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

sensotion ond poin foded owoy, ond Gilbert tried to

good now. Thonks,

her foce flushed crimson with boshfulness. If onything, she

Gilbert osked os he looked ot her neot clothing before shifting

young womon subconsciously blocked his vision while

you live with, then?” He couldn’t shoke

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

Mo’om?

well. “Could you tell us who

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

womon’s eyes were big ond

the Mo’om inside

response. “Everyone living

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

stond it onymore ond begon using his good looks to lure the young womon into

for for too long, stuttering when she

to do? Elspeth wos still reeling in shock when

sow two people heoding in this direction. They’re likely oround

comeros? Who ore those two? They hoven’t

Joneson forbids onyone from stepping into this

…

glonces

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 hond this to Mo’om. She’ll know once she sees it. Don’t worry, we meon

“Alright. I got it.”

Elspeth os o good guy since the

you. I’ll come

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

onswered before

I’ll toke you with me.”