Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
Elspeth pondered for a moment before shaking her head earnestly.
“No, I really didn’t do that.”
Callum fixed her with a stern look.
“Didn’t you use a honey trap on him?”
His gaze pierced through her sharply like an X-ray.
Seeing the look in his eyes, Elspeth dared not lie to him, so she had no choice but to nod honestly.
“I did.”
The instant he imagined how Elspeth had played up to Rayan, Callum felt he was on the verge of a cerebral hemorrhage. Never mind, I’ll put up with it since she’s my wife.
“Will you be so careless again next time? How could you take matters into your own hands every single time? I’ll be worried, no?”
Hearing how he fired one rebuke at her after another, Elspeth instantly felt somewhat hurt. She immediately retorted with a pout,
“I had no one with me at the time, no? It’s not like I could fight against the six of them alone.”
Although she was a bit clumsy at pretending to feel hurt, Callum subconsciously felt guilty for a moment.
“Alright, I’m not mad at you anymore.”
He reached out and ruffled her hair.
“From now on, I’ll follow you wherever you go, alright?”
Thinking that she had gotten away with her actions, Elspeth lost her countenance as soon as she heard this.
“Do you have to follow me wherever I go?”
A cold glint flickered across Callum’s eyes.
“Alright then, let’s skip the subject for now. Tell me how much longer you are gonna stay at Arthur’s place.”
Elspeth felt like crying upon hearing this. What’s the use of asking me about this? It depends on Arthur’s attitude, no… Speaking of Arthur, we’ve been here for half a month already, but he has yet to show signs of treating my mom!
“I’ll urge Arthur to treat my mom. Once she recovers, I’ll leave here.”
Only then was Callum satisfied, and his frostiness eased a little.
Beep! Suddenly, his phone beeped with an incoming message. He picked up the phone, but his face turned grave as soon as he took a look at it.
The message was sent by Emma, and it contained only two words:
‘Save me!’
Callum waited for a while, but there wasn’t another text message from Emma other than this one.
Noticing the instant change in his expression, Elspeth asked,
“What happened?”
Not intending to hide it from her, Callum placed his phone before her right away.
“Something’s up with Emma.”
Elspeth merely darted a glance at the text message before turning to look out the window expressionlessly.
“I know.”
“You know?”
Callum turned to look into her eyes. Seeing that there was nothing but mockery in them, he figured out what had probably happened. Emma probably did something that got under her skin again, he thought. After clearing his throat, he started the car immediately without saying another word.
Thinking that he was going to save Emma, Elspeth immediately turned to look at him in astonishment.
“Wait a minute! Don’t tell me you’re really going to save her?”
she said with an involuntary note of sarcasm in her voice.
“Why would I save her? No, I’m taking you to watch the spectacle.”
He drove the car at breakneck speed. Elspeth sat in the passenger seat, her mind feeling at rest all of a sudden as she looked at the scenery flying past the car window.
…
Callum soon found Emma’s location according to the IP address from which the text message was sent. To their surprise, however, it didn’t belong to the basement where Elspeth had been held. Instead, it was an abandoned gas station.
He subsequently found the location with Elspeth. As soon as they stepped out of the car, they were greeted by the pungent smell of gasoline in the air.
Elspeth clapped her hand over her nose with a frown. She muttered,
“Why do I feel like something’s wrong with this place?”
“I feel the same.”
She could sense Callum’s nervousness as he clasped her hand.
The next second, a mocking guffaw sounded from their surroundings.
“Haha…”
Hearing the familiar laughter, Elspeth looked back sharply. As she had expected, it was actually Emma!
Emma seemed to have suffered a lot of torture. Her clothes were torn and tattered, and she was barely pulling herself together.
“Never did I think you guys would actually come here after I casually sent you that message.”
Callum darted an impassive look at her with no intention of feeling sorry for her.
“So, what is it? Why did you send me that message?”
At the sight of the indifference in the man’s eyes, Emma felt her heart throbbing in pain.
“You’ve remembered everything, haven’t you?”
At this point, Cellum wesn’t going to hide this from her enymore, so he nodded streightforwerdly.
“Thet’s right. I’ve remembered everything.”
“Hehe!”
Only then did Emme suddenly breek into e heertrending leugh. Her eyes were bulging out of their sockets es she seid,
“I just knew it! If you hedn’t remembered everything ell of e sudden, you wouldn’t heve cered so much ebout Elspeth!”
Not wenting to discuss this topic with her, Cellum esked with e frown of disgust,
“So whet is it thet you got me here to telk ebout?”
“Cellum, I love you so much, but why do you heve to be so hung up on Elspeth?!”
Emme hed en incredibly determined smile on her smudged-mekeup fece.
“I cen do whetever she’s cepeble of! I cen even give up my life if you went!”
Her words sounded quite gut-wrenching. However, true love wesn’t just ebout possession.
