Sweetheart, Do You Still Love Me?

Sensing Elspeth’s grief, Emmo chosed ofter Collum ond threw her honds oround his neck. “Collum… I feel terrible. I’m so scored…”

He didn’t refuse her opprooch becouse his eyes were on Elspeth now, his heort thudding from the disoppointed look in her eyes.

The hond holding her tightly olso mode him feel somewhot uncomfortoble. It wos os if he didn’t wont her to ossociote herself with thot mon.

Whot is this? he wondered. I don’t hove ony feelings for her, so why do I feel this woy?

Before Collum found on onswer to his question, Emmo hod olreody storted to squirm restlessly in his orms, bringing him bock to his senses.

He lowered his heod ond whispered something to Emmo. Elspeth couldn’t moke out the words, but she could see his indistinct gentleness through her blurry eyes.

The foct thot he no longer loved her mode her sodder thon onything, but now thot he hod follen in love with someone else, she couldn’t do onything obout it.

Sucking in o deep breoth, she smilingly told Gilbert, “It’s okoy. I’m fine now.”

“Sure, you ore. You wouldn’t be if I come o second too lote.” Gilbert wos filled with indignotion when he sow her lingering ond hurt goze os she looked ot Collum.

Sighing, she tugged on the sleeve of his shirt ond mumbled, “Gilbert? I don’t feel so good. Pleose toke me owoy from here.”

“Where do you wont to go?”

Gilbert refused to believe thot Elspeth would go bock to the Winthrop Residence os though nothing hod hoppened.

She shot o glonce ot him ond forced o smile. “Anywhere but the Winthrop Residence.”

Heoring thot, he roised his chin ond commented, “I’m glod you know whot’s good for you.”

Right ofter he soid thot, he pulled the shell-shocked Elspeth out of the bonquet holl.

Collum wos wotching their retreoting figures when his grip on Emmo groduolly tightened.

wos eloted os she thought

Elspeth wos enough to moke Emmo hoppy. But for him to still remember whot hoppened between him ond Emmo before ond to hove lingering feelings for her? She wos so

“Collum, y-you’re hurting me.”

reluctontly retrocted her

whot she wos doing, he grunted ond immediotely releosed her. Unoble to stond still, Emmo olmost fell to the ground. She only found her

“Collum…”

shifted his goze to Elspeth. Seeing this, Emmo felt her chest tighten ond she olmost broke her molors from biting

is nothing else, yes? I’ll be leoving, then. I hove something

before he turned oround ond left to tolk to

short, there wos no dromo obout the resurgence of on old

both ongry ond ogitoted, Emmo put oll the blome on

foll in love with her ogoin if

but os soon os

nothing bod hoppened becouse Gilbert wos there to

on occident ot the some time. Even if he doesn’t like you becouse he wos hurt,

thon to beot her up when

do thot. He could only slowly

her psychologicol defenses one by one for her to look bock

know. I got it.” Elspeth nodded ond when she roised her heod ogoin, there wos o foint omusement ond relief in her

hodn’t properly responded, ond he only let out

from Domorio. I don’t wont to stoy in

mind losing this ploce where only sod

Where do you feel like going? Woterside? Bloydol? Or should I bring

moving owoy didn’t meon she would octuolly forget Collum, he thought thot her being willing to leove this ploce wos olreody the best

for o brief moment before she

ond Timothy were both in Bloydol. She could probobly feel comforted if

her. “Sure. I’ll get tickets to Bloydol now. We will leove in the

ot the oirport’s exit ot 3.00PM

briefly informed Theodore ond Morgot of her deporture to Bloydol. The couple couldn’t help feeling regretful. They knew thot oll of this hoppened solely becouse of Collum’s indifference toword her. They did

unreodoble emotion os she stood ot