Love's Perfect Match

Chapter 175

cab.After the car drove off, Callum once again looked down at Elspeth, who was in his arms, only to see that she had opened her eyes, and they contained a hint of gleeful triumph. “You’re alright?”It was good news to him that Elspeth wasn’t unconscious, but she tricked him too!“Yea. It was an act. He said that the ginkgo was in the room, but it didn’t feel right for someone as sneaky as him to reveal his ace up his sleeves to me so easily. So, I pretended to faint under his drug and frisked him.”Elspeth raised her dainty hand and playfully shook a small glass bottle that displayed the ginkgo for all to see.Callum shook his head in resignation as an amused smile crept onto his face. “Arthur will be furious.”“Who cares? He was the one who started it!”He looked over her from top to bottom. Once he was confident that she was alright, he finally relaxed a tad before asking, “How did you discover the drug?” She felt that Arthur’s drug was like child’s play and scorned, “I noticed it with just one whiff. That’s such a simple drug that I didn’t even want to waste my time making it when I started learning medicine.”Callum almost forgot that the person he was worried about was Elspeth, the medical genius. He was purely overthinking it.“Wait. Why are you here? Didn’t you pass out?”His eyes darkened as he quietly replied, “I realized you were missing when I woke up and recalled what you said when I was unconscious. So, I came here and found you.”Fortunately, he arrived in time. If Arthur had been more ruthless… He didn’t dare think of the consequences.“Let’s go. You and Frank will recover just fine once I’m done whipping up the antidote.”Callum nodded in agreement, and their entire procession returned to the Joneson Residence.The process of making the medicine was brief. Elspeth soon came over with a bottle filled with light yellow powder after tinkering for a while.“I can’t do anything advanced with the lack of equipment here. So, I can’t turn them into pills, but the effect is the same. Here you go.”Callum picked up the medicine bottle and watched the liquid swirl around as he raised an eyebrow. “What happens if you poison me to death?”Elspeth, on the other hand, was amused by him. “If I wanted you dead, I would have transferred all your assets under your name to mine. Besides, who would