Hiding Behind Her Superficiality by Kyla Olson

Chapter 68 Pretend to Be Together

“I’m first and foremost a human being, then a doctor. It’s normal for people to have desires, including me.”

Elspeth’s phone suddenly went off and vibrated violently. The word ‘Lydia’ appeared on her screen. She took a deep breath and caved in. “Okay. I agree to your terms.”

“You’d better not plan to renege on your words after the surgery is completed because her mother would need at least three more months of treatment after the surgery.”

She shot him a cold stare. “Okay, I get it. Go on!”

“Aw, be nice. After all, I’m now considered your boyfriend, so you should be nicer toward me.”

Arthur stretched and rose to his feet. “Alright. I’ll head over and complete the surgery. Be a good girl and wait for me to come out.” He pinched her cheeks and left with a smile.

Almost immediately, Elspeth rubbed her face hard with her hands, feeling utterly disgusted. Since she needed a favor from him, she could not possibly reject his request. She had put in too much effort to rescue Lydia’s mother to lead everything into disappointment in the end.

Subsequently, Elspeth headed over to the operating theater and waited outside. Lydia was sobbing hard, so she reached out to take Lydia into her arms and gingerly comforted her by telling her that everything would be fine.

“My mom wouldn’t bear to leave me, right?”

“She would never do that. She would always be by your side.”

The surgery went on for nearly ten hours. When Arthur finally came out of the operating theater, night had fallen, and the streets were brightly lit.

He was dressed in his white coat, and despite having a face mask, his exhausted face was evident.

“The surgery has ended. It was successful, so there is no need to worry,” he reported the good news to Lydia with a smile.

As soon as Elspeth saw the smile on her face, she immediately felt a huge relief wash over her.

“Elspeth, come with me to the office.” Arthur turned his head and directed a deep look at her.

“Sure.”

his office as he changed out of his white coat and donned his

fright from his sudden move, and instinctively, she could not contain the urge to fling his hand off her. “What are

right

vehemently. “There is no need to rush

this in no time. Besides,

best to suppress her anger and finally managed to

and ended up bumping into Callum,

guys…” Callum glanced at their intertwined hands as anger simmered

“Callum, we’re about to have some supper. Would

be provoking, so Callum’s expression instantly darkened significantly.

tightened his grip on her slightly and waved their

that point, it was no longer possible to

had no idea how to explain things to Callum anyway, and now that she saw his death stare, she found it even harder to come up with the words

should

he revealed a smug look. “We sure will. We’ll try our

was thunderous. He curled his palm tightly

supper. Let’s go.” Elspeth tugged on Arthur’s sleeve and gestured for him

make a

Callum watched as Arthur left

as the couple walked out of the

smile remained. “I know you’re in love with Callum, but you’re now

seek help from him earlier. “Arthur, do you truly feel happy

had some goals he wanted to achieve, so he was indeed happy to be

your point of doing all these? There is no way that things would work out between the two of

this. “I think I have the

woman? Fall for him within three months? More like hating him to the core within three

“Let me try.”

told you there is no way I would fall for you, so you’d better give up.

get upset, right?” Arthur knew she was trying to find a way to get away from him and did not want to let her