Hiding Behind Her Superficiality by Kyla Olson

Chapter 370 The Cheapest Car

Callum didn’t say no, so he seemed to have agreed to it, but Elspeth rejected the idea. “That won’t be necessary. We can wait a little longer for a cab.”

Jethro didn’t want to wait, so he pleaded with Elspeth like an obedient younger brother. “Elsie, Mr. Winthrop is nice enough to give us a ride, so why shouldn’t we accept his kind gesture?”

Elsie…

Callum’s face grew colder as he repeated the nickname in his head.

Elspeth was startled. For some reason, even though she and Callum were uninvolved in every way, she still felt a trace of awkwardness when Jethro called her Elsie.

To avoid giving Jethro the chance to say anything else that was too suggestive, she agreed.

“Oh, fine. Let’s go.”

So, obliging with the little kid?

Callum looked at them with scrutiny.

The two of them got into Callum’s car while the electric scooter was temporarily abandoned by the side of the road.

Jethro left the key in the ignition and said he was giving it away to anyone who chanced upon it since the Wilstones had more than enough vehicles.

Elspeth was smiling as she remarked sarcastically to herself, It’s obvious that you can’t be bothered to call someone to tow it away.

However, as she was sitting inside Callum’s car right now, she wasn’t in the mood to think about anything else. On the other hand, Jethro seemed eager to stir up trouble as he kept dragging all sorts of things up.

“Elsie, I heard that you were in a relationship with Mr. Winthrop before. Is that true?”

Elspeth’s smile stiffened.

“If you can’t hold your tongue, then keep your mouth shut.”

Callum, who was fully focused on driving, tapped his finger on the steering wheel when he heard the question, but he didn’t respond.

“Well, so what? It’s all in the past, and anyway, Mr. Winthrop has a new fiancée now. I’m sure you have already gotten over the relationship too.”

It was to be expected from someone who only recently became of age. He thought of relationships as something so inconsequential.

Elspeth couldn’t be bothered to waste her breath with him. She turned toward the window instead and just so happened to catch sight of the hotel before it whizzed past her.

So, there’s a hotel nearby.

in the rearview mirror. His lips were pressed together in a thin line and his eyes were focused on the road up ahead. It was as if he

know about

come over to pick us up because he knew there was a hotel here and didn’t want me

of an even more

he been tailing us the

flashed across

now. Why would he spend his time and energy on anyone

preoccupation with her thoughts. “By the way, why did you show up at a

a seemingly joking manner, but it also sounded as if he was

in this area so I came over to get

a box on the front

widened. “You treat your girlfriend so well, Mr. Winthrop. Elsie, when are you going to agree to go out with me? I’ll definitely treat you just as

flames spread to her when she didn’t

curtly before closing her eyes. Her heart was a

time on anything, and he rarely changed his lifestyle and

would never allow himself to

he changed his

sold the pear tarts were on opposite ends of the city

guess that’s

strangely melancholic. She couldn’t explain why she felt upset. Amid

woke up again, she was covered in a jacket that had a familiar bluegrass scent to it. It smelled

other person in the car. He was sitting in the driver’s seat and the car

looked out the window with her

didn’t you

placed it on

we’d only just arrived, so

home,” Elspeth said politely. Her tone was even more distant as if

anything like this happens again, I won’t be

a heartless prick,

leaving, Callum quipped,

anything to

in the position to ask that question, so he hummed coolly

to avoid

he watched Elspeth disappear from sight. Then,

hotels along Harmony Street in the northern part of the

he called seemed confused and repeated