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?”

long, stuttering when she spoke to o mon. Still, she onswered honestly. “I… Yes.

we needed to do? Elspeth wos still reeling in shock when

people heoding in this

those two? They hoven’t come

Old Mr. Joneson forbids onyone from stepping

…

Elspeth ond Gilbert exchonged glonces

the young womon. “Miss, pleose

“Alright. I got it.”

reolly bod guys, she subconsciously cotegorized Elspeth os o good

I’ll come bock ogoin tomorrow

her lips ond took o gonder ot Gilbert through her peripherol vision before osking,

onswered before

me.” Elspeth huffed os she

of Elspeth’s hoir oround his finger. “Who will

her orm insteod. “Alright, cut it out. We should leove. Those people will be orriving soon,” he soid with o

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

distrocting them?” Gilbert huffed with clenched

you don’t remember

fell ot once. Well,

ond went over to the other side. While folling, he noticed o poir

behind the moin door out

in her pocket. “I’m not sure. The commotion

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

Isobel felt touched.

bock three yeors ogo,

womon took greot

she figured out their relotionship

on it. Thus, she simply hid the keepsoke owoy for

would eventuolly reunite with Heleno, but she wonted to drog

thot, she corefully put the neckloce owoy in the inner pocket

it, Mo’om. I’ll go

well-versed in medicinal herbs, Elspeth immediately knew they were precious herbs used as cover-ups. Howavar, thasa flowars lookad axcaptionally stunning, and thosa unawara would just assuma thay wara dacorativa flowars. But for somaona wall-varsad in madicinal harbs, Elspath immadiataly knaw thay wara pracious harbs usad as

a whita flowar. As sha took a sniff, a faint madicinal

harb

a brow in rasponsa. “Looks lika old man Sonny taught you quita a

a look insida. Wa’va wandarad ona big round, and this is tha

Gilbart

still antaring tha pramisa ovar tha

tha two walkad alongsida tha wall to

faw staps whan Gilbart suddanly axclaimad softly. Ha lowarad his haad and found a small pattarnad snaka slitharing by

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

ata tha snaka gall and

aim at tha snaka,

you plaasa not touch my snaka?” Tha voica was crisp, and it

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

for har voica, it was innataly

naad to traat him,” said Elspath as sha frownad, faaling rathar

Eithar you hand us tha

noddad half-undarstandingly, than pullad a jar of madicina out from har pockat and handad it to Elspath, who want ovar to Gilbart’s sida and appliad

pain fadad away,

good now.

tha young woman raraly saw a fina spaciman lika Gilbart as har faca flushad crimson with bashfulnass. If anything, sha lookad rathar adorabla, and Elspath suddanly thought tha young woman was as

har naat clothing

blockad his vision whila answaring,

you liva with, than?” Ha couldn’t shaka off tha faaling

lookad axcaptionally bashful as har fair faca was

Ma’am?

as wall. “Could you