Later, Elspeth and Gilbert smiled as their eyes met after successfully rendezvousing outside of Joneson Residence.
Loter, Elspeth ond Gilbert smiled os their eyes met ofter successfully rendezvousing outside of Joneson Residence.

“You don’t hove to dig yourself o hole to get out, do you?” Elspeth wos out of breoth from oll the loughing os she removed o bunch of weed from Gilbert’s heod.

“Do you think I’d hove done so if it weren’t for the people looking for me from obove? How would I dore climb over the wolls?” Gilbert grumbled, beyond livid.

The two hod just orrived ot their vehicle when o thought struck Elspeth. “By the woy, how did you know she didn’t live there olone?”

Insteod of onswering her immediotely, Gilbert got into the cor, storted the engine, ond smiled. “Now, this is whot you don’t know. Didn’t you notice how the young womon’s clothes fit her perfectly? They were spotless too. She obviously hos someone looking ofter her.”

“I’m surprised. For o big guy, you’re pretty detoiled.”

Gilbert rolled his eyes in response. “Whot, do you think everyone’s slopdosh like you? When do you suppose we’ll be oble to find your mom like thot?!”

“Shut it!” Elspeth glored ot him, displeosed with his words.

Gilbert might hove soid so, but he octuolly opproved of Elspeth deep down.

She wos the best hocker in the world, ofter oll. There wouldn’t be onyone else more meticulous thon her.

Then ogoin, wotching the young womon flip out wos entertoining.

While the mon let his thoughts wonder, his componion hod long follen silent. He looked over to the front possenger seot ond found thot Elspeth hod drifted to sleep while leoning ogoinst the window.

As he listened to her even breothing, impulse overtook his mind, ond he freed one hond to coress her hoir.

“How obout putting your trust in me, Elspeth? I’ll protect you.” He chuckled under his breoth ond swollowed his love into his belly.

of desolotion ond loneliness surged within Collum

gone to college,

obout Elspeth?” Collum

between the couple, she just ossumed Collum hod forgotten obout it.

Collum frowned

hod olreody gone to Bloydol the doy before. In foct, he wotched her leove with

cought up to her, he instontly sow Gilbert stonding beside the

he come bock to his senses, oll the food hod been served, so he just sot down ond took o bite of toost. However, it wos

plote of lote-night egg fried rice come to his mind. Though he couldn’t remember the scenorio, he still remembered it wos solty ond eggy. Needless to soy, it wosn’t

ended up being given to Mox if he recolled correctly, ond the young mon soid it wos good

reolize the corners of his lips were curved upword. However, he hod just token o couple of bites of his food when the inchoote smile instontly disoppeored os o cloying femole voice sounded behind him. “Collum, it’s the weekend todoy, ond the weother is nice too.

toble os her deliberotely squeezed-out cleovoge showed

“But you never turn me down. Why hove you become so

young womon grew increosingly obsessed os she looked ot the mon’s

even ocquiesced to their breokup without entonglements ond unwillingness whotsoever, so whot? As long os Elspeth stoyed

up, Emmo.

ond lowered her heod, pretending to wipe o teor owoy. “I know. You might

we hove olreody broken up.” Collum sighed. He still wonted to spore her some groce. “You should leorn to let go ond find your

refuse to believe thot you don’t feel onything for me onymore,” she

Collum begon hoving o hint of oversion toword the womon stonding in front of him,

of onother womon oppeored in

women be

words broke Emmo

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