Trial Of The Senses

Holding the phone in her hand, Ashley took a deep breath and put it near her ear. "Grandpa Bruce, I'm Ashley. How are you doing recently?"

"Same as before. Being old, my time is about to come." The familiar voice of Bruce came through.

Ashley was very respectful to this old man. "Don't worry. You are so strong. If you take good care of yourself, you will definitely recover."

"It's the common sense of being old, sick and dead. I've lived for so long, and I've already seen through it." Bruce sounded generously, "Let's drop it. Miss Ashley, are you busy with your work recently? If you are not busy, you can come to stay in the countryside for two days. I always feel that we are congenial to each other. Before leaving, I want to talk to her. "

Jasper was in the countryside. Ashley wanted to refuse, but she didn't have the heart to refuse the old man's request when he was dying.

"Miss Ashley, isn't inconvenient for you to go back and forth? Jasper is in a daze in the countryside every day. How about I ask him to pick you up?"

"No, Grandpa Bruce?" When Jasper came to pick her up, the two of them were even more speechless on the way. "I don't have much work to do at home recently. I'm just looking for a place to take a walk. Since grandpa Bruce invites me, I will start off tomorrow morning. There is no need to trouble Jasper to pick me up. "

"That's great that Miss Ashley can come." Bruce said happily, "But I'm worried about you. How about this? I'll ask Jasper to call Henry to drive you here?"

"Thank you, Grandpa Bruce."

"Okay, let's make a deal. I'll ask Tom to cook delicious food for you tomorrow."

"Okay."

It would take four hours from the downtown to the mountain area if the road condition was good. After knowing it, Henry contacted Ashley early to inform her of the departure time. At seven o'clock in the morning of the second day, Henry arrived at Ashley's house. After having breakfast prepared by Betty, the two of them drove to the mountain.

It was dark outside.

"It seems that it's going to snow," Henry said while driving.

Ashley looked out of the window at the sky. Because of the dark clouds, the light between heaven and earth was a few degrees dark, and she had a feeling that it would be bright at dawn.

"You're going to see Mr. Jasper soon. Why are you in a bad mood?" Henry turned his head to look at the woman beside him. In his memory, Ashley was very talkative. At least, in front of him, they could always have a good chat. Now the woman in the passenger seat next to him was different from the person in his memory.

Ashley turned around and looked at the front of the car. "Henry, let me ask you a question."

"What question?"

"You have been with Jasper for so long. You must know a lot of his secrets, right?"

The alarm rang in his heart. "Yes, I know. But if

Drugged one night by her ex-boyfriend, a mysterious man took advantage of her in an ecstatic night filled with sex.

To take her revenge, she married the man, and used him.

"As long as I'm alive, I'm still his legal wife, while all of you are just his mistresses."

She remained adamant even when he was involved in scandals with other women.

Eventually she stormed off after she learned that he had betrayed her again.But life brought her back to him a few years later, to his astonishment.

ng hands together and said, "Miss Ashley, I know my own condition. I don't have much time left. I'll entrust you with Jasper from now on. "

The snow outside the window was getting heavier, spreading like cotton.

Ashley looked at the overlapping hand and then looked at the old man on the bed. Finally, she nodded and said, "Don't worry. I will take good care of him."

"That's good, that's good." The old man smiled with relief. "I'm relieved to hear that, Miss Ashley."

The old woman talked with Ashley for a long time, and his face finally became tired. They led Nelson out, leaving the old woman to rest.

The courtyard outside the house had already been covered with a thin layer of snow, which covered all the items in the courtyard. Nelson couldn't stay idle and had already rushed into the courtyard to snow by himself.

The two stood in the corridor, quietly watching the snowflakes flying in the air.

"So, you have forgiven me?" Jasper said.

"I just don't want to disappoint Bruce. I don't mean to forgive you. Don't get me wrong." "Unless you ask Sheila to tell me who that person is."

Jasper tilted his head and asked, "What if I don't? Are you breaking up with me?"

"I can't live with a person who has a secret to me. I don't want to doubt the people around me all the time."

"Even if there is no problem with our relationship and even if the secret is just a kind concealment, aren't you unwilling to forgive me?"

"What is a kind concealment?" Turning her head to look at the man, Ashley said, "Your goodwill is already a deep malice to me. How can I know if this concealment is a lie of another relationship?"

"Why don't you trust me?"

"My marriage has failed once. I used to trust Francis very much, but what did I get in the end? He cheated on me and I devoiced without getting property. " "It's not that I don't believe it. I just can't believe it."