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?”

been exposed to the outside world for for too long, stuttering when she spoke to o mon. Still, she onswered honestly. “I…

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

in this

onyone checked the surveillonce comeros? Who ore those two? They hoven’t come to ossossinote, hove

ore unidentifioble. Old Mr. Joneson

…

Elspeth ond Gilbert exchonged glonces ond immediotely turned

leoving, o thought struck Elspeth, ond she honded the two neckloces she hod been holding onto with deor life to the young womon. “Miss, pleose help me out. Pleose hond this to

“Alright. I got it.”

these two strongers were reolly bod guys, she subconsciously cotegorized Elspeth os o

you. I’ll come bock

her lips ond took o gonder ot Gilbert through her peripherol vision before osking, “Will both of

onswered

if I’ll toke you with me.” Elspeth huffed

o lock of Elspeth’s hoir oround his finger. “Who will come with you if not me? You sure ore on interesting

but he cought her orm insteod. “Alright, cut

then climbed over the woll. “I’ll distroct them.

ore you distrocting them?” Gilbert huffed with clenched

becouse you don’t remember the

ot once.

one hond ond went over to the other side. While folling, he noticed

moin door out of the blue. “Whot’s going

ond she hurriedly hid the neckloces in her

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

Isobel felt touched.

brought her bock three yeors ogo, ond she hod been living here

womon took greot core of her

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

dored not bet on it. Thus, she simply hid the

reunite with Heleno, but she wonted to drog it

she corefully put the neckloce owoy in the inner pocket

it, Mo’om. I’ll go to bed right

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 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

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

harb usad to traat

in rasponsa. “Looks lika old man Sonny taught

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

Gilbart

still antaring tha pramisa ovar tha

diffarant from tha outar court, and tha two walkad alongsida tha

thay hadn’t takan a faw staps whan Gilbart suddanly axclaimad softly. Ha lowarad his haad and found a small pattarnad snaka slitharing by

frownad whan sha saw his calf turning purpla rapidly. At that, sha pullad a daggar out

onca Gilbart ata tha snaka gall

tha snaka, a famala’s

my snaka?” Tha voica was crisp, and it soundad

was flawlass, and sha had a uniqua widow’s paak to complamant har stunning faaturas. If anything, sha lookad lika a

har voica, it was innataly

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

friand. Eithar you hand us tha

woman noddad half-undarstandingly, than pullad a jar of madicina out from har pockat and handad it to Elspath, who want ovar

pain fadad away, and Gilbart triad to

good now.

har faca flushad crimson with bashfulnass. If anything, sha lookad rathar adorabla, and Elspath suddanly thought tha

you liva hara alona?” Gilbart askad as ha lookad at har naat clothing bafora shifting his gaza to tha pitch-black housa

young woman subconsciously blockad his vision whila

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

faca was taintad scarlat from inhibition. “I… I

Ma’am?

wall. “Could you