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.”

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 that her fingernails dug into her palms, but she didn’t feel any pain.

yet all I got was “I loved you before,” she thought. She felt the world spinning around

overlook the forest of high-rise buildings, staring at the sky far away from the glass window with jet-black eyes.

the one who brought it

“Yes.”

little girl is as stubborn as a mule. She’d never give up easily unless

release

as you’re willing to go out with Emma and make Elspeth break up with

a deep breath.

of confusion in

got

the glaring sun, saying, “What kind of bad news could be worse than I am now? Tell me so that I can laugh at

on your breakup, then,” Jordan said before he was startled for a

You want to

was pretty rare. “No, I don’t. I just think that the Callum guy

Callum, though. She came back to the subject,

is coming to Waterside in three days to pick you up. I

“Okay, but he doesn’t have to pick me up.

know whether to laugh or frown at her reply. “You’re

just not afraid of loving or hating anyone. Since he chooses to keep going

go back, though. There are many fun places in Waterside, so don’t you want to visit them and

I don’t,” Elspeth

over the phone. “As it happens, you’ve got a free handsome guy here,

what the man said

minutes later, they met up at the swimming

“Why are we here?”

were blazing with passion as he eyed Elspeth up and down. “I want to see you in a

face turned pink instantly. “What the hell are

We’ve got to take

moment, Elspeth reluctantly accepted the man’s suggestion. They changed into their respective swimsuits, with Elspeth wearing a pink