Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
While answering, a term came to her mind-sick.
Arthur, on the other hand, remained impassive the whole time. Even his tone was unhurried.
“That’s it?”
“That’s it.”
As obtuse as Elspeth would get, she knew she should stop at that. She didn’t want to have a bitter fallout just yet.
Meanwhile, Arthur fiddled with his phone, and the screen refracted the moonlight, illuminating his clean, crisp side profile.
“Do you know why I’d become the man I am today?”
“Why else?”
Elspeth quirked her lips disdainfully.
“Because you’re more ambitious.”
Arthur chuckled in response.
“Who told you that? Callum?”
Elspeth froze over. Sure, it seemed that Callum had instilled some thoughts in her, but was he wrong?
It seemed that Arthur had a lot to say about that memory.
“Well, he’s not wrong. I did tend to compete with him growing up. I was a chubby kid back then, so I didn’t look as good as he did. Then, with time, the differences in our IQ became apparent as well. I started panicking, but he was just too perfect.”
The memory, to him, was honestly not so pretty.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to make you recall.”
Elspeth felt that she had hit a raw nerve.
All else aside, Arthur was genuinely an aspirant guy. However, the methods he used were rather deranged.
“Don’t whitewash me so eagerly. It’s true that I’m not a good man.”
Arthur turned to her, and Elspeth was met with a pair of malicious, fathomless eyes.
“I’ve framed him many times growing up.”
Elspeth’s heart skipped a beat in response, and she actually felt a chilly breeze for some reason.
“Both exam papers were the same. His score was only higher than mine by one mark, but when I went home, I was punished and wasn’t allowed to eat anything in the evening because I wasn’t number one.”
Arthur took a deep breath. His emotions were undulated in his heart.
Elspeth found it hard to breathe, for she didn’t expect the Winthrop Family’s education to be so cruel.
“So, I stole his exam paper that time and burned it.”
There wasn’t a hint of hesitation on Arthur’s face when he brought it up, nor did he appear guilty, as though he was only talking about something insignificant.
“What are you ready to do, then? Are you going to frame him again just like what you had done in the past?”
Suddenly, an inscrutable smile appeared on Arthur’s face.
“Why do you think I was framing him?”
That’s what you said.
Elspeth found the person before her eyes eccentric. It seemed that he was slightly disturbed.
Arthur’s gaze darkened as though he had seen through her mind.
“I was just defending my dignity.”
He’s gone mad.
Elspeth could feel him being resigned and his desire to achieve greater heights. However, she couldn’t dissuade him from doing anything at this moment.
That was because she knew that she hadn’t experienced what he had been through, so she couldn’t claim the moral high ground and tell him to be upstanding.
Despite that, she still wasn’t willing to see Arthur falling from grace.
After all, excluding the terrible things he had done before, he had been treating Elspeth and her family members well.
“Arthur,”
Elspeth called out to him all of a sudden.
Arthur looked attentively at her. There was a hint of expectancy and inquisition behind his gaze.
“I think the dishes you prepare are delicious.”
What she said was simple to understand, but it didn’t seem to have anything to do with what was going on. She had gone off-topic.
However, Arthur understood her instantly.
Is she trying to tell me to be kind?
“I’ll frequently prepare dishes for you.”
A playful smile appeared on his lips.
“Why don’t you just marry me?”
The hint between the two adults was conspicuous but also veiled at the same time.
Elspeth shook her head.
“What I mean is there are some areas where you shine.”
Arthur stared fixedly at her. There seemed to be complex and abstruse emotions undulating behind his cold gaze. Elspeth realized that she could never figure out what was on his mind.
Although Arthur was slightly moved, he soon pulled himself together.
“Ignore me, then.”
He got to his feet and patted his clothes, though there wasn’t any dust at all.
“Miss Joneson told me to come over and cheer you up, but it seems that I’ve disappointed her.”
Arthur shrugged and put on his typical polite smile.
“The weather is chilly, so you’d better keep your coat.”
He passed the coat back to her and returned to the villa.
As Elspeth watched him leave, she couldn’t identify what she was feeling.
After giving it some thought, she got over it.
She hadn’t even settled her own issues, so why was she even trying to help someone else untie the knots in his heart?
Following a sigh, she fished out her phone and found Callum’s name on Facebook.
At that instant, she realized that Callum, who had always used an ocean photo as his profile picture, had changed it to a photo of him and his current partner.
