Sweetheart, Do You Still Love Me?

Chapter 323

"You misheard that." Elspeth tried to gloss it over.

"If you don’t wanna tell me, fine. I will stop here." Edmund was unusually agreeable today, which she found relief.

"Do you think that we’re gonna die here?"

His assumption irritated her. "Why would that happen when I’m here?"

"So. you mean that you're gonna protect me?" A triumphant smile appeared across liis lips.

"Cut it out." Elspeth could punch him at any time.

While they were in a middle of a small dispute, someone kept watching them in silence. Elspeth, who sensed the scorching gaze, turned her head to see Isabel.

Isabel stared at Elspeth in disbelief. "Y-You're alive?"

That put Elspeth in a slightly awkward position. She did not tell anyone about her faked death, so she did not know what to say when someone recognized her. "Yup. I'm still alive, but—"

Isabel soon wrapped her head around it. "So, Miss Joneson is with you. right?"

Elspeth nodded under Isabel's confused gaze. "Yes, she is."

Isabel let out a bitter smile. "I was worried that her condition got worse when Dr. Winthrop said she will be leaving the country for treatment. It's a relief to know that she's with you."

the disappointment, she had no choice but to accept reality. After

a guess from Isabel's weary expression.

crowd drowned Elspeth's voice, so Isabel could not hear her clearly. When Isabel took a few steps closer to her to continue the conversation, a

to fall upon Elspeth. It happened so quickly that no one

fate of demise, someone shoved her away. Panicked, she raised

with clotlies to move the wood away from

the fire was devouring the girl, Edmund and the others rolled up

wood away in the end. Elspeth hurriedly pulled Isabel out. Fortunately, they reacted in time and so the fire did not bum her neck and face. Even so, her clothes were slightly smoldered, and her skin suffered some

anxious, for she had not expected

as her cheek hurt when she tided to put

comforted Isabel. "Don't wony. I'll take you to the hospital. I'll make sure that it won't leave a scar on your face. You

body drooped onto the floor due to her wobbly legs.

hospital right now." Elspeth pointed at

madam." He earned Isabel and bulldozed through

water gun or fire extinguisher to make way. If you don't wanna die here, follow me." Elspeth took the lead. Everyone made up their mind

to Elspeth, everyone managed to escape the fire. Aside from a few people

ending for such

Elspeth ordered the sect members to leave the scene

you gonna do next?" Edmund threw the women's singlet aside and lifted

at the hospital." Elspeth's mind was a mess because Isabel's act kept replaying in her head.

request at the back of liis mind. "I'm