Love's Perfect Match

Jethro didn’t want to wait, so he pleaded with Elspeth like an obedient younger brother. “Elsie, Mr. Winthrop is nice enough to give us a ride, so why shouldn’t we accept his kind gesture?”

Elsie…

Callum’s face grew colder as he repeated the nickname in his head.

Elspeth was startled. For some reason, even though she and Callum were uninvolved in every way, she still felt a trace of awkwardness when Jethro called her Elsie.

To avoid giving Jethro the chance to say anything else that was too suggestive, she agreed.

“Oh, fine. Let’s go.”

So, obliging with the little kid?

Callum looked at them with scrutiny.

The two of them got into Callum’s car while the electric scooter was temporarily abandoned by the side of the road.

Jethro left the key in the ignition and said he was giving it away to anyone who chanced upon it since the Wilstones had more than enough vehicles.

Elspeth was smiling as she remarked sarcastically to herself, It’s obvious that you can’t be bothered to call someone to tow it away.

However, as she was sitting inside Callum’s car right now, she wasn’t in the mood to think about anything else. On the other hand, Jethro seemed eager to stir up trouble as he kept dragging all sorts of things up.

“Elsie, I heard that you were in a relationship with Mr. Winthrop before. Is that true?”

Elspeth’s smile stiffened.

“If you can’t hold your tongue, then keep your mouth shut.”

Callum, who was fully focused on driving, tapped his finger on the steering wheel when he heard the question, but he didn’t respond.

“Well, so what? It’s all in the past, and anyway, Mr. Winthrop has a new fiancée now. I’m sure you have already gotten over the relationship too.”

It was to be expected from someone who only recently became of age. He thought of relationships as something so inconsequential.

Elspeth couldn’t be bothered to waste her breath with him. She turned toward the window instead and just so happened to catch sight of the hotel before it whizzed past her.

there’s a hotel

thin line and his eyes were focused

about the

over to pick us up because he knew there was a hotel here and didn’t want me to

an

been tailing

soon as that thought flashed across her mind, she found

would he spend his time and energy on anyone else, especially

preoccupation with her thoughts. “By the way, why did you show up at a place like that so late at

manner, but it

likes the pear tarts sold in this area so I came over to get

glanced down and saw a box on the front passenger seat that

Elsie, when are you going to agree to go out with me? I’ll definitely treat you just

the flames spread to her when she

retorted curtly before closing

to waste his time on anything, and he rarely changed his lifestyle and

would never allow himself to remain awake past

for Jasmine’s sake, he changed his habit

the pear tarts were on

that’s true

melancholic. She couldn’t explain why she felt upset. Amid her blur of

a jacket that had a familiar bluegrass scent to it. It

was the only other person in the car. He was sitting in the driver’s seat and the car was stopped

the window with her bleary eyes.

didn’t you wake

the jacket and placed it on

only just arrived, so I didn’t

home,” Elspeth said politely. Her tone was even more

If anything like this happens

a heartless prick,

leaving, Callum

to do

position to ask that question, so he hummed

at once to avoid

gaze was dark as he watched Elspeth disappear from sight.

all the hotels along Harmony Street