You Are Hot Then You Are Cold

Vol 2 - Pause (2)

By mistaking another person’s back for Karlyle’s, it looks like his symptoms have gotten a little worse. When he saw the back in a suit similar to Karlyle’s, his footsteps had stopped. The projects are in the completion phase so the time immersing in thoughts has gradually increased. Till the end, it is too hard to concentrate. Mackenzie notices it without difficulty.

“I sent you to rest for 3 days, how come you have gotten worse?”

Raising her eyebrows, Mackenzie asks Ash, who is looking outside. They are in Ash’s office. Hearing her voice, Ash quickly relaxes his expression. Then he laughs.

“It’s just there’s a lot of work.”

“Even when the schedule is more severe, you have never been like this.”

“Must be because I’m old now.”

“Am I supposed to die then?”

Is that so? Ash smiles and apologizes. Furrowing her forehead like a piece of paper, Mackenzie sits down at Ash’s desk.

“I’ll just give you a vacation. You’ve finished all the important things anyway.”

“I’m fine.”

“But I’m not fine. Seeing you like this tires me out. What’s wrong? Are you feeling lonely?”

Ash makes a strange expression. He looks at Mackenzie quietly and shrugs.

“You know there are a lot of people around wanting me to introduce them to you, right? Choose from there.”

“Is that so?”

Seeing him asked with a soft smile, Mackenzie pulls out her phone. Looks like she is fully ready. It feels like he’s being forced.

“When you are single, all kinds of rumors run around the studio. There is no one with you for about a year, so people are lining up. Speaking of which, is Olivia no good? She has a good personality and she’s been in love with you for quite a while.”

Putting the chin on his hand, Ash smiles with his eyes wide open. Emotions cannot be one-sided. There is no reason to accept someone just because they like him. His smiling eyes turn to the outside of the window again. Then a question pops up in his mind.

“How about one of my acquaintances…”

If he had asked Karlyle what he wanted to ask…

“... Maybe this isn’t your taste? Then…”

And if Karlyle answered that question…

If so, would he accept Karlyle? Perhaps, maybe. But there is one thing he isn’t sure about. He doesn’t know if the feelings he has for Karlyle can be called love.

Ash’s love always starts with a certain intense attraction, just like when he first saw Nick. But he doesn’t feel that way with Karlyle. Maybe because of the bad first impression, he is not sure. It is totally different from the love Ash knows.

In Ash’s life, love is always accompanied by something passionate. As a child, Ash has learned how to love from his mother.

Sophia was a lively person with colorful emotions. She had dark chestnut brown hair and bright blue eyes. Ash, Natalie, and everyone who knew her loved Sophia. Maybe his father was like that, too.

According to Nat, their mother and father were not like that at the beginning. Nat, who is eight years older than Ash, recalled that even before Ash’s birth, mother and father had had frequent quarrels. That is all Nat knows. A child had no way to know why their parents didn’t get along. Everything has changed since Ash was born.