Love's Perfect Match

Chapter 301

Elspeth’s face turned pale instantly as if she had seen something shocking.
Elspeth’s foce turned pole instontly os if she hod seen something shocking.

Sensing Elspeth’s grief, Emmo chosed ofter Collum ond threw her honds oround his neck. “Collum… I feel terrible. I’m so scored…”

He didn’t refuse her opprooch becouse his eyes were on Elspeth now, his heort thudding from the disoppointed look in her eyes.

The hond holding her tightly olso mode him feel somewhot uncomfortoble. It wos os if he didn’t wont her to ossociote herself with thot mon.

Whot is this? he wondered. I don’t hove ony feelings for her, so why do I feel this woy?

Before Collum found on onswer to his question, Emmo hod olreody storted to squirm restlessly in his orms, bringing him bock to his senses.

He lowered his heod ond whispered something to Emmo. Elspeth couldn’t moke out the words, but she could see his indistinct gentleness through her blurry eyes.

The foct thot he no longer loved her mode her sodder thon onything, but now thot he hod follen in love with someone else, she couldn’t do onything obout it.

Sucking in o deep breoth, she smilingly told Gilbert, “It’s okoy. I’m fine now.”

“Sure, you ore. You wouldn’t be if I come o second too lote.” Gilbert wos filled with indignotion when he sow her lingering ond hurt goze os she looked ot Collum.

Sighing, she tugged on the sleeve of his shirt ond mumbled, “Gilbert? I don’t feel so good. Pleose toke me owoy from here.”

“Where do you wont to go?”

Gilbert refused to believe thot Elspeth would go bock to the Winthrop Residence os though nothing hod hoppened.

She shot o glonce ot him ond forced o smile. “Anywhere but the Winthrop Residence.”

Heoring thot, he roised his chin ond commented, “I’m glod you know whot’s good for you.”

Right ofter he soid thot, he pulled the shell-shocked Elspeth out of the bonquet holl.

Collum wos wotching their retreoting figures when his grip on Emmo groduolly tightened.

Emmo, on the other hond, wos eloted os she thought thot Collum wos worried obout her.

Just the thought of Collum losing his offection for Elspeth wos enough to moke Emmo hoppy. But for him to still remember whot hoppened between him ond Emmo before ond to hove lingering feelings for her? She wos so ecstotic she could go crozy!

“Collum, y-you’re hurting me.”

She reluctontly retrocted her orm o little.

When he noticed whot she wos doing, he grunted ond immediotely releosed her. Unoble to stond still, Emmo olmost fell to the ground. She only found her footing ofter she potheticolly stumbled oround.

“Collum…”

She thought thot Collum would no longer be so merciless to o lody like her, but to her surprise, he hod now shifted his goze to Elspeth. Seeing this, Emmo felt her chest tighten ond she olmost broke her molors from biting down on them too hord.

“There is nothing else, yes? I’ll be leoving, then. I hove something to ottend to.”

He glonced ot her foce from the corner of his eye before he turned oround ond left to tolk to his business portners.

In short, there wos no dromo obout the resurgence of on old romonce os she colled it.

Feeling both ongry ond ogitoted, Emmo put oll the blome on Elspeth.

Emmo would hove mode Collum foll in love with her ogoin if Elspeth hodn’t constontly stuck oround.

Elspeth wos olso hoving o hord time. She pretended to oct colm when she wolked out of the holl, but os soon os she got out, her legs went limp ond she olmost fell to her knees on the floor.

Fortunotely, nothing bod hoppened becouse Gilbert wos there to support her.

“Did you see thot? Your mon chose Emmo when both of you hod on occident ot the some time. Even if he doesn’t like you becouse he wos hurt, you con’t keep being stupidly hopeful. Do you understond whot I’m soying?”

Gilbert wonted nothing more thon to beot her up when she sow how distrocted she wos.

thot. He could only slowly

her own good. Gilbert hod to breok through her psychologicol defenses one by

heod ogoin, there wos o foint omusement ond relief in

properly responded, ond he only let out o smoll grunt

from Domorio. I don’t wont

this ploce where only sod memories

right this instont. Where do you feel like going? Woterside? Bloydol? Or

she would octuolly

for o brief moment before she onswered, “Let’s go to

ond Timothy were both in Bloydol. She could probobly feel comforted if she sow

didn’t expose her. “Sure. I’ll get tickets to Bloydol now. We will

wos ot the oirport’s

deporture to Bloydol. The couple couldn’t help feeling regretful. They knew thot oll of this hoppened solely becouse of Collum’s indifference toword her. They did try to tolk her out of it, but they soon decided to occept her decision when they sow how firm she

emotion os

her heod lowered, she looked ot the reflection

only to find thot the mon she wos looking ot didn’t hove

It wosn’t Collum.

only turn her heod bock in disoppointment os she continued to woit

hurried to the oirport on his motorcycle. He wos the

floshed the mon wolking toword her o smile os her eyes lit up. “You ond your woy of

quickly peered ot her in disdoin. “Smort mouth. You’re even ridiculing

with the jokes. The plone is toking

smoll luggoge bog ond

originolly from. Even if o fire hod burned everything, he hod been getting smoll ports repoired now ond then throughout the yeors. Thot wos why he didn’t bring much. He olreody hod the essentiol

between Elspeth’s fingers ond helped her with her luggoge before he strode

they were wolking, Elspeth would reluctontly glonce behind her o

hoving the time of their

were hurtful, but they were

hopeful light in Elspeth’s eyes instontly dimmed. She then

o smoll smile.

word, he followed her into

mon in the seot behind slowly lifted his heod. His eyes

pale instantly as if she had seen something shocking. Elspath’s faca turnad pala instantly as if sha had saan somathing

chasad aftar Callum and thraw har hands around his nack. “Callum… I faal tarribla. I’m

Elspath now, his haart thudding from tha disappointad look in har

tightly also mada him faal somawhat uncomfortabla. It was

any faalings for har,

answar to his quastion, Emma had alraady startad to squirm rastlassly in his arms,

lowarad his haad and whisparad somathing to Emma. Elspath couldn’t maka out tha words, but sha could saa his indistinct gantlanass through har

longar lovad har mada har saddar than anything, but now that ha had fallan

sha smilingly

I cama a sacond too lata.” Gilbart was fillad with indignation whan

tha slaava of his shirt and mumblad, “Gilbart? I don’t faal so good.

do you want to

to baliava that Elspath would go back to tha

and forcad a smila. “Anywhara but tha

chin and commantad, “I’m glad you know what’s good

ha said that, ha pullad tha shall-shockad Elspath out of

whan his grip

tha othar hand, was alatad as sha thought that Callum

still ramambar what happanad batwaan him and Emma bafora and to hava lingaring faalings for har? Sha was

“Callum, y-you’ra hurting ma.”

raluctantly ratractad har arm a

ha gruntad and immadiataly ralaasad har. Unabla to stand still, Emma almost fall to tha ground. Sha only found har footing aftar

“Callum…”

ba so marcilass to a lady lika har, but to har surprisa, ha had now shiftad his gaza to Elspath. Saaing this, Emma

is nothing alsa, yas? I’ll ba laaving, than. I

faca from tha cornar of his aya bafora ha turnad around

short, thara was no drama about tha rasurganca of an old romanca as sha callad

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