Sweetheart, Do You Still Love Me

Chapter 307

how beautiful she is. I also need to check on her condition. She stopped the butler from going further. “I’m going in alone. You guys wait for me out here, or you can go back. This place’s security is tight. I can’t run away, so don’t worry.”The butler didn’t like these terms. “But the master said we must follow you all the way.”“You’ll just ruin my reunion. Tell him I’m meeting with Mom alone. If that’s forbidden, then all bets are off.” She was threatening the butler, but Elspeth wouldn’t budge. The determination in her eyes was flaring.Left with no choice, the butler sighed. “Fine. I shall ask the master now.” He and his men left the yard.Elspeth entered the courtyard. The first thing she saw were those white Spanish daggers. She stepped forth and noticed that the path was no longer covered in dead leaves and branches. Instead, it was thoroughly swept. Just when she was about to go deeper, someone stopped her.“What are you doing?”Elspeth turned around. It’s that girl. Elspeth let her guard down around this girl because Elspeth gave her the necklace. She thought the girl could be trusted. “I never got to ask what your name is.”Isabel’s gaze darted around. “Isabel.”“Have you given the necklaces to that person as I asked you to?”Isabel didn’t expect Elspeth to show up again. She panicked, but she wasn’t a good liar, so she stammered, “I-I forgot.”Elspeth shot her a sharp look. She forgot? “Take me to her, and give me my necklaces back.”Panicked, Isabel said, “I thought you were going to get married. Why are you here?”She’s not answering my question? Wait a minute… “You… didn’t give them to her on purpose, did you?”Isabel shook her head violently. “No. I did forget.”“Then you should know where the necklaces are.”Isabel tried to recall where the necklaces were. She remembered hiding them in her clothes, but two days later, they were nowhere to be found. She didn’t mind, thinking that Elspeth would never return anyway, but reality proved otherwise. “I… lost them,” she said honestly. She had no idea where the necklaces were.Elspeth’s heart broke. That was the thing her father left her before he died and a gift from her mother. Losing them hit her hard. “Take me to my mother, then.”Isabel’s heart skipped a beat. “I…”Noticing her anxiety, Elspeth chuckled. “Don’t worry. I won’t come after you. Not going to snitch, either.”Isabel gave her a look of gratitude. “Thank you. I’ll take you to her, then.”Elspeth nodded. She was about to follow Isabel into the house, but then a white silhouette appeared at the top of the staircase.“Elspeth?” There was excitement, sadness, and longing in that voice.Elspeth looked up, and her heart trembled. The woman before her was beautiful, slender, and indeed looked a lot like her. Even though she was already in her forties, the woman looked as beautiful as a young lady in her twenties, though she had a sickly look. She must’ve been sick for a long time. It had been too long since Elspeth saw her. She couldn’t call her “mother” right away, yet something in her heart stirred when she saw her. The blood in her was calling out to this woman, and before she knew what she was