Hiding Behind Her Superficiality by Kyla Olson

Elspeth was most surprised by this. Little did she expect that such a thing actually happened between Arthur and Emma…

She didn’t know how she returned to the hotel. When she came back, Yelena was already asleep; she even muttered something in her sleep when she heard Elspeth return.

Elspeth lay awake in bed all night. The next day, she found Callum’s address with her computer hacking skills before hurrying there early in the morning.

Callum was watching the news while jotting down notes nonstop.

“Callum, I have something to ask you about.”

Callum didn’t say a word, but his fingers trembled for a moment.

“Emma is still in touch with Arthur at the moment. Do you know that?”

Callum’s eyes darkened; there seemed to be a cold gleam in his gloomy eyes. “I do.”

“In that case, do you know they’ve slept together before?”

Callum frowned slightly with an indiscernibly complicated look on his face. “What are you telling me this for?”

Elspeth asked coldly in a stern voice, “Arthur is nominally your brother, yet he’s slept with your ex-girlfriend. Do you still want to go out with Emma now?”

Callum averted his gaze. “This has nothing to do with you.”

“Callum, tell me that you’re faking all of this and that you have your reasons for doing so. I’ll believe you if you say that.”

A frosty expression came over the man’s face. “Elspeth, stop being unreasonable, will you?”

“Callum, do you really love me?”

Callum fell silent—a silence that struck a chill into Elspeth’s heart.

“I’m gonna ask you this again, so tell me the truth. Do you still love me?”

Callum’s voice was dry and hoarse. “I loved you before.”

heart had been thrown to the bottom of a valley and crushed beneath one’s heel. Her face turned pale, and she bit her lip involuntarily. She clenched her fists so hard

she thought. She felt the world spinning around her, so much so that she even felt like throwing up.

Callum stood upright in front of the French window from which one could overlook the forest of high-rise buildings, staring at the sky far away from

one

“Yes.”

is as stubborn as a mule. She’d never give up easily unless she broke

you release my

difficult for you as long as you’re willing to go out with Emma and make Elspeth break up with you of her own accord.” The man guffawed. “I’ll release Mrs.

a deep breath. “I

look of confusion in

time. “Elspeth, I’ve got a piece of

tremendous effort, Elspeth smiled in the glaring sun, saying, “What kind of bad news could be worse than I

said before he was startled for

to laugh at me,

on a frosty note, which was pretty rare. “No, I don’t. I just think that the

Callum, though. She came back to the subject, asking, “So what’s the

Mr. Joneson is coming to Waterside in three days to pick you up. I told you why; it’s because he wants you

but he doesn’t have to pick me up. I’m going back

laugh or frown at her reply.

anyone. Since he chooses to keep going out with Emma, I won’t care about him anymore. I’ll

are many fun places

Elspeth refused

over the phone. “As it happens, you’ve got a free handsome guy here, who is your future fiancé and is willing to have fun with you. Don’t

first, Elspeth wanted to turn down his suggestion, but on second thought, what the man said seemed to make sense. After all, she had suffered so many injustices over

few minutes later, they met up at the

“Why are we here?”

Elspeth up and down. “I want to see you in

face turned pink instantly. “What the hell are

joking. We’ve got to

man’s suggestion. They changed into their respective swimsuits, with Elspeth wearing a pink swimsuit that outlined her perfect figure and revealed her fair and