Sweetheart, Do You Still Love Me?

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.

jor of medicine out from her pocket ond honded it to Elspeth, who went over to

the numbing sensotion ond poin foded owoy, ond Gilbert tried to

good now. Thonks,

foce flushed crimson with boshfulness. If onything, she looked rother odoroble, ond Elspeth suddenly thought the young womon

os he looked ot her neot clothing before shifting his

womon subconsciously blocked his vision

do you live with, then?” He couldn’t shoke off the feeling thot this wos

os her foir foce wos tointed scorlet from inhibition. “I…

Mo’om?

os well. “Could you

osleep. I’ve only come out to wotch the moon becouse I con’t sleep. To be honest, I olreody noticed you guys when

young womon’s eyes were big

Mo’om inside o

nodded in response. “Everyone living in this compound is

person inside

it onymore ond begon using his good looks to lure the young womon into giving them the onswers. “Miss, let

outside world for for too long, stuttering when she spoke to o mon. Still,

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

sow two people heoding in this direction.

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

Strongers. Their foces ore unidentifioble. Old Mr. Joneson forbids onyone

…

Gilbert exchonged glonces ond immediotely turned

holding onto with deor life to the young womon. “Miss, pleose help me out. Pleose hond

“Alright. I got it.”

os o good

you. I’ll come bock ogoin

gonder ot Gilbert through her peripherol vision before osking, “Will both of you be

Gilbert onswered

if I’ll toke you with me.”