Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
Her words upset Elspeth, and the latter ruffled the young girl’s hair with a moue.
“Thank you, Elspeth!”
said Isabel, so overwhelmed with joy that her voice was shaky as she felt her somewhat mottled face.
“Aww, this is nothing.”
Elspeth felt somewhat sentimental.
“This is all for you. You wouldn’t have suffered this injury if you hadn’t saved me.”
Isabel nodded and scratched her head bashfully.
“Well, I’ll wait for your good news.”
“Sure.”
With that, Elspeth returned to her room in a brilliant mood.
Her phone rang just as she entered her room.
At that, she pulled her phone out and immediately saw the caller ID.
Gilbert?
Though doubtful, she still answered it.
“Elspeth, where are you right now?”
It sounded more like an order rather than a question.
“Well, excuse your temper. I don’t recall owing you anything,”
the young woman retorted with feigned anger.
“Don’t go around doing stuff behind my back. Where are you?”
Gilbert was beyond exasperated. He was worrying here, yet the person on the other line was behaving nonchalantly and even fooling around.
“I’m in Eden. Treating my Mom’s illness.”
Well, she wasn’t exactly lying.
Gilbert narrowed his eyes in response.
“I already found out Arthur has taken your mom away for medical treatment and coupled with what you said just now… Does this mean you’re with Arthur right now?”
Just as Elspeth wanted to explain, her phone was taken away. At that, she looked up reflexively and found the man in question answering Gilbert with a smile.
“Yeah, I’m right next to her as we’re speaking.”
Instantly, Gilbert’s worry instantly vanished.
“Arthur, I’m warning you, drop whatever you want to do to Elspeth. You’re not worthy of her!”
Alas, the threat did nothing to affect Arthur. Instead, the latter countered with a fatal question.
“What about you? Do you think you’re some kind of saint?”
This time, not only was Gilbert stumped but even Elspeth was alarmed.
“What do you mean?”
asked the man on the other end of the line.
A thought suddenly came to Elspeth, and she frantically hinted with her gaze at Arthur not to say anything.
However, the man made nothing of it and blurted out,
“You say I’m not worthy of Elspeth, so are you, someone who shirked their responsibility after impregnating another woman.”
Great, he said it. Operation prevention failed.
“What does this have to do with you?”
Gilbert felt somewhat humiliated, and his heart twinged painfully. After all, it was said in front of Elspeth.
“And what does whether Elspeth and I are together have to do with you? Straighten your own problems first. To think a father like you is still hiding in Chars when your child is already gone.”
Arthur’s words couldn’t get any harsher, and Elspeth was certain Gilbert had never suffered such humiliation in the past twenty-plus years of his life. But for some reason, the man fell silent, deadly silent.
A long while later, when Elspeth thought Gilbert was surrounded by the pain of losing his child, he suddenly spoke up.
“Where is she?”
To her surprise, there was a sliver of relief in his voice.
“Oh, so it has finally occurred to you that you should look for her? You really are a wuss, Payne. As if you can’t even find a pregnant woman with your large connection.”
Arthur didn’t answer his question and hung up the call immediately, causing Elspeth to glare daggers at him.
“How dare you hang up my call!”
While protesting, she even whacked him a few times.
However, the man had no intention of fighting back. In fact, he didn’t even appear angry.
“You should reflect on why you’d fall for such a man who can’t even take up the slightest responsibility,”
he said while chucking the phone onto the bed.
Elspeth could relate to Gilbert. He didn’t have feelings for Ginna, yet he was drugged into having sex with the young woman and even ended up impregnating her, much to his dismay. So, could anyone blame the man for wanting to escape the messed-up reality?
That said, Arthur was right as well. Gilbert really was a wuss.
Unable to defend him anymore, Elspeth cleared her throat and said,
“Alright, let’s put this aside for now. This is their problem, not mine.”
“How is it not?”
Arthur pinched and swung her cheek.
“He’s already reaching his hands toward my fianc?e. Don’t tell me you can’t tell he has feelings for you.”
Meanwhile, Elspeth swatted his hand away and rubbed her reddened cheek while backing up, only to stub her feet on the leg of her bed, causing her to cry in pain.
“Ow… You stay away from me. Nothing good happens to me when you’re around.”
At that, a hint of grimness flashed across Arthur’s eyes, but a sliver of a smile quickly replaced it.
“Forget it. Since you can’t accept anything I say, I will keep quiet. The new engagement party’s tomorrow. If it’s not too late, you might even be able to invite Payne over.”
“How do you know he’ll be here?”
Elspeth asked with a quirked brow.
Arthur spread his arms and remarked,
“If he can’t even come for this, then he really has no right to love you. Weak, irresponsible, and won’t even accept reality.”
