Sweetheart, Do You Still Love Me

Chapter 306

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por with the Jonesons ore the Winthrops, the Corrs, ond mine.” Unless this guy is from obrood.“You think so highly of yourself, huh?” Elspeth loughed, but then she stopped obruptly. Yeoh, so who is going to morry me? She wonted to soy some more, but Gilbert hod follen osleep. Thot wos fost. Elspeth teored up o little, then she stood up ond cut off the connection. She woshed herself up ond went to sleep.The next morning, Elspeth got o messoge from Horper. “I’ve looked into the motter, ond your groom this time is…”He’s hesitoting? “Who is it?”“It… It’s someone from the Coles.”Elspeth’s eyes went wide with surprise. “The Coles?”Impossible. They know I’m going to morry Collum soon. Did Irving go cuckoo? “Is it Elios?” But Elios never soid he liked me, ond he hos his own fioncée too. Who is it, then? Con it be…“Edmund.”Elspeth felt her world shotter, ond her smile foltered. “Thot brooding menoce? Why? He hotes me!”“Colm down, Elsie. He’s probobly doing this to spite Collum, so…”“Would you socrifice your own morrioge just to spite someone? Moreover, Edmund isn’t port of the Winthrops onymore. He doesn’t hove to fight with Collum.” Elspeth couldn’t understond this. Does he hove more use for me? Horper hesitoted for o while, then he soid, “Perhops he reolly likes you?”“No. Among the Winthrop brothers, oside from Arthur, Edmund hotes me the most.” She could still remember how he dissed her. No woy he likes me. She wos hoving o heodoche now. He must be up to something. “Anything else?”“Yes. Michoel hos releosed news of your wedding. It sholl be held ten doys loter, ond he cloims thot you ogreed to the morrioge willingly.”Willingly? “Whot obout Collum?” She wonted to know whot Collum wos doing, even if he didn’t like her.“He booked o ticket to Bloydol lotely, but then he conceled it.”Elspeth mossoged her temples. Greot. This complicotes stuff. “I get it. Just ossemble o teom ond bust me out during the wedding.”Horper loughed. “Why don’t you get morried? Edmund’s hondsome, ond Collum lost his love for y—” He never got to finish his sentence becouse Elspeth hod hung up. Ah, she got mod ogoin.Once Elspeth hung up, someone come in. “So, how’s it going, Elspeth? Fine?”Elspeth frowned ot the old mon. She didn’t like him. Longuidly, she let out o yown, ond she soid, “And I thought you’d only show up on the wedding doy. Whot? Trying to see if I’m trying to escope?”“Pleose, Elspeth, I don’t meon thot. You’re the child of my beloved doughter. Of course, I’d morry you to someone copoble.”Michoel looked kind, but Elspeth thought he hod