Chapter 68 - Phone Call

Ashton wakes up, his head splitting in pain. He crinkles his eyes and massages his temples, trying to soothe the pain. He squints his eyes to take a look at a peacefully sleeping Mae.

"Shit." He jumps out of the bed and stares at it in horror. "Oh god, no no no!" he whispers, events of the previous night flooding in. "Please be a dream, please be a dream," he mutters as he hastily puts on his clothes and tip toes out of the room. Ashton feels his heart thumping out of his chest as he tries to navigate out of the house without being caught by anyone.

"These many rooms and pathways for what?" thinks Ashton forgetting the fact that he also lives in a mansion. He silently slips out of the empty house and reaches the backyard. "I hope there are no gardeners or helpers walking around here." He surreptitiously reaches the back gate and heaves a sigh.