Ashton and Katherine returned home after spending four nights at the resort. Quite surprising to Katherine, Ashton hadn’t received any calls from Callie after the first one and they stayed there without anyone’s interruption. Ashton even extended their stay for two more nights when he didn’t want their trip to get over.The whole month went in a blur after that with lots of work for Ashton but he still took out some of his time for Katherine. She laughed more often and looked happy again. He started noticing this unusual glow on her face lately. He didn’t know why but she looked much prettier to him than before.

 The next day, it was almost eleven in the night and there was no sign of Ashton yet. He hadn’t called her after the previous night when he informed her that his work was done. She had tried his number early the next morning but it was switched off. She thought he had boarded his flight and waited for more than nine hours.  “He should be here by now. Why isn’t he here yet?” She looked at the clock for the hundredth time in the last half an hour.The meal that

Ashton was startled from his nap by the ear-shattering sound of the thunder. He didn't know when he fell asleep, leaning against the back of his chair but when he woke up, he saw that the whole house was illuminated by a weird kind of darkness that he had never witnessed before. It seemed like the last rays of sunshine had gone missing from his life. "Kathy.." He knew she would be angry at him and wouldn't want to see him at all. That was why he had left her alone, giving her sometime time to calm down. When he approached their bedroom, there was calm, the calm that is felt before the storm. A chill ran thr

Ashton kicked open the door to his apartment, which was engulfed in a tragic darkness. His house was never so dark before. Katherine always made sure to keep it well lit and ventilated. Now that she was gone, both his house as well as his life felt awfully dark. Ashton's hands stumbled against the wall in search of the switches to turn on the lights but with the amount of alcohol in his body, even standing still on the ground was becoming too difficult for Ashton. "Kathy baby, are you home?" He called out to her like he had been doing for the past six months with a slight trace of hope still lingering at his heart, that someday his wife would say, 'Yes honey, I'm here.."When he didn't hear anything in return except for the grave silence, he silently walked into his bedroom and opened Katherine's closet. He pulled out her yellow summer dress that still held a tinge of her sweet scent. While pulling it out, something shiny fell on the grou

Chapter 40 “Are all the papers ready?” Ashton queried his secretary while sipping his cup of coffee.“Yes Mr.Schwimmer.” The young secretary placed the files carefully on the table. “You may go now..” He dismissed her and glanced through the agreement papers. He ran his eyes carelessly on it until they got stuck on the name, Katherine McKenzie. The name alone was enough to shake his whole body with an unknown surge of electricity but he knew this Katherine could not be his Katherine.