Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
Max balled his fists tight and continued to whimper, “Callum, I really don’t want to break up with Yelena. Please, I beg you. Can you come with me to see her? I can’t get through to her phone because she blocked my number… Ah! We can go to Miss Elspeth! I’m sure she knows where Yelena is! Miss Elspeth and I are close. I’m sure she will tell me!”
“Are you sure you want to go? You won’t regret it?” Callum stared into Max’s eyes, his gaze darkening.
However, Max couldn’t bother with anything else now. Without understanding what Callum truly meant, he hurriedly blurted out, “Of course I want to go! I’m going to see Yelena right now. I can’t take it anymore!”
It was 2.00AM when Elspeth heard knocks coming from the door of her main entrance.
As she was a relatively light sleeper, she would wake up at the slightest disturbance.
Annoyed and resigned from hearing the heavy knocks, she had no choice but to get the door. She first observed the surrounding situation vigilantly and only opened the door when she found nothing unusual.
As soon as the door was opened, a dark figure suddenly rushed over and grabbed her arm, startling her.
After taking a good look at the figure, she finally recognized him as Max, whom she hadn’t seen in a long while.
“Max? What are you doing here at this time of the night?”
“Miss Elspeth… You know where Yelena is, don’t you? Can you please tell me where she is? I’m begging you!”
Elspeth felt a little strange seeing his almost unusual reaction. Still, she mentioned honestly, “Yelena should be sleeping at home right now. What’s the matter?”
Max shook his head as if his life depended on it. “No! She is with a man! She is at the guy’s place!”
“What? Hank brought her to his place?” Even Elspeth felt unsettled when he heard that.
That jerk! And here I am, thinking that he’s a gentleman. How could he do something so immoral?!
Elspeth wouldn’t worry as much if this was any other day. However, Yelena was drunk today. That could make her an easy target that Hank could gobble up just like that!
“Hank…” Max muttered his name as a trace of hatred flashed in his eyes. “Miss Elspeth, do you know where he is? I want to go to Yelena now!”
Hearing that, Elspeth quickly snapped out of her thoughts and shook her head. “Forget about it. I don’t know.”
She wasn’t lying about this. It was true that she didn’t know where Hank’s house was.
“Miss Elspeth, I know that you know! Don’t lie to me anymore and don’t hide it from me, okay?” Max almost started crying at that point. “I really can’t live without Yelena. I love her so much. You have to believe me!”
After saying this, he turned his head to look at Callum, who was standing in the shadows, and begged, “Callum, can you help me? I really love Yelena a lot. Can you please persuade Elspeth for me?”
It was only then that Elspeth noticed Callum standing not too far away.
He isolated himself as if he didn’t want to get involved in this matter.
“Don’t embarrass the Winthrops, Max,” the older man warned in an indifferent voice.
Max was at a complete loss.
Elspeth somewhat pitied him when she saw how confused he was while he begged, but more than that, she found him ridiculous. “To be honest, Max, I know almost everything about what you did.”
Max immediately stiffened upon hearing that.
“You appear to be deeply in love with Yelena now. Of course, you really do. But I hope you understand something. A broken mirror can’t be restored. You may be forgiven after you did something wrong, but things can never go back to what they were.”
“Is there really no chance at all?” he choked out.
“Do you know what Yelena told me? She said she doesn’t regret meeting you and experiencing so many things with you, but if she was given another chance to start all over, she wouldn’t want to know you. It’s not that she hates you or anything. She just can’t handle an ending like this.”
Max allowed his tears to roll down his cheeks and seep into the ground when he heard that. This was the first time he had ever cried.
“I’m sorry…”
Elspeth took out a tissue from her pocket and handed it to him before she patted him on the shoulder. “Alright, now. Stop clinging to her. Why don’t you be each other’s beautiful memories? As for the other things, don’t think about them. They will all slowly fade from memory.”
Fade from memory? When Callum heard those words, he slowly raised his head to peer at Elspeth not far away with a cold and dark gaze.
To his surprise, he made eye contact with her.
Callum couldn’t help thinking there was a hidden meaning behind Elspeth’s words.
However, Elspeth clearly didn’t want to waste time on them. She couldn’t stop the frown from showing up on her face when she saw Max standing there in a daze with no intention of leaving.
Right then, Callum strode over to stand beside Max. “Come home with me, Max,” he instructed.
Max first nodded, only to shake his head the next moment. He looked extremely pitiful and heart- wrenching.
“Can I see her one more time?”
Hearing that, Elspeth finally agreed to it as she couldn’t bear to watch him.
What’s more, she was a little worried that an ‘accident’ would happen to the drunk Yelena at Hank’s place.
After thinking about it, she took out her phone and gave Hank a call.
According to Max’s description earlier, Elspeth probably wouldn’t be able to call Yelena on her phone. That was why she would rather call Hank straightaway.
The phone only rang twice before the call went through.
“Hank, are you with Yelena?”
Hank was surprised by Elspeth calling him, but he nodded and replied, “That’s right. She had one too many and puked all over herself. I brought her home and cleaned her up for now.”
Elspeth’s imagination began to run wild at those words.
“Don’t tell me you helped her wash.”
Hank started laughing out loud upon hearing that. Even Max, who was beside Elspeth, slightly lifted his head, revealing a pair of bloodshot eyes.
“That, I didn’t.”
Elspeth asked again, “Is she asleep now?”
Hank hummed as he looked at Yelena snoring away in bed. “She went to bed and fell asleep right after she took a shower herself.”
“Take good care of her, then.” Elspeth sighed. Hank probably won’t lie.
“Of course.” It was a given that he wouldn’t be careless about that.
Knowing that Yelena was safe, Elspeth was at ease when she ended the call.
However, when she looked at Max, she noticed that he looked more torn than before. “Yelena is asleep. You should save the rest for tomorrow.”
Max only clenched his right fist tight. He seemed to want to say something, but he quickly swallowed his words.
Turning around, he had a worn-out smile on his face. “It’s late. I won’t disturb your sleep anymore, Miss Elspeth. Callum, let’s go home.”
Callum said nothing. He only nodded and turned the other way to walk to his car.
Max also followed after him after he gave Elspeth a deep bow.
Max sat in the passenger seat and he kept his head tilted to look at the night view outside the window.
“Callum… Why do you think things turned out this way?”
Callum kept his eyes on the road when he stated, “You only have yourself to blame.”
I only have myself to blame… Max suddenly let out a sad smile.
He still remembered the day he and Yelena met for the first time, and how she relentlessly and persistently pursued him afterward.
Initially, he wasn’t interested in the young lady whom he saved. However, she was like a sun that lit up his world and before long, he had fallen in love with her.