Chapter 490 Go Get a Divorce

The moment the idea occurred to her, even Elspeth couldn't keep a straight face. Noticing Callum's expression had darkened, she couldn't help but ask, "Are you all right?"

"How can I be all right?" Callum countered as his expression turned thunderous.

If what Helia told them was true, then Elspeth and he might be cousins. The world has gone mad.

"By the way, Elsie, is he your boyfriend?" Helia was overjoyed to reunite with her daughter. She wasn't aware of the situation going on.

Even though Elspeth was having difficulty keeping her emotions from showing on her face, she nodded nevertheless.

"Nice to meet you, young man. What's your name?" At learning the man was her daughter's boyfriend, Helia smiled wildly.

"Nice to meet you too, Miss Joneson. I'm Callum Winthrop."

Her smile froze at his introduction. "Did you say 'Winthrop'?"

"That's right, Miss Joneson. I'm the nephew of the man who assaulted you many years ago."

The smile vanished from her face in an instant.

As Callum said, it was years ago. The ripples in her heart at the moment had nothing to do with the anguish of being assaulted many years ago but with the pain to see Elspeth dating such a man.

Even though Callum wasn't the mastermind of the whole thing, Helia still remembered herself being extremely disgusted by the way the Winthrop Family reacted to it.

She couldn't entrust her daughter to a man born in such a family.

man who assaulted Helia

been together? Which stage of

her gaze to Elspeth's belly. Her daughter

shy and embarrassed at her mother's assumption. "Mom, we haven't reached the home base."

be cousins, you need to break up right now. I

on her tongue as she realized

You don't want to break up,

her head. "It's not about that. I'm just not

and Callum continued to be together at this point, it would only make the situation very absurd.

expression mirrored hers. "But now we have a bigger problem."

than this." Helia tried her best to keep

married."

"What? You're married?"

other. Thus, they could simply break up and no particular harm was done.

they were now husband and wife instead of boyfriend and girlfriend.

divorce!" Helia urged, but the pair remained seated on the couch.

Helia even if she couldn't quite pin her feelings down. "Elspeth, you have to understand that even though the Winthrops hurt me, I would never force my thoughts upon you and hold you back from finding love. However, what worries me is you two may be related by blood. The

right. Helia's words hit a sore spot and Elspeth could taste the bile rising in her throat. "I understand, Mom. I get what you mean."

and you are well aware of what to do.

was genuine about hoping for a better life for Elspeth. Even though she was absent in Elspeth's life before, as

Callum and Elspeth was found out by the others, Helia knew Elspeth would struggle for the

couch, trying to gather her thoughts. After a while, she

couldn't believe the fact that she might be Callum's

didn't let the emotions linger on his face, but she could tell he was stressed. When he noticed the disappointment on her face, he could only give her a weak smile. "I don't

wouldn't be separated right away greatly relieved

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