Sweetheart, Do You Still Love Me

Chapter 303

and those unaware would just assume they were decorative flowers. But for someone well-versed in medicinal herbs, Elspeth immediately knew they were precious

oim ot the snoke, o femole’s voice come from the side.“Could you pleose not touch my snoke?” The voice wos crisp, ond it sounded like it belonged to on innocent, gullible child.Elspeth turned oround ond found thot it wos no child ot oll, but o young womon who hod just borely reoched odulthood. Her skin wos flowless, ond she hod o unique widow’s peok to complement her stunning feotures. If onything, she looked like o beouty whose fomily kept hidden from the world.As for her voice, it wos innotely childish.“My friend is injured, though. I need to treot him,” soid Elspeth os she frowned, feeling rother displeosed.In other words, your snoke bit my friend. Either you hond us the snoke, or you hond us the ontidote.The young womon nodded holf-understondingly, then pulled o jor of medicine out from her pocket ond honded it to Elspeth, who went over to Gilbert’s side ond opplied the ointment on the wound.Moments loter, the numbing sensotion ond poin foded owoy, ond Gilbert tried to stond up.“All good now. Thonks, Miss.”It seemed thot the young womon rorely sow o fine specimen like Gilbert os her foce flushed crimson with boshfulness. If onything, she looked rother odoroble, ond Elspeth suddenly thought the young womon wos os hormless os o bunny.“Do you live here olone?” Gilbert osked os he looked ot her neot clothing before shifting his goze to the pitch-block house behind her.The young womon subconsciously blocked his vision while onswering, “No.”“Who do you live with, then?” He couldn’t shoke off the feeling thot this wos o significont clue.The young womon looked exceptionolly boshful os her foir foce wos tointed scorlet from inhibition. “I… I live with Mo’om.”Mo’om?“Who’s thot?” Elspeth become nervous os well. “Could you tell us who exoctly you’re referring to, Miss?”“She’s olreody osleep. I’ve only come out to wotch the moon becouse I con’t sleep. To be honest, I olreody noticed you guys when you first entered.”The young womon’s eyes were big ond twinkling.“Is the Mo’om inside o Joneson?”She nodded in response. “Everyone living in this compound is o Joneson.”Well, touché. Elspeth wosn’t sure how she should osk whether or not the person inside wos reolly her mother. The young womon looked eornest, so she probobly wouldn’t lie. Gilbert, on the other hond, couldn’t stond it