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.

a thin line and his eyes were focused on the road up ahead. It was

Callum know about the

a hotel here and didn’t want

thought of an even more

tailing us the whole

as that thought flashed across her

and energy on anyone else, especially

Jethro didn’t notice Elspeth’s preoccupation with her thoughts. “By the way, why did you show up at a place like that so late at night, Mr. Winthrop?”

a seemingly joking manner, but it also sounded

sold in this area so I came over to get

a box on the front

treat your girlfriend so well, Mr. Winthrop. Elsie, when are you going to

Why did the flames spread to her when she didn’t

retorted curtly before closing her

who didn’t want to waste his time on anything,

was midnight, and in the past, he would

sake, he

bakery that sold the pear tarts were on opposite ends of the

guess that’s

couldn’t explain why she felt upset. Amid her blur

jacket that had a familiar bluegrass scent to it. It smelled

Callum was the only other person in the car. He was sitting in

looked out the window with her bleary

you wake

placed it on the seat

him off first and we’d only just arrived, so I didn’t

giving me a ride home,” Elspeth said politely. Her

anything like this happens again, I won’t be doing it

heartless prick,

leaving, Callum quipped,

anything to do with you, Mr.

wasn’t in the position to ask that question, so he hummed

to avoid

was dark as he watched Elspeth disappear

along Harmony Street in the northern part of the

person he called seemed confused and repeated hesitatingly, “Demolish the