Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
“Miss Lynwood.”
Elspeth turned around with a confused expression on her face.
“What’s wrong?”
Timothy thought for a bit, then couldn’t help but blurt out,
“You’re the president of Azure Corporation, aren’t you?”
Elspeth’s smile froze on her face.
“Why do you think that?”
“If you’re not the president of Azure Corporation, why would you spend so much effort to get me to work at Luminous? If a mere mention of your name would grant me entry at Luminous, it’s easy to imagine the high position you’re in for me to be treated like that.”
Timothy wasn’t one to hold onto traditions and stereotypes. Instead, from all his struggling years of experience with companies, he could tell that the brilliant young lady in front of him was his boss.
“Since you’ve already guessed it, I’ll stop pretending. Yes, I am the president of Azure Corporation, and I sincerely want you to work in my company.”
Elspeth readily admitted it.
After all, even if the bottom staff didn’t know who she was, by the time Timothy joined the company, he would be one of the executives at Luminous and would find out sooner or later.
“All right, got it. Thank you, President.”
Seeing that Elspeth wasn’t hiding it from him, Timothy grew more attached to her.
“Arthur?”
Elspeth saw him sitting on the chair, and he blocked her way just by extending one of his long legs. She was feeling more annoyed now.
“Why? Did you not want to see me?”
Arthur took a sip of coffee with a leisurely smile on his face.
He never thought that he would encounter her here. It saved him the trouble of looking for her.
“If you have nothing important to say, please stop appearing in my life. I’m utterly disgusted every time I see you.”
Arthur shook his head, an exasperated look on his face.
“It must be fate that we ran into each other. Since you’re here, why don’t you sit down and have a chat with me? Perhaps you’d be interested in the truth behind my mom’s incident…”
At the mention of Margot, Elspeth instantly stopped in her tracks.
“What are you trying to say?”
Seeing that she had turned around, Arthur grew more confident.
“I have a deal to discuss with you.”
Elspeth sat down on a chair nearby and raised her head, her eyes wary.
“Tell me. What deal are you thinking of?”
“A deal you’ll be interested in.”
Arthur raised an eyebrow.
“I know that you’re suspecting that matter, and you found some evidence to prove that instead of you, Ophelia was the one who harmed my mom. In an attempt to clear your name, you must’ve put in quite a lot of effort, right?”
Elspeth tightened her grip on her skirt while on tenterhooks.
“So, what are you trying to say?”
She suddenly had a bad feeling.
“I’m saying that Ophelia is indeed the one behind this incident, including the deaths of Lydia and her mother. Ophelia is the mastermind. Of course, I’m not a part of any of those,”
Arthur told her everything without hiding, which made her slightly confused.
According to Callum’s analysis, Arthur and Ophelia are most probably colluding with each other, but why is he framing her so brazenly now?
“So, what’s your point?”
She didn’t believe that he just wanted to be a good guy and help her clear her name.
“Well, if you can agree to one condition, I’m willing to help you prove that everything is Ophelia’s fault.”
Ophelia was just a usable pawn for him. Now that the pawn was useless, it was understandable for him to abandon her. It would be so much better if he could use her in exchange for a bigger benefit.
His condition was quite tempting because Elspeth couldn’t find any chance to look for the evidence that would prove Ophelia was behind everything in the near future. All she could do was wait for Margot to wake up, but her condition was not stable. It was hard to tell whether she would wake up or not.
Yet, Elspeth didn’t show any sign of anticipation on her face and instead said impatiently.
“What condition are you talking about?”
“Marry me.”
When she heard that, she stood up sharply.
“No way I’m agreeing to that.”
“Don’t rush into rejecting me first. I don’t mean for you to stay with me for the rest of your life. I just want to fake a marriage. We just need to sign the marriage certificate. When the time comes, we can file for divorce by then.”
In his eyes, marrying Elspeth and obtaining the 20 percent share was the most tempting thing for him.
As for the relationship part, he thought that it was a little precarious, so he didn’t want to force it.
“Why do you want to do that?”
He wants to fake a marriage, which means that he has no feelings for me at all.
Since it’s not to get me, what kind of benefit can he get from me?
“The reason… Of course, I have my own reason. If you change your mind, you can drop me your reply anytime.”
Arthur was rushing back to the hospital for work, so he didn’t have time to convince her here, but she wasn’t someone who could be convinced either.
“Oh, right. Don’t think about recording.”
Elspeth was shocked by his sudden turning back, and what he said shocked her further.
“You really keep your eyes open, Dr. Winthrop.”
Although that was what she said, she still reached out her hand to stuff the recorder pen back into her pocket. He got me.
After that, she returned home, which was a villa not far away.
After she moved out of the Winthrop Residence, she bought a unit in a villa area in Southdale because the location here was near the hospital, so it was easier for her to check on Margot’s condition and look for evidence.
When she came home that day, she suddenly noticed a familiar figure standing outside the villa beside hers.
However, she didn’t care much about it. Just as she wanted to enter her villa, that familiar figure suddenly turned around and called her name.
“Elspeth.”
The face and voice were just as she thought. It was Jordan, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time.
When Jordan found out that Elspeth lived here, he showed an unbelievable and surprised expression on his face.
