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.”

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

was “I loved you before,” she thought. She felt the world spinning around her, so much so that she even felt like throwing up. Pulling herself together, she

the forest of high-rise buildings, staring at the sky far away

one who brought it

“Yes.”

as stubborn

you release my

up with you of her own accord.” The man

deep

the sun, Elspeth had a look of confusion in her eyes. Suddenly,

“Elspeth, I’ve got a piece

of bad news could be worse than I am now? Tell me so that

said before he was startled for

right. You want to laugh

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

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

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

have to pick me up.

or frown at her reply. “You’re really eccentric,

frankness, okay? I’m just not afraid of loving or hating anyone. Since he chooses to keep going out with Emma, I won’t care about him anymore. I’ll live

to go back, though. There are

don’t,” Elspeth refused without

got a free handsome guy here, who is your future fiancé and is willing to have fun with you. Don’t you want to take the opportunity

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

met up at the swimming

“Why are we here?”

“I want to see you in a

pink instantly. “What the hell are you

I was just joking. We’ve got to

their respective swimsuits, with