“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,

you don’t deserve to say her name. Slander her

right away. He was still at the

go against Emma again, and I will

head to toe, and then he froze. “W-Why

Elspeth glared at Arthur angrily. She quickly straightened her clothes and was about to stand up, but then Arthur hunkered down and tore her collar open to have a closer look at

didn’t make Arthur snap out of it. He looked at the angry Elspeth, and with a trembling voice, he said, “W-Were you in Damoria eight years

her, but then she realized he was serious,

to be in a hurry, and he was

Elspeth nodded. “I was going to go abroad, and Damoria was one of

an old pagoda

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

Elspeth was 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

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