge, Rebecca became his target andsuffered on behalf of me. Besides losing her virginity, she also got pregnant with one of the thugs’ child.That wasn’t only it…

Perhaps the truth was much crueler than I could imagine.

At once, I began to understand why he acted capriciously for the first two years of our marriage. Ashtondespised me. He hated himself for not being able to love me, and how he sacrificed his deceased bestfriend’s sister.

Ashton had always been a man with principles, but he became someone whom he despised the mostin order to protect me.

My throat started tingling as though ants were crawling up. Before I could say anything, Ashton stalkedout swiftly and left John and me behind. His retreating figure seemed desolate and unfathomable.

“Is he crazy?” John declared, staring at his back in confusion.

I collapsed onto the couch, realizing I had destroyed the pride Ashton had been carefully preserving allover the years and forced him to show his bad side to the public. “I’m the crazy one.”

A general who had achieved plenty of military achievements was about to gain success when aninsolent witness jumped out and pointed at his military badges while yelling, “He’s a deserter!”

Everyone lost trust in him, and the general ended up dying full of regrets.

Just like the general, Ashton was born into an affluent family. He was proud and noble.

Suddenly, I was afraid that the flaw would act as a domino effect and destroyed Ashton thoroughly.

That very night, Ashton’s phone was switched off.

As though she could sense the adults’ changes, Audrey stuck to me when he didn’t come back, afraidthat I would leave.

To make sure my feelings did not affect the children, I had to put on a calm front and pretended nothinghappened. Privately, I used my connections to replace out where he was.

Before dawn broke, it began drizzling. I felt stuffy inside the house, so I got up and went to the balconyto look at the rain.

Actually, after spending the entire night in a daze, I didn’t even know if I was looking at the rain orhoping to see Ashton’s familiar figure coming back home.