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.

the rearview mirror. His lips were pressed together in a thin line and his eyes were focused on

about the hotel

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

of an even

he been tailing us the whole

as soon as that thought flashed across

Why would he spend his time and energy on anyone else, especially the ex-fiancée whom he has long since

show up at a place like that so late at

it also sounded as

this area so

on the front passenger seat

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

dumbfounded. Why did the flames spread to her when she

before closing her eyes. Her heart was a

had always been someone who didn’t want to waste his time on anything, and he rarely changed his

was midnight, and in the past, he would never allow

Jasmine’s sake, he changed his habit

Winthrop Group and the bakery that sold the pear tarts were on opposite ends of the city with several dozen

guess that’s

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

covered in a jacket that had a familiar bluegrass scent to it.

was gone. Callum was the only other person in the car. He was sitting in the driver’s seat and the car was stopped by the

out the window with her bleary eyes. They

didn’t you wake me

the jacket and placed

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

home,” Elspeth said politely. Her

this happens

heartless

Callum quipped,

to do with you,

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

at once to avoid hearing anything else that would only rile

Elspeth disappear from

hotels along Harmony Street in the northern part of the

he called seemed confused and repeated hesitatingly, “Demolish the