Sweetheart, Do You Still Love Me?

She didn’t know how she returned to the hotel. When she came back, Yelena was already asleep; she even muttered something in her sleep when she heard Elspeth return.

Elspeth lay awake in bed all night. The next day, she found Callum’s address with her computer hacking skills before hurrying there early in the morning.

Callum was watching the news while jotting down notes nonstop.

“Callum, I have something to ask you about.”

Callum didn’t say a word, but his fingers trembled for a moment.

“Emma is still in touch with Arthur at the moment. Do you know that?”

Callum’s eyes darkened; there seemed to be a cold gleam in his gloomy eyes. “I do.”

“In that case, do you know they’ve slept together before?”

Callum frowned slightly with an indiscernibly complicated look on his face. “What are you telling me this for?”

Elspeth asked coldly in a stern voice, “Arthur is nominally your brother, yet he’s slept with your ex-girlfriend. Do you still want to go out with Emma now?”

Callum averted his gaze. “This has nothing to do with you.”

“Callum, tell me that you’re faking all of this and that you have your reasons for doing so. I’ll believe you if you say that.”

A frosty expression came over the man’s face. “Elspeth, stop being unreasonable, will you?”

“Callum, do you really love me?”

Callum fell silent—a silence that struck a chill into Elspeth’s heart.

“I’m gonna ask you this again, so tell me the truth. Do you still love me?”

Callum’s voice was dry and hoarse. “I loved you before.”

though her heart had been thrown to the bottom of a valley and crushed beneath one’s heel. Her face turned pale, and she bit her lip involuntarily. She clenched her fists so hard that her fingernails dug into her

I’m the only person who stupidly held out till the end, yet all I got was “I loved you before,” she thought. She felt the world spinning around her, so much so that she even felt like throwing up. Pulling herself together, she took a

of the French window from which one could overlook the forest of high-rise buildings, staring at the sky far away from the glass window with jet-black eyes. After a long

she the one who

“Yes.”

sounded very candid. “That little girl is as stubborn

you release my mom

make things difficult for you as long as you’re willing to go out with Emma and make Elspeth break up with you of her own accord.” The man

a deep breath. “I

had a look of confusion in

just in time. “Elspeth, I’ve got a

bad news could be worse than I am now? Tell

before he was startled for a

want to laugh at

don’t. I just think that the Callum guy

about Callum, though. She came back to

days to pick you up. I told you why; it’s because he wants you

hesitation, “Okay, but he doesn’t have to

didn’t know whether to laugh or frown at her reply. “You’re really

I’m just not afraid of loving or hating anyone. Since he chooses to keep going out with Emma, I won’t care about him anymore. I’ll

into a quiet, faint smile. “There’s no hurry to go back, though. There are many fun places in Waterside, so don’t

Elspeth

it happens, you’ve got a free handsome guy

to turn down his suggestion, but on second thought, what the man said seemed to make sense.

they met up at the

“Why are we here?”

up and down. “I want to see you in a bikini. I’ve never seen you in

instantly. “What the hell are

was just joking. We’ve got to take some intimate pictures to provoke

suggestion. They changed into their respective swimsuits, with Elspeth wearing a pink swimsuit that