“I know your skills, Arthur. It’s not bad, but you lag behind me a lot. You’re not the only one who can cure her.” Elspeth didn’t believe Arthur one bit. If he was the only one who could heal her, then what would that make all the other doctors in the world? Useless?

“Hey, I can’t do anything if you don’t believe me, but I’m indeed the only one who knows how to treat her at the moment.” Arthur smiled. “There’s a reason your grandfather asked me to help out.”

Elspeth’s heart sank. She had to say he had a point.

“However, the pacing of the treatment is under my control. I decide when she gets better, if ever.” Arthur approached Elspeth, looking down at her. He then said with a smug smile, “Get on my bad side, and I might just slip during the treatment.”

Elspeth crossed her arms. Proudly, she said, “You fail my mother, and you’ll have the whole Joneson Family after you, not just me. Don’t even try to threaten me.”

Arthur wasn’t intimidated by that threat. Instead, he laughed maniacally. “You think I care? You think I care after all you and Callum did to me?”

“What about Emma, then? Don’t you like her anymore?”

The mention of Emma broke something in Arthur. “You don’t deserve to say her name.”

do her every bidding even though she doesn’t like you, and

a step forward and grabbed Elspeth by her neck. “I said, you don’t deserve to say her name. Slander her once more and I will wipe you off

Elspeth coughed and sputtered, her face red. Arthur let her go right away. He was still at the Joneson Residence and hurting

against Emma again, and

were disheveled, from head to toe, and then he froze.

but then Arthur hunkered down and tore her collar

of it. He looked at the angry Elspeth, and

realized he was serious, and her fury subsided. “What does that have to

Arthur seemed to be in a hurry, and

“I was going to go abroad, and Damoria was one

boy under an old pagoda tree in

was a specific question. Elspeth had to wrack her brain to dig up that memory. She was about fifteen then, and she was on a long trip from Langford to Damoria. Back then, she could be considered a decent fighter, though she looked frail. She was an introvert at school and a top student, which made her the target of bullying. The headmaster’s daughter pulled a few strings and got her expelled. Left with no choice, she took some money

a victim of bullying herself, the sight made her furious. Fortunately, there weren’t a lot of boys among the group of bullies. Most of them were just high-school girls trying to be edgy. Elspeth easily kicked one of

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