Love's Perfect Match

Chapter 321

shop for clothes.“Don’t tell me you’re about to spend the whole day going down memory lane, are you?”Edmund shook his head. “That would be too much. I won’t do that.”Too much?In Elspeth’s memories, she and Edmund barely interacted before. Normally, they would only greet each other and exchange a bit of banter if they met.What does he mean by too much?“Edmund, I don’t think we’re particularly close?”His gaze darkened as a reaction to her words.“Actually, I was by your side in a lot of situations. It was just that you weren’t aware.”Elspeth clutched her bag tightly.“What do you mean by this?”“Not much. It’s nothing. Let’s continue walking. Come on, I’ll buy some clothes for you.”With a cold tone, Elspeth replied, “I don’t need more clothes. I have tons of them.”“What does it have to do with whether you’d like more clothes or not? I’m the one paying, anyway. Don’t forget that you’re my girlfriend for today, so whatever I want to do, that’s up to me.”After stating that, Edmund held Elspeth’s hand.Edmund could feel a subtle heat radiating from her palm as well as a bit of moisture.“Are you nervous being with me? You’re all sweaty.”Suddenly, Edmund had a naughty thought, as he rubbed her palm gently.Elspeth, who felt the sensation akin to ants crawling on her skin, took a few steps back in disgust.“I’m saying this now. If you don’t satisfy me today, then don’t think that I’ll be lending you that freight ship.”This made Elspeth sneer. “I won’t agree to any absurd request, so don’t force me.”“Am I this sort of person in your eyes?”Elspeth still maintained an indifferent tone. “I’m not privy to whether you are this kind of character or not. What I know now is I find your current actions repulsive.”“What if I was Callum? Would you find it repulsive if he did this to you?”“This and that are different.”Smiling, Edmund let go of her hand.“Alright, I’ll stop teasing you now. Let’s go.” To stop him from doing anything overboard, Elspeth kept her distance from him by a few steps.“Hey, we are a ‘couple,’ after all. Even if you don’t want to hold hands, at least we can walk side by side?”Edmund stopped and waited for her.“Edmund.” Finally, Elspeth could not hold it in anymore. “I really think that this pretend couple stuff is unnecessary.”A bit dazzled upon seeing how troubled she was over this, Edmund smirked.“This is just something that I’ve always desired.”Elspeth could not understand his intentions.“Since you don’t have any feelings for me, why play this game with me?”Edmund laughed. “Who said that I didn’t like you? I think I started liking you way before Callum.”Disbelief came from Elspeth when she heard this. “Yet, up till now, you’ve never shown any signs of fancying me before?”“Of course, I can’t show it. When I realized my feelings for you, you and Callum were already deeply in love.”That day, he clearly knew he had fallen for Elspeth when she stood up for him and even comforted him patiently. It was the first time he found himself unable to say anything hurtful to her.After stating that, Edmund held Elspeth’s hand.Edmund could feel a subtle heat radiating from her palm as well as a bit of moisture.Yet, in that period, Callum had already stated his love for Elspeth explicitly, and Elspeth reciprocated his feelings. Hence, he thought that he would not act like a clown and fight over her like how Blake had done.Although he did like to challenge Callum, at that point, he knew deep inside that he could never win Elspeth’s love, so he chose to bury his feelings for her.“What do you mean?”“I don’t wish to be with you, nor do I have the preposterous idea of being able to marry you. I just want to be a couple with you for one day to satisfy my desire and end any regrets I might have.”He knew that Elspeth and he couldn’t be together.Standing in the middle of the crowd, they exchanged gazes in silence. Elspeth could see the sadness in his eyes.“Okay, I understand.”Sighing, Elspeth continued, “We were never meant to be.”Even if she was not fully devoted to Callum from the start, she would not like Edmund due to his personality.Since the beginning, the two of them were two parallel lines separated by an