Love's Perfect Match

Chapter 243

and for a moment, she didn’t know what to do.“Okay, if you say so. To be honest, I don’t know what led me here. Can you tell me how to leave this place?” Elspeth gazed at the strange octogenarian and thought she should still head out first.At that, a hint of disappointment laced the abbot’s face. “You’re the first person in many years to enter the Abbot’s Court accurately. Can’t you sit down and chat with me for a moment?”“But…”“A storm will be coming in an hour. There’s no need to rush,” said the abbot as he invited Elspeth to take a seat.Helpless, the young woman sat down and pulled her phone out to call Callum, only for her heart to sink as she realized her phone was dead.“Is your phone dead, child of God?”Elspeth nodded in response.“Here, allow me. I’ll revive it.”Is it me, or is this conversation somewhat odd…As baffled as she was, she still handed the elder her phone.“I see affably in you, child of God. You must be favored by the Holy Father.”“Thank you, Abbot.” Elspeth smiled courteously.“If my guess is right, you must be a Lynwood, are you not, child of God?”He should know my name if he knows my last name, then! “Do you know me, Abbot?”“Of course. I surf the net too.”The young woman was rendered at a loss for words.“However, you look exceptionally like the woman who often donated money to our abbey twenty years ago.” The abbot gazed at her like he saw another person through time.“I’m sorry?”“If my guess is right, she’s probably your mother, Miss Joneson.”“Do you know my mother?! In that case, do you have other news about her, Abbot?!” Elspeth sprang to her feet at once.But to her dismay, the abbot shook his head. “I don’t know her situation, child of God. However, I can tell you that those who are fated to meet will meet again. There’s no reason to rush.”Was there anything useful in what you just said? Elspeth quirked the corner of her lips and said, “Well, can you tell me what you know about my mother? Perhaps I can find some clues from it.”Seeing the expectant look on her face, the abbot knew he couldn’t rain on her parade. “She was a very gentle woman. She would come and donate money every month for three years. All of us in the abbey came to know her.”“And then?”“Later on, she held a baby girl in her arms every time she came. She visited less and less frequently with time, and she disappeared in the end. I assumed she had gotten busy.”“That’s not it.” Elspeth lowered her head as a hint of sadness