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.”

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 palms, but she didn’t feel

they said is true; 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

in front 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 time, he finally dialed a number, saying, “I’ve broken up with

she the one

“Yes.”

but he sounded very candid. “That little girl is as stubborn as a mule. She’d never give up easily unless

you release my mom

I won’t 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

a deep breath. “I got

in the sun, Elspeth had a look of confusion in her eyes. Suddenly, she felt

just in time. “Elspeth, I’ve got a piece of bad news to

tears with tremendous effort, Elspeth smiled in the glaring sun, saying, “What kind of bad news could be worse than I am now? Tell me so that I can laugh at it. As it happens,

breakup, then,” Jordan said before he was startled for

want to

on a frosty note, which was pretty rare. “No, I don’t. I just think that the

talk about Callum, though. She came

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

but he doesn’t have to pick

know whether to laugh or frown at

is called frankness, okay? I’m just not afraid of loving or hating anyone. Since he chooses to keep going out with

though. There are many fun places in Waterside, so

I don’t,” Elspeth

back at Callum for the way he treated you?” Jordan’s voice sounded tempting over the phone. “As it happens, you’ve got a free handsome guy here, who is your future fiancé and is willing to have fun with you. Don’t you want to take the

first, Elspeth wanted to turn down his suggestion, but on second thought, what the man said seemed to make sense. After all, she had suffered so many injustices over the

later, they met up

“Why are we here?”

up and down. “I

“What the

joking. We’ve got to take

They changed into their respective swimsuits, with Elspeth wearing a pink swimsuit that outlined her perfect