Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
Callum slowly crouched down and grabbed Haris by the neck. His eyes were bloodshot. “Why not? You know full well what you were about to do to my wife.”
He couldn’t bring himself to imagine what would’ve happened to Elspeth if he’d been just a step too late, or if he had no clue what was happening today.
All along, Haris never realized just how terrifying Callum could be until the truth sank into him now.
“Your father and I have a good relationship. He won’t let you treat me like this!”
Despite the hopelessness of the situation, Haris refused to give up. In his attempt to struggle out of Callum’s grip, he tried to grab the latter’s collar, but Callum dodged him with ease.
“Tie him up,” Callum instructed coolly before walking over to Elspeth.
Haris kept hollering and Callum’s brows creased once more. One of the men immediately got the hint and stuffed Haris’ mouth to shut him up.
“It’s okay. Everything’s fine now.”
Callum pulled Elspeth into his arms and gently consoled her.
“Why wouldn’t I be okay?” Elspeth chuckled. “I wasn’t scared.”
Callum bit down softly on her lips before saying, “Don’t ever go off alone and do something as dangerous as this again. I was so worried about you.”
Winter couldn’t help but blush as she watched the couple being all lovey-dovey.
She’d never dated before and the sight in front of her was more than she could handle.
“Ahem…”
The sound of Winter clearing her throat led to Callum and Elspeth finally remembering that they weren’t alone right now.
Feeling rather awkward, Winter changed the subject. “What’s going to happen to the others?”
“I’ll get someone to take them out of here and return them to their families,” Callum answered.
Winter felt deeply grateful. “Thank you, Mr. Winthrop!”
“Not at all. You helped us out a lot. Without you, we wouldn’t have been able to rescue everyone so easily.”
Elspeth also added, “You don’t need to worry about the drug he fed to you. I’ll find a way to get it out of your system.”
Winter was on the verge of tears. “Thank you so much, both of you!”
Callum instructed someone to take Winter back to the Rovers before heading to the living room with Elspeth.
Bobby had been informed of everything that occurred at Haris’ courtyard just now. He was trembling in his seat out of fear that he would be the next target.
Elspeth couldn’t be bothered to beat around the bush. She walked straight over to Bobby and looked at him with a smile. “I’m sure you’ve heard about what happened, Mr. McGrath.”
“It has nothing to do with me. I didn’t know anything about it!”
After seeing the situation he was in right now, he knew it was too late.
Thus, even though he was being unfilial by denying knowledge of the situation, he had to as he still had a daughter.
He couldn’t let the McGrath Family go down with Haris.
“You didn’t know anything, huh? Did you really not know anything?”
Elspeth surveyed Bobby with a look of amusement, but her eyes darkened.
Bobby grew flustered and averted his eyes, but he nodded adamantly. “Yes, I really didn’t know anything about it. If you don’t believe me, you can ask my butler. I barely have any contact with Old Mr. McGrath.”
The butler immediately bobbed his head up and down in agreement.
“Yes! That’s right! Mr. McGrath never has any dealings with Old Mr. McGrath!”
Although Elspeth didn’t believe a word they were saying, she knew that she had to use a different tactic to get Bobby to tell the truth.
Her eyes flickered and an idea came to mind.
She let out a grave sigh and announced, “But, Old Mr. McGrath has already spilled the beans on all of you.”
“All of us?”
Bobby didn’t think that Haris would expose Jasmine’s doings as well.
After all, Jasmine was the most important person to Haris. No one was allowed to hurt her.
“That’s impossible! My father wouldn’t have done that.”
Bobby had a fairly good understanding of Haris.
“Why not?” Elspeth took out a pill and waved it at Bobby. “I fed this to him and told him that he wouldn’t be getting the antidote if he didn’t tell me the truth.”
She tossed the pill aside and dusted off her hands.
“Who wouldn’t be afraid of dying? He told me everything.”
Bobby was sweating profusely. “Even about Jasmine?”
“Yes, especially about Jasmine. He told me every single detail of what Jasmine did.”
Elspeth started counting with her fingers. “Based on what she’s done, how long would her prison sentence be? Oh, wow. Quite long.”
Bobby jolted. If Jasmine had been ratted out, then he wouldn’t be able to escape either.
He had no choice but to hang his head low and quietly confess, “Alright. I admit it. I was aware of what was happening.”
“Couldn’t you have just admitted it right from the start? I wouldn’t have to try and think of a way to trick you into a confession.”
Bobby’s eyes grew large. “What did you say?!”
“Nothing.” Elspeth turned to Harper who was standing beside her. “Do you have it all recorded?”
Harper passed the audio recorder to her. “It’s all here.”
“How dare you trick me?!” Bobby was infuriated. He tried to lunge at Elspeth, but Callum stood in his path. “What are you trying to do?”
Bobby couldn’t bother to keep up appearances anymore. He bellowed at the top of his lungs, “How dare you trick me?! You’re going to rot in hell for this, Elspeth!”
Elspeth shrugged nonchalantly.
“Before that, you’re going to have to rot in prison first, Mr. McGrath.”
Callum got the message and called his men over to grab Bobby and haul him out.
As soon as Bobby was taken out of the house, Jasmine came marching over.
She was trembling with rage as she glared at the familiar faces in front of her. “What did you do to my family?!”
She was out shopping earlier and didn’t expect to find that misfortune had befallen the entire family in just a few short hours.
Just moments ago, she saw the men dragging her father out and heard him yelling to her, “Jasmine, they took your grandfather away!”
Jasmine immediately rushed into the house.
“What did I do to your family? What do you mean by that? Shouldn’t I be the one asking you what you did to my family?” Elspeth wasn’t furious. She simply chuckled and remarked, “Oh, well. Things have more or less been settled now. All that’s left is you.”
Jasmine’s rage subsided a little as an uneasy feeling crept into her heart. “What do you mean all that’s left is me?”
“I’m here to settle the score.” Elspeth stuck her hands in her pockets. “Tell us everything you did.”
