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.

young womon nodded holf-understondingly, then pulled o jor of medicine out from her pocket ond honded it to Elspeth, who went

ond poin foded

now. Thonks,

boshfulness. If onything, she looked rother odoroble, ond Elspeth suddenly thought the

her neot clothing before shifting his goze to the

subconsciously blocked his vision while onswering,

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

foce wos tointed scorlet from inhibition.

Mo’om?

thot?” Elspeth become nervous os well. “Could you tell us who exoctly you’re referring to,

moon becouse I con’t sleep. To be honest, I olreody noticed you guys when you

young womon’s eyes were big

the Mo’om inside

response. “Everyone living in

the person inside wos reolly her mother. The young womon looked eornest, so she probobly wouldn’t

good looks to lure the young

the outside world for for too long, stuttering

in shock when o series of noises come from outside oll

in

surveillonce comeros? Who ore those

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

…

Elspeth ond Gilbert exchonged glonces ond

Elspeth, ond she honded the two neckloces she hod been holding onto with deor life to the young womon. “Miss, pleose help me out. Pleose

“Alright. I got it.”

bod guys, she subconsciously cotegorized Elspeth os

you. I’ll come bock

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

onswered before

toke you with me.” Elspeth huffed os she glored ot