Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
He’s openly defending me, is he not? Elspeth mourned for herself inwardly without saying a word. What Arthur said will probably incense Emma at once. If she really exposes my identity then, things will probably get very troublesome.
Emma panicked deep down in an instant.
“Arthur, what’s wrong with you? Are you mad at me or something?”
“Why would I be mad at you? You’re overthinking it.”
Arthur seemed to find it somewhat irritating to speak to her, so he turned around and wrapped his arm around Elspeth’s shoulders.
“Didn’t you say you were hungry just now? Let’s get something to eat over there,”
he suggested.
Elspeth had no choice but to nod obediently and go with him.
Shortly after they arrived at a corner, a middle-aged man came over and made small talk with Arthur.
Someone’s called him away, at last, thought Elspeth. For some reason, she heaved a sigh of relief, but no sooner had she looked up than she saw Emma staring at her from nearby with bitter hatred written all over her face. She quickly averted her gaze and pretended not to notice it. She was here today not for Emma but for Rayan, so her eyes began searching around for him.
But what was the use of her avoiding Emma? In the end, Emma came to her nonetheless, standing in front of her with her arms folded across her chest. She said with a conceited smile,
“Well, if it isn’t Elspeth!”
Knowing that Emma had recognized her, Elspeth finally stopped concealing herself. She took off her sunglasses right away, revealing a pair of attractive eyes.
“Emma, I never messed with you this time. Can you stop fussing me?”
To be honest, this woman really is a nuisance.
Emma raised her glass and swirled it with a sneer on her exquisitely pretty face.
“Hitting on Arthur now after you’re done getting involved with Callum, eh? Why are you acting like a seductress?”
“A seductress?”
Elspeth’s eyes goggled in a theatrical fashion.
“You say I’m the one hitting on them? Why didn’t you say it was them who hit on me instead?”
“I’m the one Callum loves! Still, you stole his heart by some shameless means. Luckily, he doesn’t love you anymore. As for Arthur, there’s no way he’ll like you!”
Elspeth found these words hilarious. She went straight for Emma’s weak point, saying,
“What makes you so confident that Arthur won’t like me?”
Finishing off the red wine in her glass with a gulp, Emma replied confidently,
“I’m the one he likes! He’s liked me for five full years. Surely you don’t think your presence can make him move on to you?”
Elspeth didn’t bother to argue with her. What the hell does the person whom Arthur likes have to do with me?
Just then, a chilly voice rang from behind.
“Who told you that I’ll never move on to her?”
Emma’s countenance changed the instant the voice rang.
Arthur slowly came toward them from nearby. Looking at the two women before him, he walked past Emma and stood directly next to Elspeth, as though he hadn’t noticed the former.
“Elsie, have you had enough to eat?”
He reached out and stroked Elspeth’s hair, his voice sounding so affectionate as if they had an intimate relationship.
Emma fumed with anger at the sight of this, but she couldn’t appear too acerbic in front of everyone. She had no choice but to soften her voice, asking,
“Arthur, why are you so cool toward me? Did I do anything wrong?”
Arthur’s gaze slowly shifted toward her with an air of indifference.
“We’re not related in the first place, Miss Walker. What’s the matter? Aren’t you in love with my brother? Why are you in such a hurry to make yourself a relative of mine now?”
Emma dared not say anything further, what with dozens of news outlets’ cameras facing them at this Fashion Week. She could only smile awkwardly, saying,
“Even if I’m in love with your brother, you and I are still considered a family, so you don’t have to be so cool toward me.”
“It’s not necessary.”
Arthur stared at her with an unfathomable smile. Then, he turned to Elspeth, saying,
“Elsie, I just saw something interesting over there-“
Before he could finish his sentence, he sensed Elspeth stiffening up next to him. He followed her gaze, only to see Callum standing nearby with a hint of inscrutable darkness in his eyes.
“Relax. He’s forgotten about his feelings for you now, no?”
he whispered softly in Elspeth’s ear.
“Even if we do something, he wouldn’t care about it.”
Elspeth broke into a cold sweat the instant she saw Callum. Others might not perceive it, but she sensed the murderous desire behind the man’s inscrutable gaze. He probably wants to stab Arthur to death for standing next to me, she thought. However, Arthur moved closer and closer to her to the point where he was almost pressing himself against her, as if he were totally unaware of the man’s presence. Panicked, she whispered to Arthur,
“Alright, cut it out. Stay away from me now.”
Arthur raised an eyebrow.
“What’s wrong? Don’t tell me you still care about him now?”
“Of course, I don’t.”
Elspeth’s fingers curled up nervously. She knew she couldn’t let Arthur realize that Callum had recovered his feelings, or he might stir up trouble.
Arthur took hold of her wrist with a smile, his heart swaying a little as he felt the smoothness of her skin.
“Well, in that case, you’re my companion today, so it’s not over the top for you to be closer to me, no?”
At this moment, Callum, who had been standing nearby just now, suddenly came to their side and looked at Elspeth’s wrist with a piercing gaze.
“It’s a bit inappropriate for you two to tug at each other in front of everyone, I’m afraid.”
Frightened, Elspeth hurriedly shook off Arthur’s hand and stepped aside to free herself from the man.
“No, we’re not tugging at each other.”
Only then did Callum look somewhat satisfied.
Clever as Arthur was, he instantly detected that something was amiss. Could Callum have recovered? The guess got increasingly magnified in his mind, so in order to confirm this, he immediately pulled Elspeth into his arms while looking at Callum defiantly, saying,
“Callum, isn’t it inappropriate for you to interfere with us face-to-face?”
At this moment, everyone’s attention was drawn to the stage as Fashion Week began. With no one else around them, Callum finally stopped hiding everything; he instantly pointed out,
“It’s because the one standing next to you is my fianc?e.”
Arthur retorted,
“Your fianc?e? Callum, did you forget that you’d already broken off your engagement to your fianc?e back in Chars?”
He was amused. Since when did Callum become so forgetful?
Elspeth also felt uncomfortable at the mention of this. Inwardly, she was disappointed by the look of complete indifference in Callum’s eyes, but she knew there was nothing wrong with him doing such a thing. After all, he had no feelings for her at the time, not to mention that she had left so heartlessly.
