When There Is Nothing Left But Love novel (Ashton and Scarlett ) novel Chapter 167

Chapter 167

He shook his head and suggested, “Nope! Care to join me for a meal?”

I got ahead of Ashton and uttered before he could reply, “I’m afraid that we’ll be unable to keep you company because we have something else to tend to! You should head over and have your dinner without us!”

Jackson reprimanded me, “Hey! You can’t do this to me! You were the one who’d summoned me back from M Country!”

I felt lightheaded all of a sudden because of his words. In the end, I warned him and showed him my exhausted front. “Have you seen my tummy? I’m afraid that my child will be born way ahead of the estimated date of delivery if I don’t restrain myself.”

He looked at Ashton and muttered, “Since you’re exhausted, you should head back home without Ashton because he’s the one that I’m looking for.”

Ashton turned around and asked, “Why? What do you wish to talk about?”

Jackson stared at me as he directed another question at Ashton. “Are you not aware of your wife’s condition?”

I was utterly dumbfounded because the fool had actually turned his back against me, selling me off in front of Ashton.

Ashton narrowed his eyes in return and affirmed, “I’m well aware of her condition.”

E–Excuse me? 

Jackson was taken aback as well. He paused for a few seconds and gave it a thought before throwing another question at him. “If that’s the case, why have you not done anything about it?”

“I’ll think of something and deal with it soon.”

As their conversation continued, I grew increasingly confused.

Once the elevator reached the floor, I sprinted in because I had enough of their conversation. To begin with, they seemed to be on a different page.

“Ashton, I believe you need to make a trip to M Country with Scarlett and get her to

go through a thorough diagnosis,” Jackson asserted.

“Have you made a trip back because of her condition?” Ashton queried.

Jackson nodded as he asked rhetorically, “Why else would I return? It took me more than twelve hours to make a trip back. I don’t have that much time to kill, okay?”

It sounded as though Ashton was aware of my actual condition. I couldn’t care less about it as I decided to interrupt their conversation. “Let’s catch up some time in the future! We’ll return for the time being! Let’s get going already! I’m exhausted after a long day!”

Initially, Jackson was about to go on, but he received a call out of the blue. He answered the call, yet he could barely hear the person on the other end of the call due to the poor signal in the elevator.

It took him a few seconds to figure out the thing that the other person was talking about. Eventually, he burst out laughing as he exclaimed, “Okay! I’ll head over at

once!”

After he hung up the call, we finally reached the designated floor. He looked at Ashton and repeated himself in a serious tone for one last time. “Ashton, I mean it! You need to make a trip to M Country with her!”

I got out of the bed and noticed that Ashton was nowhere to be seen in the room. As I made my way out of the room, I noticed the strong illumination that was in the study room and decided to knock on the door.

A hoarse voice could be heard from within, instructing neutrally, “Come in!”

After I entered the room, I saw him with a stack of documents on his table. It turned out that he had logged into the company’s system to access some internal data. I caught a glimpse of the data and noticed something was wrong. “Hasn’t the audit for AC been re-conducted? Why aren’t the changes reflected yet?”

The exhausted man glanced at me and smiled as though he was proud of me. “It seems like you haven’t been spending your time in Fuller Corporation in vain, huh? I’m glad that you’re able to detect the issue with the data.”

I was speechless because I hadn’t spent my time with Fuller Corporation in vain, yet he seemed to have perceived otherwise all along.

He didn’t answer my queries. Instead, he tended to the agreements that he had with him. Since there wasn’t anything else I could do, I sat by his side, waiting for him to finish the things that he had on his plate.

As I scanned through the content on the screen, I noticed that something was wrong because there was a red exclamation mark at the bottom left of the screen. I told him “Ashton! Someone is trying to gain access to the company’s system without the administrator’s consent!”

He ignored the seemingly urgent issue as he looked at me in the eyes. Frowning, he asked, “Since when have you picked up fundamentals in computer science?”

Staring at the eye-catching signal, I couldn’t believe my ears because he behaved calmly as though it was part of his plan to allow the other party to access the system.

I finally linked the missing pieces of puzzles together—the flawed data was deliberately uploaded to mislead the other party.

“E-Er… Not really, but I picked up the fundamentals of computer science during my university days. It’s nothing worth mentioning at all.” I felt so guilty deep down because I had no choice but to lie to him.

John was the expert in the field. He had always been brushing up his skills just so he could infiltrate others’ accounts as he desired. The computer science enthusiast had always shared his newfound skills with me but I never paid attention to the things that he had told me