Love's Perfect Match

Chapter 225

and comforted her in a soft voice, “I know that you are worried about my father, but you have worked too hard, Elspeth. You are always thinking about this and that every day. I think you should start to think about yourself.”“What do you mean?”He pulled Elspeth into his arms and rested his chin on her forehead. “Our couple’s lovey-dovey time, of course! Don’t you agree, Mrs. Winthrop?”He’s doing it again! Feeling flushed and worked up, she felt like a cooked prawn.She couldn’t understand how a man who had never dated anyone was so skilled at flirting and teasing.“Callum, you pretend to be indifferent, but you’re actually a surprise package, aren’t you?”This was a term that Callum had never heard of.After pausing for a moment, he asked in return, “What’s a ‘surprise package’?”Elspeth held her forehead in resignation. “Pretend I never said that,” she muttered.“Say it!” He held her wrists in a tight grip. “Tell me, what does a ‘surprise package’ mean?”It didn’t sound like a compliment to him.Finding it hard to say it, she shook her head and blushed. “I don’t know. I was just guessing.”Callum pursed his lips and the next second…Elspeth felt like hiding in a hole when he found the meaning on Google.He read out loud, “A ‘surprise package’ generally refers to people who are quiet on the outside and passionate on the inside. ‘Surprise packages’ don’t easily express and show their emotions and emotional changes, but they would perform in unexpected ways in specific occasions or environments.” After that, he glanced at Elspeth with intrigued eyes. “Oh, so you think I’m ‘passionate on the inside’ and I ‘perform in unexpected ways’.”Hearing him say the word ‘passionate’ immediately made her turn red in the face.“That’s not what I mean…”She struggled to get out