Love's Perfect Match

Love’s Perfect Match Chapter 243

The plaintive sound suddenly stopped soon after Elspeth entered a court, and she was about to turn

and leave when the door behind her suddenly shut tight.Shoot, I’ve been had. Those guys probably

haven’t had enough and quickly devised a plan to subterfuge me, seeing that I’m alone.At that, she

looked toward the coping, intending to climb over the wall. However, it was too high, and she couldn’t

even reach the top.Hence, she wandered around, traversing a corridor and a bridge before arriving at a

massive side court.Elspeth had sensed a depressing atmosphere before even entering the place, but

her curiosity drove her to continue forward. With that, she walked into the place, which was smoke-

filled despite being brightly lit.As she went further in, she found an octogenarian dressed in a cleric’s

robe, lighting candles at the altar.“I don’t mean to intrude, Abbot…”“I’ve been waiting for you for a long

time, child of God.”“Have you been waiting for me?” Elspeth was stumped.“Yes.” The abbot turned

around with a rigorous smile. “The Holy Father guides those who have a predestined relationship with

fate.”Elspeth smiled in response. “Well, technically, I’m an atheist.”Nuance laced the abbot’s face as

the young woman continued, “I was drawn over by a strange noise. I haven’t come looking for you,

Abbot.”Just like that, the smile on the elder’s face stiffened.“But if there’s something you’d like to say,

I’m all ears.”Elspeth smiled so harmlessly that the abbot became rather ill at ease. “Well, you see, it’s

been a long while since I last had visitors, and you’ve shown up out of the blue. It’ll be nice if I can have

someone to talk to…”Well, this isn’t what I was expecting…Elspeth thought he must be some prophetic

saint who would tell her some kind of secret that must not be told if she talked to him. But when she

found the elder smiling somewhat reservedly, she was suddenly baffled.“Are you not going to tell me

some kind of secret?” She looked skeptically at his face.“I am but a simple man, child of God. I know

no prophecies.” The abbot’s eyes curved into crescents as he smiled. “In science, we must trust.”Trust

in science… The head of the abbey is telling me to trust in science…The elder’s words stupefied

Elspeth, and for a moment, she didn’t know what to do.“Okay, if you say so. To be honest, I don’t know

what led me here. Can you tell me how to leave this place?” Elspeth gazed at the strange octogenarian

and thought she should still head out first.At that, a hint of disappointment laced the abbot’s face.

“You’re the first person in many years to enter the Abbot’s Court accurately. Can’t you sit down and

chat with me for a moment?”“But…”“A storm will be coming in an hour. There’s no need to rush,” said

the abbot as he invited Elspeth to take a seat.Helpless, the young woman sat down and pulled her

phone out to call Callum, only for her heart to sink as she realized her phone was dead.“Is your phone

dead, child of God?”Elspeth nodded in response.“Here, allow me. I’ll revive it.”Is it me, or is this

conversation somewhat odd…As baffled as she was, she still handed the elder her phone.“I see affably

in you, child of God. You must be favored by the Holy Father.”“Thank you, Abbot.” Elspeth smiled

courteously.“If my guess is right, you must be a Lynwood, are you not, child of God?”He should know Còntens bel0ngs to Nô(v)elDr/a/ma.Org

my name if he knows my last name, then! “Do you know me, Abbot?”“Of course. I surf the net too.”The

young woman was rendered at a loss for words.“However, you look exceptionally like the woman who

often donated money to our abbey twenty years ago.” The abbot gazed at her like he saw another

person through time.“I’m sorry?”“If my guess is right, she’s probably your mother, Miss Joneson.”“Do

you know my mother?! In that case, do you have other news about her, Abbot?!” Elspeth sprang to her

feet at once.But to her dismay, the abbot shook his head. “I don’t know her situation, child of God.

However, I can tell you that those who are fated to meet will meet again. There’s no reason to

rush.”Was there anything useful in what you just said? Elspeth quirked the corner of her lips and said,

“Well, can you tell me what you know about my mother? Perhaps I can find some clues from it.”Seeing

the expectant look on her face, the abbot knew he couldn’t rain on her parade. “She was a very gentle

woman. She would come and donate money every month for three years. All of us in the abbey came

to know her.”“And then?”“Later on, she held a baby girl in her arms every time she came. She visited

less and less frequently with time, and she disappeared in the end. I assumed she had gotten

busy.”“That’s not it.” Elspeth lowered her head as a hint of sadness flashed across her eyes. “She had

gone missing.”However, the abbot was unruffled. “There’s a reason for everyone and everything. The

Holy Father saith, ‘say nothing’. You will have to find the answer yourself, child of God.”“Is there no

other way?”The abbot paused for a second before answering, “The answer you seek is right under your

nose.”Right under my nose… Elspeth took a deep breath and was struck with a realization.“Thank you,

Abbot. I get it now. Can you show me the way out now?”The abbot sighed in response. “Very well. I’ll

see you out.”With that, Elspeth traversed the complicated route under the abbot’s lead and finally

returned to that tree.After seeing the elder away, she began searching for Callum and found him in a

gazebo not far away.On the other hand, Callum dialed Elspeth’s number multiple times only to receive

the cold, monotonous voice of the answering machine every time. Hence, he strode toward her when

he found her approaching his direction and clasped her shoulders, asking, “Where have you been?! Do

you know how worried I was?!”Elspeth’s heart skipped a beat when she noticed the hint of anxiety

lacing his usually staid face. “I’m sorry, but my phone was dead. When I was walking, someone

suddenly shut the door from behind me. I didn’t know where I was, and it was an abbot who guided me

out of there.”“Someone shut you in?” Callum narrowed his eyes.“Yeah! I thought it was weird too. I

have a feeling that someone’s ambushing us.”“I see.” Callum nodded. “Let’s head down the mountain

now. We still have scenes to shoot at night.”Since they had to shoot the kissing scene at Capolis at

night, Elspeth decided to make a trip to Waeldestone Abbey during the day, but who’d have thought

something like this would happen?!“Well, we’ve already made our wishes anyway. Let’s go.”On the

other hand, Eric heaved a sigh of relief after exiting the washroom, seeing that Elspeth had returned in

one piece. “I thought you had gotten lost. Callum and I have been looking for you everywhere. We

came back and waited here, in an obvious place, worried that you wouldn’t see us after you returned.”