Lowering his head, Sonny asked, “Miss Lucinda, what’s the matter?”
Looking at the shirt in her hands, Lucinda choked back her sobs and asked, “Did you meet people from the Secret Investigation Department the day you went to the abandoned construction site? Did Nathaniel suffer a serious injury?”
Sonny didn’t answer.
“Tell me the truth. It won’t change the result, but I deserve to know. I need to know.”
Sonny sighed.
“We didn’t meet anyone from the Secret Investigation Department. He didn’t want you to worry, so he lied. But he was indeed seriously injured.”
Lucinda frowned.
“How did he get hurt?”
“Well…”
Sonny wiped the tears from his eyes before continuing.
“The truth is that he is the captain of the 14th Department of the National Security Bureau. He was supposed to be dispatched for an emergency operation that day, under orders that were only issued when something of the utmost importance is involved. But he didn’t want to leave without saying goodbye. He wanted to do one last thing for you, and he asked his superiors to postpone his assignment for three days.
He was punished for disobeying his command, hence, his injuries.”
The strife within his family was at its worst, and Nathaniel was in danger of losing his foothold and position at any given time.
Still, he had chosen punishment in order to stay by her side.
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“He would have been whipped 3@ times,” Sonny said.
“But in the end, the higher-ups took pity on him, and he only got 20 lashes. It was so bad that boss ended up coughing out blood.”
Lucinda stared at the bloodstained shirt in her hands, more confused than ever.
“But if it’s just a whiplashing… How come he was so badly injured to the point that he even coughed up blood?”
“It was no ordinary whip, Miss Lucinda. They used a barbed whip made of twisted golden threads. It also has countless little thorns.
What’s more, they never hold back their strength. Each lash is given at full force. Because of his back injury, there was very little area for them to whip, so they decided to move down to his waist…”
Sonny choked on his words, overcome with that familiar wave of outrage and sorrow.
Lucinda couldn’t even bring herself to imagine it. She could almost feel Nathaniel’s pain as she listened to Sonny’s narrative.
Nathaniel had already been injured at the time. How could he have borne such a heavy punishment on top of his existing wounds?
It was no wonder he had run into an accident. He was in a terrible shape, but he had insisted on setting out on a mission for her sake.