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.”

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

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,

stood upright 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 one

“Yes.”

is as stubborn as a mule. She’d never give up easily unless

you release my mom

things difficult for you as long as you’re willing to go out with Emma and make Elspeth break up with

deep

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

got a piece

back her 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

he was startled for a moment. “Wait a minute. You’ve broken up with

that’s right. You want to laugh at me, don’t

rare. “No, I don’t. I just think that

She came back to the subject,

to pick you up. I told you why;

agreed without hesitation, “Okay, but he doesn’t have to pick me up. I’m going back

frown

hating anyone. Since he chooses to keep going out with Emma, I won’t care about him anymore. I’ll live without

hurry to go back, though. There are

don’t,” Elspeth

over the phone. “As it happens, you’ve got a

what the man said seemed to make sense. After all, she had

met up at the swimming

“Why are we here?”

as he eyed Elspeth up and down. “I want to see you in a bikini. I’ve never

turned pink instantly. “What the hell are you talking

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

Elspeth reluctantly accepted the man’s suggestion. They changed into their respective swimsuits, with Elspeth wearing a pink swimsuit