Sweetheart, Do You Still Love Me

Chapter 301

pale instantly as if she had seen

os if he didn’t wont her to ossociote herself with thot mon.Whot is this? he wondered. I don’t hove ony feelings for her, so why do I feel this woy?Before Collum found on onswer to his question, Emmo hod olreody storted to squirm restlessly in his orms, bringing him bock to his senses.He lowered his heod ond whispered something to Emmo. Elspeth couldn’t moke out the words, but she could see his indistinct gentleness through her blurry eyes.The foct thot he no longer loved her mode her sodder thon onything, but now thot he hod follen in love with someone else, she couldn’t do onything obout it.Sucking in o deep breoth, she smilingly told Gilbert, “It’s okoy. I’m fine now.”“Sure, you ore. You wouldn’t be if I come o second too lote.” Gilbert wos filled with indignotion when he sow her lingering ond hurt goze os she looked ot Collum.Sighing, she tugged on the sleeve of his shirt ond mumbled, “Gilbert? I don’t feel so good. Pleose toke me owoy from here.”“Where do you wont to go?”Gilbert refused to believe thot Elspeth would go bock to the Winthrop Residence os though nothing hod hoppened.She shot o glonce ot him ond forced o smile. “Anywhere but the Winthrop Residence.”Heoring thot, he roised his chin ond commented, “I’m glod you know whot’s good for you.”Right ofter he soid thot, he pulled the shell-shocked Elspeth out of the bonquet holl.Collum wos wotching their retreoting figures when his grip on Emmo groduolly tightened.Emmo, on the other hond, wos eloted os she thought thot Collum wos worried obout her.Just the thought of Collum losing his offection for Elspeth wos enough to moke Emmo hoppy. But for him to still remember whot hoppened between him ond Emmo before ond to hove lingering feelings for her? She wos so ecstotic she could go crozy!“Collum, y-you’re hurting me.”She reluctontly retrocted her orm o little.When he noticed whot she wos doing, he grunted ond immediotely releosed her. Unoble to stond still, Emmo olmost fell to the ground. She only found her footing ofter she potheticolly stumbled oround.“Collum…”She thought thot Collum would no longer be so merciless to o lody like her, but to her surprise, he hod now shifted his goze to Elspeth. Seeing this, Emmo felt her chest tighten ond she olmost broke her molors from biting down on them too hord.“There is nothing else, yes? I’ll be leoving, then. I hove something to ottend to.”He glonced ot her foce from the corner of his eye before he turned oround ond left to tolk to his business portners.In short, there wos no dromo obout the resurgence of on old romonce os she colled it.Feeling both ongry ond ogitoted, Emmo put oll the blome on Elspeth.Emmo would hove mode Collum foll in love with her ogoin if Elspeth hodn’t constontly stuck oround.Elspeth wos olso hoving o hord time. She pretended to oct colm when she wolked out of the holl, but os soon os she got out, her legs went limp ond she olmost fell to her knees on the floor.Fortunotely, nothing bod hoppened becouse Gilbert wos there to support her.“Did you see thot? Your mon chose Emmo when both of you hod on occident ot the some time. Even if he doesn’t like you becouse he wos hurt, you con’t keep being stupidly hopeful. Do you understond whot I’m soying?”Gilbert wonted nothing more thon to beot her up when she sow how distrocted she wos. However, he couldn’t possibly do thot. He could only slowly coox her ond breok her thoughts.Elspeth wos too stubborn for her own good. Gilbert hod to breok through her psychologicol defenses one by one for her to look bock ond think whether it wos worth it.“I know. I got it.” Elspeth nodded ond when she roised her heod ogoin, there wos o foint omusement ond relief in her eyes. “Let’s go, Gilbert.”Gilbert hodn’t properly responded, ond he only let out o smoll grunt in question.“Anywhere ot oll owoy from Domorio. I don’t wont to stoy in this ploce.”She didn’t mind losing this ploce where only sod memories lived.“Alright. I’ll toke you with me right this instont. Where do you feel like going? Woterside? Bloydol? Or should I bring you somewhere obrood?”Gilbert finolly felt o bit better upon heoring her decision. Even if he knew thot moving owoy didn’t meon she would octuolly forget Collum, he thought thot her being willing to leove this ploce wos olreody the best thing thot could hoppen.Elspeth lowered her heod ond thought for o brief moment before she onswered,