Love's Perfect Match

Love’s Perfect Match Chapter 206

“Can’t you two use some creative positioning instead?” Elspeth asked in puzzlement.Yelena rolled her

eyes. “I wish we could, but Blake wouldn’t do it no matter what, saying he would easily reject me if we

got too close.”Blake is so chaste, huh… Wait a minute, is he really that chaste? Elspeth suddenly

recalled the warm and passionate kiss Blake had planted on her forehead at his concert last time,

which surprised her inwardly.Yelena blinked her eyes with a groveling expression. “Elspeth, can you

help me talk him into doing it? You and Blake are close, after all.”“I got it. I’ll go to him in a

moment.”Keeping her promise, Elspeth went to Blake shortly after that.Blake was sitting by the lake to

keep his mind off things. When he saw Elspeth come over, his face turned red. “What’s the matter?”“I

heard you’re gonna do a kissing scene with Yelena?”Blake nodded. “Yeah, but I don’t feel like doing

it.”Elspeth didn’t know how to persuade the man into doing it either. After all, anyone would feel

nervous and ill at ease at having to kiss a stranger whom they didn’t know very well. She said, “Blake,

such a day will come sooner or later. You’re an actor, you know.”Blake hung his head. “But I don’t feel

like doing it for the time being.” He still had a complex that he had yet to overcome. The smiling young

lady with wavy hair was still standing in his memory, making him unable to make up his mind no matter

what.“Can you tell me the reason for that?”Blake stared at Elspeth’s face. His lips parted, and he

almost blurted out what was on his mind; he wanted to tell her the truth. However, before he could say

anything, Timothy suddenly ran toward them in a great hurry. Seeing that both of them were present,

he heaved a sigh of relief, but he still sounded anxious. “Bad news, Elspeth! Someone just came down

with food poisoning!”“What?!” Elspeth’s brows furrowed at once.Timothy took Elspeth and Blake to the

scene of the incident.Elspeth glanced at the floor, the person lying on which was an actress playing a

relatively important supporting role whose part in the show was almost as big as that of the lead

supporting actress.Seeing that Yelena was safe and sound despite her pale face, Elspeth was glad that

she didn’t get poisoned.The next second, however, what Yelena said instantly left her with her heart in

her mouth. “Elspeth, I really have no idea what happened. She took a bite of my snack and suddenly

collapsed to the floor. They say that she got poisoned and that I poisoned her on purpose for fear that

she’d upstage me, but I-I didn’t…”Elspeth knew Yelena’s character; she wasn’t jealous of anyone, nor

would she poison anyone on a whim. From her explanation, it sounded like she had just taken a snack

out of her bag and was about to eat it when the female costar came over and took a bite of it. The next

instant, the female costar felt unwell and passed out soon afterward with her lips turning black and her

face turning pale as if she had been poisoned.Aiden was standing aside while looking all worried.

“What should we do now? Don’t tell me the filming has to be postponed again after all the trouble it

took to get it started?” The second supporting actress has to be hospitalized for food poisoning, with

the lead actress being the prime suspect at the moment. If word gets out about this, I can forget about

filming the show!Soon afterward, the cops arrived and took Yelena away immediately.Seeing Yelena’s

tearful eyes, Elspeth eventually couldn’t bring herself to leave her alone, so she followed her to the

police station.Naturally, Blake insisted on tagging along out of his concern for Elspeth.Before leaving

the filming set, Elspeth turned to look at Timothy and whispered, “Help me check the surveillance

footage.”Timothy’s eyes flickered slightly. “Roger that.”Elspeth followed Yelena to the police station to

get their statements recorded. Looking at her gorgeous face, the cop couldn’t bring himself to say

anything that would put her on the spot, so he began to interrogate Yelena instead. “Since you say you

didn’t do it on purpose, do you have any evidence to back that up?” Yelena shook her head. “I don’t

know. Perhaps the snack got poison in it, but I really didn’t poison the snack. I wanted to eat the snack

at first.”The cop frowned. “Such an explanation isn’t convincing enough.”Seeing how Yelena turned

pale as though she were about to burst into tears in fright, Elspeth chimed in, “I have something to say,

sir.”“Shoot.”“I suspect that she was set up by someone.”The cop became interested at once. “Why do

you say that?”Elspeth explained, “First of all, if Yelena were intent on poisoning that lady, she wouldn’t

have waited for that lady to come to her of her own accord. Instead, she would bring the snack to that

lady. If it were someone other than that lady who asked Yelena for the snack, she would end up

poisoning that person without knowing. No clever person would do this.”The cop nodded thoughtfully.

“What you say does make sense.”Elspeth continued, “Secondly, that lady is pretty, but she’s far less

pretty compared to Yelena. Yelena has a pretty good reputation on the filming set, so you can get

someone to ask around about it. There’s no way she would hurt anyone out of jealousy.”A faint smile

played on the cop’s lips after he listened to Elspeth’s explanation. “Miss Lynwood, there’s nothing

wrong with your explanation, but I’d still like to say that you’ve got no evidence to back it up.”Elspeth

clenched her fists. “I know I have no proof of it. I’ll do my best to find proof of it, but I hope you can

refrain from holding Yelena in custody before that.”The cop was surprised. “But this is against the

rules.”Elspeth argued, “Yelena is a public figure. If people learn that she’s been held at the police This belongs © NôvelDra/ma.Org.

station, it’ll greatly affect her career as an actress.”“That’s none of our business.”The cop admired

Elspeth’s gift of the gab, but he insisted on playing it by the book and wouldn’t listen to her at all.Blake’s

face was grim as he sat beside them. “What’s the matter? Don’t tell me that the Winthrops have no say

in this anymore?”“Mr. Winthrop, we’re just judging the case as it stands. And besides, the Winthrop

Family’s influence doesn’t extend into the police department.”Naturally, the cop knew who Blake was.

Even so, seeing the man’s surly expression, he merely smiled without attempting to grovel at him. If it

were Blake who had been taken into custody, he would consider releasing the man. After all, nobody

would want to offend the Winthrops. Yelena Sullivan, huh? Never mind about her.Just when the three

were burning with anxiety, a voice suddenly rang in the police station. “What about the Carrs? Do the

Carrs have a say in this?” Jordan came in with a smile that didn’t reach his eyes.Seeing that Jordan

had arrived, Elspeth asked, “Why are you here?”“I heard about what happened from the crew

members, of course. I invested in the screenplay, so I have to voice my concern about it, no?”Those in

the police station turned pale instantly. They could brush off the Winthrops, who had been merely a

bunch of businessmen, but the Carrs had served in the military for generations and happened to have

great power over the army. “The Carrs do have a say in this, of course. What brings you here, Mr.

Carr?”Elspeth was inwardly revolted by the look on the cops’ faces.Jordan let out a soft chuckle. “I

invested in a TV show, but the show’s lead actress is being held at the police station. Say…”Slick as he

was, the cop was immediately all smiles upon hearing this. “We’ll release her right away!” After all, who

wouldn’t do the Carrs the favor?It wasn’t until she had left the police station that Yelena thanked Jordan

as if awakening from her daydream. “Thank you, Mr. Carr.”Jordan threw a meaningful look at Elspeth

before letting out a soft chuckle. “You should thank Elspeth instead.”