Hiding Behind Her Superficiality by Kyla Olson

Although she had angered Emma enough for her to leave, Yelena’s anger still did not dissipate.

At the sight of Elspeth’s distraught state, she assumed that she had been hurt by Emma’s words and hastened to comfort her, saying, “Elspeth, don’t worry too much. Just think of what Emma said as pure bullsh*t.”

Elspeth knocked on her head and chided, “How can a young girl speak so crassly?”

“I just forgot because I was busy trying to comfort you.”

Moments later, Elspeth suddenly realized something. “Yelena, did you tell Max that you’re here?”

Recalling this matter, Yelena nibbled on her fork and replied, “I did. He said that he wanted to submit a leave of absence at school and come over with me, but I refused and came over secretly without telling him the date.”

Elspeth let out a chuckle. “What’s wrong? Don’t you want him to stay by your side all the time?”

Yelena furrowed her brow and sniffled. “That’s what I thought at first, but Max really is like my dad. Do you know that he even nags me about putting on hand cream before I go out? I can’t stand him!”

Although she said that, Elspeth knew that Yelena still liked Max. However, her feelings were no longer pathetic and were gradually being reciprocated.

“If you say that, I’m going to tell Max to start ignoring you,” Elspeth teased.

Yelena’s face fell. “Hey, don’t do that, Elspeth!”

At those words, Yelena suddenly realized that she had been teased. Her face immediately flushed red and she rushed back into her room.

Elspeth had just eaten and did not want to go back yet, so she went for a walk alone in the back garden of the hotel. While walking, she suddenly received a message from Jordan.

‘Where are you? Can we meet up now?’

Immediately, she turned her phone off, pretending to have not seen the message. However, right after that, Jordan appeared before her out of thin air.

“Hi, I’m so glad to see you.”

Elspeth let out a dry laugh in response. “I’m not.”

she turned around and

asked dubiously, “What’s this? Why have you lost so much weight after going home? Is Callum

think I need to rely on him for my

rubbed his nose. She’s

I heard something big when I came to Waterside this time.” He looked at her,

“What is it?”

hand and stood by the pond, gazing at the fishes as he said, “I heard that Callum is

and didn’t have much of a

specifically came for

already expected this, she still felt her heart skipping

and however he does it, it has nothing to

that Elspeth’s reaction was rather baffling. It made sense, though. She was simply different from other women, and

are you so calm when your fiancé is getting together with another woman right in front

don’t care at all, but if you say something like that in front of me again, I’ll push you into the

be pushed into the pond,

long moment before he slowly said,

talk about something else. How have

how I’ve been doing? You people probably have been tracing my actions since the day I

exposed, there was not a trace of embarrassment on his

smile emerged on his face as he said,

to capture me long ago. He’s concerned about me, you say? No, what he’s concerned about is whether the Joneson Family can

We have a long way ahead

small smile, Jordan swiveled around and returned to the

did she realize that those were the words she once said to Callum. Callum, we have a

the feeling that his words had

at five o’clock with Yelena to put on

character with a small role suddenly lost

Wouldn’t