Hiding Behind Her Superficiality novel Chapter 309

“I know your skills, Arthur. It’s not bad, but you lag behind me a lot. You’re not the only one who can cure her.” Elspeth didn’t believe Arthur one bit. If he was the only one who could heal her, then what would that make all the other doctors in the world? Useless?

“Hey, I can’t do anything if you don’t believe me, but I’m indeed the only one who knows how to treat her at the moment.” Arthur smiled. “There’s a reason your grandfather asked me to help out.”

Elspeth’s heart sank. She had to say he had a point.

“However, the pacing of the treatment is under my control. I decide when she gets better, if ever.” Arthur approached Elspeth, looking down at her. He then said with a smug smile, “Get on my bad side, and I might just slip during the treatment.”

Elspeth crossed her arms. Proudly, she said, “You fail my mother, and you’ll have the whole Joneson Family after you, not just me. Don’t even try to threaten me.”

Arthur wasn’t intimidated by that threat. Instead, he laughed maniacally. “You think I care? You think I care after all you and Callum did to me?”

“What about Emma, then? Don’t you like her anymore?”

The mention of Emma broke something in Arthur. “You don’t deserve to say her name.”

Elspeth snickered. “Simp. You do her every bidding even though she doesn’t like you, and for what? Nothing. Nothing at all.”

Infuriated and livid, Arthur took a step forward and grabbed Elspeth by her neck. “I said, you don’t deserve to say her name. Slander her once more and I will wipe you off the face of the earth.”

Suffocating, Elspeth coughed and sputtered, her face red. Arthur let her go right away. He was still at the Joneson Residence and hurting Elspeth might mean trouble. Elspeth fell to the ground.

“You go against Emma again, and I will come after you.”

He looked at Elspeth, whose clothes were disheveled, from head to toe, and then he froze. “W-Why do you have that pear blossom mark on your chest?”

“Are you mad?” Elspeth glared at Arthur angrily. She quickly straightened her clothes and was about to stand up, but then Arthur hunkered down and tore her collar open to have a closer look at the birthmark. When Elspeth realized what he was doing, she slapped him. “Are you crazy, Arthur?”