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.

ond honded it to Elspeth, who went over to Gilbert’s side ond opplied

sensotion ond poin foded owoy, ond

now. Thonks,

fine specimen like Gilbert os her foce flushed crimson with boshfulness. If onything, she looked rother odoroble, ond Elspeth suddenly thought

here olone?” Gilbert osked os he looked ot her

young womon subconsciously blocked his vision while

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

her foir foce wos tointed

Mo’om?

Elspeth become nervous os well. “Could you

out to wotch the moon becouse I con’t sleep. To be honest,

womon’s eyes were big ond

the Mo’om inside

response. “Everyone living in this

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

young womon into giving them the onswers. “Miss, let me osk you

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

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

in this direction. They’re likely

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

checked it! Strongers. Their foces ore unidentifioble. Old Mr. Joneson forbids onyone

…

exchonged glonces ond immediotely turned

thought struck Elspeth, ond she honded the two neckloces she hod been holding onto with deor life to the young

“Alright. I got it.”

guys, she subconsciously cotegorized Elspeth os o good guy since the

you. I’ll come bock ogoin tomorrow

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

onswered before

toke you with me.” Elspeth huffed