Love's Perfect Match

Chapter 194

flowers looked extraordinarily hardy.She asked, “Callum, did you steal these from someone else’s backyard?” She sounded disapproving, but inwardly, she loved these flowers very much.Callum darted her an impassive glance. “There are stalls selling things on both sides of the bridge. Weren’t you looking at these just now?”Elspeth looked back and saw there was indeed a flower stall where she had been standing. What was more, she’d been staring blankly in that stall’s direction just now. “Actually, I don’t like… Achoo!” She smiled in embarrassment before emitting a loud sneeze.Before she could finish her sentence, Callum fixed her with a murderous stare. “Are you saying that you like Lenten roses very much?”Coming to her senses, she nodded vigorously. “Yeah, I like them a lot.”Callum frowned when he noticed that she was shivering with cold. “Feeling cold?”Cold? It’s thanks to your tone that the weather turned chilly! Elspeth looked at her clothes—which weren’t really warm enough—before emitting another sneeze. “No, I don’t.”“Then, why are you shivering?” Callum lowered his gaze as he took off his jacket and draped it around her shoulders. “I’ll send you back.”Elspeth gave him a smile of gratitude. “Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Winthrop, but my legs are numb.”Speechless, Callum crouched down and let her get onto his back.Now that she didn’t have to walk by herself, Elspeth suddenly became talkative. “Callum, I’ve heard that a couple can remain together in their old age once they’ve walked together in the snow.”“I don’t know if a couple can remain together in their old age after walking in the snow, but I’m sure they’ll get hospitalized for that.”She was displeased with the man’s unfeeling remark. How unromantic. Theodore was sitting in the living room watching TV when they arrived home by car. Seeing that Elspeth was back, he pretended to leave again, but she stopped him before he could do so. “Mr. Winthrop, may I ask what is going on with you?”Theodore replied with a forced smile, “I’m fine, Elspeth. Don’t think too much about it.”Elspeth… Now he calls me Elspeth instead of Elsie, thought Elspeth. Unable to get the truth out of him, she decided to look into it herself.After she returned to her bedroom, Theodore summoned Callum into his study. No one knew what Theodore had said, but the next day, Callum became somewhat quieter than usual.Seeing that he wasn’t in a good mood, Elspeth asked, “What’s wrong with you?”Callum shook his head. “I gotta go to my office. You should go to Azure Corporation early if there’s nothing else.”“Are you telling me to go to my own company?” Elspeth was astounded. He was just fine yesterday; why is he beginning to distance himself from me today?Callum pressed his lips together without saying a word.A sense of discomfort surged up within Elspeth. “Callum, just tell me if there’s anything.