Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
Elspeth was furious. She wanted to cut Yozan’s head open to see what was inside.
Yozan’s emotions were getting the best of him too. His expression was harsh as he raised his voice and fired back, “He has always been a careful man. I’ve never seen him care about anyone else as much as he cares about your mother. After all these years, she’s the only person who proved to be a worthwhile target. Why shouldn’t I make use of this opportunity? Do you know how he treated my mother?! He called her a b*tch and a sl*t who only knew how to climb into a man’s bed!”
Ever since he was a child, he heard these words repeated to him time and time again, and due to this, his personality grew volatile too.
After seeing the importance Welson placed on Elspeth’s mother, he was so enraged that he came up with this plan.
“So, that’s why you chose to harm an innocent woman, right?”
Elspeth could empathize with Yozan’s feelings, but she couldn’t accept what he’d done.
“I…”
Yozan snapped out of his emotional outburst. He couldn’t defend himself as he knew he was the one in the wrong.
All was silent as neither one of them spoke.
In the end, it was Yozan who broke the silence.
“How’s your mother?”
“She’s fine at the moment,” Elspeth responded curtly.
“That’s good to hear… Apologize to her on my behalf. I know I’m at fault for this. If there’s anything you need, feel free to tell me. I’ll do whatever I can to help you.”
“I don’t need your help. Since you’re willing to admit your fault in the matter, I won’t hold it against you.”
Elspeth couldn’t blow up at Yozan when he was injured and lying in a hospital room.
“I’m really sorry.”
Yozan had regretted what he’d done as soon as he did it, but he didn’t know how to tell Elspeth about it.
The look on his face right now reminded Elspeth of her earlier conversation with Callum.
“Actually, Yozan was the one who told me about this.”
“Yozan?”
“Yeah. He suddenly called me up today and told me that your mother had been kidnapped.”
“How did he know about it?”
“I don’t know.”
“What else?”
“He told me that you would’ve most likely gone over to rescue her yourself, so he urged me to hurry up and find you.”
Elspeth snapped back out of her reverie and sighed when she turned her eyes back onto the unspeaking man in front of her.
“At least your conscience came back just in time. If it weren’t for you, it might’ve been too late by the time they found me.”
In a way, he’d made up for his mistake.
“It was still a little too late…” Yozan said with some difficulty as a complicated look flashed across his eyes.
“That’s enough now. You don’t need to beat yourself up over it. Mr. Harley will soon find out about what you did.”
Welson was a shrewd man. He was bound to figure things out when even Elspeth managed to do so this quickly.
After recalling the way Welson treated Yozan, Elspeth had a feeling that Welson would be even more incensed this time.
“It’s fine. This time, I’ll accept whatever punishment he decides to dole out.”
Before they could say much else, Welson’s furious snarling rang out behind them.
“What did you do, you b*stard?!”
Elspeth turned around, and before she could even register what was happening, a hand slammed across Yozan’s face which swelled up right away.
“If I hadn’t interrogated the McGraths, I wouldn’t have found out that my son had the audacity to put someone else in harm’s way!”
Yozan wiped the streak of blood from the corner of his lips and smirked. “You’re only angry because the person who was put in harm’s way was the woman you love.”
During his time abroad, he’d gotten into a fight and ended up beating that person half to death. He had to give several hundred thousand in compensation, and even then, Welson didn’t care at all.
He’s only reacting this way now because I hurt the person he cares the most about.
“Darn it! Do you not have a conscience?!”
Welson raised his arm once more but Elspeth swiftly stopped him. “It’s true that Yozan went too far today, but he has already admitted his mistake and did his best to make up for it in time.”
Yozan sighed. “You’re too kindhearted. If it were me, I would rip this b*stard to shreds!”
Elspeth chuckled awkwardly. “You did hit him earlier. It counts as teaching him a lesson. He’s still injured right now and his body’s weak, so let’s not resort to any more violence.”
Upon hearing that Yozan was injured, Welson finally took a good look at his son.
True enough, his head was bandaged. It was clear that he was sporting an injury on the back of his head. Alas, Welson had been too enraged to notice it sooner.
“It’s just a scratch. No big deal.”
Yozan snorted and said, “I know this bit of injury means nothing to you.”
The room fell silent once again.
Welson cleared his throat before curtly announcing, “Since you’re fine, I’ll get going. I still have work matters to attend to.” He took one last look at Yozan and informed, “I’ve made sure those people won’t be ratting you out, so you can just focus on your recovery.”
With that said, he turned and left.
Once Welson was gone, Elspeth sighed. “Mr. Harley does care about you, you know. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have made sure they stayed quiet to stop them from dragging you down with them.”
What the McGraths had done were criminal offenses, and if Yozan got dragged down with them, he would have to serve a prison sentence too.
“I know.” Yozan didn’t seem unhappy. “It’s only because he still needs me to be his heir. If something happens to me, all of his years of hard work would go down the drain.”
Elspeth chuckled in disbelief. “Now that I’m in the picture, do you think you can still be his successor?”
Yozan was startled. “Are you interested in it?”
In reality, Yozan wasn’t all that interested in the Harley Family’s fortune, but throughout all these years, he’d been groomed as the heir.
If he had to give it over to someone else… If it’s Elspeth… I guess it’s fine by me.
“I don’t, but what I meant is, you keep saying that Mr. Harley likes me, right? If I return to the family, do you think he’ll make me his heir instead?”
“So be it.”
Yozan truly didn’t care.
Elspeth was exasperated. “Why do I have such a stubborn younger brother? You’re so… What I meant is that Mr. Harley has someone else to choose as his heir, so he doesn’t have to worry about his hard work going to waste. He chose to protect you because he truly cares about you, his son.”
Yozan was stunned into silence.
“Also, don’t hold it against him. If it were me, I would’ve slapped you for what you did too.”
Elspeth rolled her eyes. Giving him nothing more than a slap would be going easy on him.
“I’m surprised you’re aware of the fact that you harmed the person he loves. Why do I recall someone recording a naked video of the person who pushed his girlfriend into the lake?”
