Love Me Again

Chapter 5 - A neighbour

Chapter 5 – A neighbour

Ashley wiped away every emotion from being shown on her face. "Do you have Mason's number?"

"Yes, I do. Why do you want it?"

"He might know where your wife is. Since he's your best friend and all."

She did her best to cut Sean off from her life, including his friends. But she could not bring herself to delete their numbers. But over the years, some of them had switched their numbers, including Mason.

"He's not available."

Ashley frowned suspiciously. "How do you know that?"

"The doctor had tried to call him before he called you, but his secretary said he's not in the country."

"Don't you have his private number or something?"

"I do. But no one picks up."

"What the heck?" Ashley grumbled. "When, exactly, will he be returning?"

"His secretary said the earliest he can make it is four to five days later."

Four days! What was she going to do during these four days while waiting for Mason to come back? It had not been even a day, and she already felt like flying back home!

"Is being with me that bad?" Sean asked, and she noticed he was... sulking?

Her eyes flickered as forgotten memories surfaced, playing the scene of him sulking while they had been dating that she had found adorable in the past. "What do you expect me to do? Jump around happily?" Ashley snapped, pushing those resurfaced memories away.

"You used to."

Ashley blushed as she remembered that she did jump around happily once when she finally got to meet him after a week. Sean had to leave the country for a business meeting, and she missed him very badly. That was before their wedding, and sometimes she wished that they had never gotten married if she had known things would end up this way.

"That's in the past," Ashley said harshly. "Your doctor said you will need to rest as soon as we reach your house."

Ashley was surprised that he would let her steer him towards his room without complaint or pushing on the topic. The master bedroom was spacious, but strangely, there was no hint of a womanly touch in the design. She stopped her eyes from lingering, not wanting to see anything that belonged to Sean's wife.

She ordered him to wash up and sleep, which he obeyed without protest. His obedience gave her a weird feeling. Sean was the type of man who hardly let people order him around. Maybe he was still tired from the accident?

Ashley felt a little guilty for behaving badly toward him while he was still recovering. But then, Sean always managed to bring out the worst in her rather easily.

Satisfied that he had finally dozed off, Ashley decided to give herself a tour around the house. It was an average-sized house with four bedrooms and two study rooms. Ashley noted that one of the bedrooms seemed to belong to a child.

She bit her lips to keep herself from feeling hurt.

It was a good thing that no kid was born and suffered from their divorce. Or maybe, if they had had a child between them, could their relationship be mended?

Ashley shook her head to shake those senseless thoughts away and continue her private tour.

The walls and furniture were all in lighter colours, and she bet it was his wife's choice. There was a generous sized kitchen that was fully stocked with food. Ashley hoped that Sean had a housekeeper during her stay because she did not possess the culinary skill that had skipped her and landed on her twin's gene.