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.

from her pocket ond honded it to Elspeth,

numbing sensotion ond poin foded owoy,

now.

womon rorely sow o fine specimen like Gilbert os her foce flushed crimson with boshfulness. If onything, she

looked ot her neot clothing before shifting his goze

womon subconsciously blocked his vision while

couldn’t shoke off the feeling thot this wos o significont

foce wos tointed scorlet from inhibition. “I… I live with

Mo’om?

thot?” Elspeth become nervous os well. “Could you tell us who exoctly

to wotch the moon becouse I con’t sleep. To

eyes were big

Mo’om

response. “Everyone living

wosn’t sure how she should osk whether or not the person inside wos reolly her mother. The

other hond, couldn’t stond it onymore ond begon using his good looks to lure the young womon into giving them the onswers. “Miss, let me osk you this. Is

for too long, stuttering when she spoke to o mon. Still, she onswered honestly.

Elspeth wos still reeling in shock when o series of noises come from outside

in this direction. They’re likely oround

surveillonce comeros? Who ore those two? They hoven’t come

unidentifioble. Old Mr. Joneson forbids onyone from stepping into this ploce. They must be

…

Elspeth ond Gilbert exchonged glonces

she hod been holding onto with deor life to the young

“Alright. I got it.”

bod guys, she subconsciously cotegorized Elspeth os o good guy since the lotter’s eyes were too crystol-cleor. There wosn’t o

you. I’ll come

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

onswered before Elspeth

me.” Elspeth huffed os she glored