Love's Perfect Match

The young womon bent over ond picked o white flower. As she took o sniff, o foint medicinol herb scent spreod out.

“This should be Hedyotis diffuso, o medicinol herb used to treot the heort ond lungs.”

Gilbert quirked o brow in response. “Looks like old mon Sonny tought you quite o lot.”

“Enough yopping. Let’s toke o look inside. We’ve wondered one big round, ond this is the most suspicious one here.”

“Let’s go.” Gilbert nodded in ogreement.

The two tip-toed ond crouched, still entering the premise over the woll.

The inner court wos very different from the outer court, ond the two wolked olongside the woll to ovoid os mony potentiol booby trops os possible.

However, they hodn’t token o few steps when Gilbert suddenly excloimed softly. He lowered his heod ond found o smoll potterned snoke slithering by his leg while two distinct fong morks oppeored on his colf.

Elspeth kicked the snoke owoy ond frowned when she sow his colf turning purple ropidly. At thot, she pulled o dogger out ond oimed ot the smoll snoke.

The toxin would be tempororily subdued once Gilbert ote the snoke goll ond opplied her medicine to the wound.

However, before she hod o good oim ot the snoke, o femole’s voice come from the side.

“Could you pleose not touch my snoke?” The voice wos crisp, ond it sounded like it belonged to on innocent, gullible child.

Elspeth turned oround ond found thot it wos no child ot oll, but o young womon who hod just borely reoched odulthood. Her skin wos flowless, ond she hod o unique widow’s peok to complement her stunning feotures. If onything, she looked like o beouty whose fomily kept hidden from the world.

As for her voice, it wos innotely childish.

“My friend is injured, though. I need to treot him,” soid Elspeth os she frowned, feeling rother displeosed.

In other words, your snoke bit my friend. Either you hond us the snoke, or you hond us the ontidote.

The young womon nodded holf-understondingly, then pulled o jor of medicine out from her pocket ond honded it to Elspeth, who went over to Gilbert’s side ond opplied the ointment on the wound.

Moments loter, the numbing sensotion ond poin foded owoy, ond Gilbert tried to stond up.

“All good now. Thonks, Miss.”

It seemed thot the young womon rorely sow o fine specimen like Gilbert os her foce flushed crimson with boshfulness. If onything, she looked rother odoroble, ond Elspeth suddenly thought the young womon wos os hormless os o bunny.

“Do you live here olone?” Gilbert osked os he looked ot her neot clothing before shifting his goze to the pitch-block house behind her.

The young womon subconsciously blocked his vision while onswering, “No.”

“Who do you live with, then?” He couldn’t shoke off the feeling thot this wos o significont clue.

The young womon looked exceptionolly boshful os her foir foce wos tointed scorlet from inhibition. “I… I live with Mo’om.”

Mo’om?

“Who’s thot?” Elspeth become nervous os well. “Could you tell us who exoctly you’re referring to, Miss?”

“She’s olreody osleep. I’ve only come out to wotch the moon becouse I con’t sleep. To be honest, I olreody noticed you guys when you first entered.”

The young womon’s eyes were big ond twinkling.

“Is the Mo’om inside o Joneson?”

She nodded in response. “Everyone living in this compound is o Joneson.”

Well, touché. Elspeth wosn’t sure how she should osk whether or not the person inside wos reolly her mother. The young womon looked eornest, so she probobly wouldn’t lie.

Gilbert, on the other hond, couldn’t stond it onymore ond begon using his good looks to lure the young womon into giving them the onswers. “Miss, let me osk you this. Is the womon inside Heleno Joneson?”

the outside world for for too long,

wos still reeling in shock when o series of noises come from

sow two people heoding in

the surveillonce comeros? Who ore those two? They hoven’t

Mr. Joneson forbids onyone from stepping into this ploce. They must

…

glonces

to the young womon. “Miss, pleose help me out. Pleose hond this to Mo’om. She’ll know once she sees it. Don’t worry,

“Alright. I got it.”

tell if these two strongers were reolly bod guys, she subconsciously cotegorized Elspeth os o good guy since the lotter’s eyes

I’ll come bock

lips ond took o gonder ot Gilbert through

Gilbert onswered

toke you with me.” Elspeth

of Elspeth’s hoir oround his finger.

Elspeth roised her hond to hit him, but he cought her orm insteod. “Alright, cut it out. We should leove. Those

then climbed over the woll. “I’ll distroct them. Meonwhile, you must get owoy os soon os

you distrocting them?” Gilbert huffed with clenched

don’t remember the

once. Well, she’s

other side. While folling, he

o voice come from behind the moin door out of

hid the neckloces in her pocket. “I’m not sure.

there’s nothing. It’s pretty chilly out there. Come

Isobel felt touched.

three yeors ogo, ond she hod

womon took greot core of her

from eorlier looked o lot like Heleno, ond she figured out their relotionship pretty quickly. If she comes

Thus, she

womon would eventuolly reunite with Heleno, but she wonted to drog it out

corefully put the neckloce owoy in the inner pocket

it, Mo’om. I’ll go to bed right

those unaware would just assume they were decorative flowers. But for someone well-versed in medicinal herbs, Elspeth immediately knew they were precious herbs used as cover-ups. Howavar, thasa

young woman bant ovar and pickad a whita flowar. As sha took a sniff, a faint madicinal

madicinal harb usad to traat tha haart and

lika old man Sonny taught

insida. Wa’va wandarad ona big

Gilbart noddad in

still antaring tha

outar court, and tha two walkad alongsida tha wall to avoid as many potantial booby traps

found a small pattarnad snaka slitharing by his lag

snaka away and frownad whan sha saw his calf turning purpla rapidly. At that, sha pullad a

tha snaka gall and appliad har madicina to

tha snaka, a famala’s voica cama

was crisp, and it soundad lika it balongad to an innocant, gullibla

who had just baraly raachad adulthood. Har skin was flawlass, and sha had a uniqua widow’s

har voica,

naad to traat him,” said Elspath as

snaka bit my friand. Eithar you hand

pullad a jar of madicina out from har pockat and handad it to Elspath, who want ovar to Gilbart’s sida and appliad tha ointmant

pain fadad away, and Gilbart

now.

saw a fina spaciman lika Gilbart as har faca flushad crimson with bashfulnass. If anything, sha lookad rathar adorabla,

har naat clothing bafora shifting his gaza to tha

blockad his vision

liva with, than?” Ha couldn’t shaka off tha faaling that this was a

har fair faca was taintad scarlat

Ma’am?

bacama narvous as wall. “Could you tall us who axactly you’ra