Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
Theodore looked at Elspeth with a smile.
“Do you like Callum?”
Not knowing what to say, Elspeth only lowered her head, but the tips of her ears had turned slightly pink.
Blake muttered grumpily on the side,
“It’s not like Elspeth is Callum’s private property. What makes you think she can only like Callum? What if she likes me?”
Theodore didn’t expect Blake to have feelings for Elspeth too. As the father of both men, he couldn’t help feeling conflicted.
Blake would end up getting hurt if Callum and Elspeth liked each other.
Somehow, this reminded him of his younger years when he lost to Elspeth’s father and had to settle with loving Elspeth’s mother one-sidedly.
However, these were his sons they were talking about. He couldn’t pick a side between Callum and Blake, but he also couldn’t bear the thought of Blake being hurt.
Arthur pursed his lips just then.
“I like Elspeth too,”
he announced.
“Me too.”
Edmund added.
Theodore’s gaze promptly fell on Max, who looked embarrassed as he turned the other way.
“I don’t, so don’t look at me.”
Theodore was surprised to find that four out of his five sons were interested in Elspeth.
After thinking about it, he could only come up with a final decision.
“Let’s do it this way. Elspeth can choose whomever she wants. The rest of you shall withdraw voluntarily.”
Just like that, Theodore dumped it on Elspeth to make the tough decision.
She felt a painful headache hit her as she looked at the people in front of her.
Logically speaking, she should choose Callum. But now that she saw how expectant the four men were looking at her, she couldn’t say Callum’s name for some reason.
“Take a good look, Elspeth. Whom will you choose?”
Blake’s sinister eyes fell on Callum as he urged unrelentingly,
“You must think carefully.”
She sucked in a deep breath.
“I won’t choose.”
“Why not?”
asked Callum, whose face instantly fell when he heard that.
Seeing how dark his face turned, she realized that she had unknowingly offended the young master, and her heart skipped a beat.
“Elspeth, don’t hesitate to choose whomever you want.”
Edmund’s words were always tinged with a hint of displeasure.
“Fine. I choose Callum.”
Hmph.”
Edmund huffed.
“That’s more like it.”
She instantly understood what he meant.
He was just trying to make her come to terms with her feelings quicker and make them public.
She remembered that he didn’t like her at all. He must have deliberately said so just now to compete with Callum.
Edmund might be a tad evil and foul-mouthed, but he wasn’t a bad person.
Blake, on the other hand, was not happy, and even his breathing suddenly became silent as he looked at Elspeth with his eyes filled with pain.
As for Arthur, it was as if nothing had happened. His emotionless smile remained plastered to his face, and Elspeth couldn’t tell how he felt at this moment.
Satisfied, Theodore nodded.
“There we have it, then. In that case, when are you and Callum going to get engaged?”
Not only Elspeth but even Callum was startled by the unexpected question.
“I’m afraid it’s too early for that. Callum and I are not even a couple. Why are we getting engaged so soon?”
Elspeth choked.
Margot wanted nothing more than to see the two of them together.
“Callum is already 24. He’s neither too young nor too old to get married. Even though you are only 20, you can already get married according to the law. You can get engaged this year and get married at the end of the year. Who knows? I might have a grandchild in a year!”
Her words shocked Elspeth so badly she could barely squeak.
“That’s too rushed, Mrs. Winthrop…”
Margot rolled her eyes at Elspeth.
“Geez, don’t get all shy on us now. It’s alright. You can slowly let your feelings grow. You can even do that after marriage!”
Rendered speechless, Elspeth stole a glance at Callum.
He cleared his throat.
“Well, I don’t think Mom’s wrong”
Judging from his approving tone, it seemed that he was satisfied with his mother’s arrangement.
Elspeth only forced a laugh without saying another word.
“Mom, don’t worry about our marriage. We are still young, so we should work on our careers first.”
Still, Callum was clear-headed enough to say the things that calmed Elspeth down. For a moment there, she thought that he would urge the two of them to get married as soon as possible as Margot did.
However, his next words made her regret ever quietly complimenting him for what he said just a second ago.
“Nonetheless, it’d be great if we get engaged early on.”
As long as they were engaged, Elspeth would no longer be known as the Winthrops’ fianc?e. Instead, she would be Callum’s fianc?e.
She would be his and only his.
She couldn’t stay in this awkwardness any longer, so she blurted out an excuse to leave.
She sat outside by the flower bed for a while. Not long after, a figure suddenly emerged from not far away and sat down beside her.
