She sauntered towards him to check on his condition. He lay on the floor like a cowering animal with his eyes shut tightly. His furrowed brows suggested that he was in immense pain, even in his sleep.
Lucinda wasn’t convinced.
“Stop pretending, Nathaniel. Get up,” she demanded.
But he scowled and remained still.
This condition was unnatural. Something was off.
Although the drug she had him inject himself would have initially caused him agony, it had been over an hour already.
Unless…
She reached out to remove his jacket but inadvertently touched his waist.
The man let out a painful groan.
His already furrowed brows deepened even more.
A wound on his waist?
Lucinda noticed this and wanted to remove his shirt to check, but he grabbed her wrist suddenly.
Nathaniel woke up.
Although he was still woozy from the pain, his reflexes kicked in.
“What are you doing?”
Lucinda pulled her hand away from him and asked nonchalantly, “Are you injured?”
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“It’s already healed,” he replied. His tone was just as cold as hers.
Afterwards, the room fell into an awkward silence.
Lucinda simply asked, in case he would drop dead the next second.
It didn’t matter to him if she was really being kind because he didn’t appreciate it anyway.
“You look good enough to get up and move around now so get up and follow me.”
Lucinda then grabbed her bag and pushed the door open without bothering to look back at him.
“Wait, where are we going?”
“If you don’t want to be stranded here or go home by foot, you better follow me,” Lucinda replied sternly.