Hiding Behind Her Superficiality by Kyla Olson

Arthur stared at the unconscious Elspeth beside him as a smirk crept up his face. You still fell into my hands!

Just as he was about to carry her up to the hotel room, a loud crash echoed from the sandalwood door as it was kicked wide open.

Callum’s face went dark as he saw Elspeth lying motionless in Arthur’s arms. Although he looked sickly, he still managed to exude a threatening aura. “Put Elspeth down, Arthur!”

When he was unconscious, he overheard Elspeth say that she would meet Arthur at the hotel. He tried his hardest to pry his eyes open when he felt the emptiness beside him to look for her. Just as expected, he found her there.

“That was quick of you, Callum,” Arthur sneered. It was frankly not within his calculations that Callum would still have the strength to come over when he was poisoned. Nevertheless, Arthur had to give him credit for his tenacity.

“Well, I wouldn’t have known you were such a b*stard if I didn’t.”

Callum coughed softly with a hand over his mouth and tried to suppress the ill effects of the poison on his person. His gaze landed on Elspeth in Arthur’s arms as fury lit up in his eyes. “Aren’t you releasing her?”

“Let her go?”

Arthur jeered, “Have you forgotten that you’re poisoned, Callum? You won’t be able to beat me no matter how proficient you are at fighting.”

“Who told you that I came alone?”

Suddenly, a group of burly men showed up from behind Callum. They were all packed with muscles, making it an intimidating scene.

That made Arthur’s smile disappear in an instant. “You’re pretty clever.”

“You only have one minute, Arthur. Put Elspeth down and hand over the ginkgo.”

Callum’s words felt like a joke to Arthur as he sharply rebuffed, “Elspeth is in my hands now. Shouldn’t you be the one listening to my demands?” How dare Calum threaten me? I guess he doesn’t care about Elspeth’s life!

“You’re only one man here, Arthur. You don’t even have a single chip to barter against me.”

“Is that so?”

Callum’s taunt as he smashed the glass onto the floor and picked up a shard, threateningly holding it against Elspeth’s neck with a manic smile. “Elspeth’s life

hesitated for a moment before calmly answering, “Okay. Release her, and I’ll let you

play the hero and save the damsel in distress. I’ll return her to you once I

waist as he slowly made his way

quietly behind. Then, he even caught Elspeth, who was thrown to the ground as Arthur

was in his arms, only to see that

good news to him that Elspeth wasn’t unconscious, but she tricked him

as sneaky as him to reveal his ace up his sleeves to me so easily. So, I pretended to faint under his drug

hand and playfully shook a small glass

amused smile crept onto his face. “Arthur will be

the one

top to bottom. Once he was confident that she was alright, he

drug was like child’s play and scorned, “I noticed it with just one whiff. That’s such a simple drug that I

that the person he was worried about

here? Didn’t you

I woke up and recalled what you said when I was unconscious. So, I came here and found

If Arthur had been more ruthless… He didn’t dare think

You and Frank will recover just fine once I’m done

agreement, and their entire

soon came over with

do anything advanced with the lack of equipment here. So, I can’t turn

bottle and watched the liquid swirl around as he

I wanted you dead, I would have transferred all your assets under your name to mine. Besides, who would use such an expensive herb as a poison?

sky-high. People fought for it as it was extremely scarce.

she said funny and couldn’t help but

you