“Just what?”
Aurelio remembered that the girl had been burned with a branding iron mark just below her collarbone and said with a slight frown, “It’s just that she’s been burned with a branding iron on the left side of her chest and that skin is necrotic, so if you want to avoid scarring, you’ll have to wait for that wound to heal before doing any other treatment.”
“Branding iron?”
The murderous intent under Eduardo Tercero’s eyes rose in all directions.
They had the audacity to treat her with a branding iron, and at that moment Eduardo Tercero only knew that she had been whipped and bruised all over, not noticing the branding iron mark on her left breast because she was covered in blood.
Aurelio pursed his lips, “This time it was too much on the President’s part, I had heard of Erasmo Rolan’s dungeon, but I never thought that Erasmo Rolan would allow his men to treat a girl with such a vicious hot iron. But Your Highness, this girl is really stubborn, this kind of torture, even if it were me, I probably would have confessed long ago.”
When the medical mission had left, Soledad went upstairs and said, “President Eduardo, the red date and lotus seed soup is ready, shall I take it upstairs now to Miss Claudio?”
Eduardo Tercero stood in the doorway, his dark eyes looked deeply at the woman who was still asleep on the bed, and ordered in a low voice, “Let her sleep a little longer.”
“Yes, President Eduardo.”
After Soledad had gone downstairs, Eduardo Tercero, whose gaze had settled on the sleeping woman in the bed, asked old K, “Have the two guards been taken care of?”
“They have been thrown into the dark room, they will not be allowed to die immediately, they will be kept alive for more days.”
Edward the Third emitted a faint “hmm” without a trace of emotion and asked, “Go ask who used the iron on Claudius. ”
“Good, now I will send someone to interrogate the two prison guards.”
Edward the Third did not feel much like getting into these matters at the moment and instructed, “Come down.”
“Yes, Master of the Court.”
It was only after old K had left that Eduardo Tercero entered the bedroom and sat on the edge of the bed, looking deep and soft as he gazed at the woman in the bed.
Eduardo Tercero reached up and Almira touched the purplish bruise at the corner of her mouth, her eyes moving down to the slightly open and loose pajamas and the iron branding mark faintly visible under her left collarbone.
Eduardo TerceroAlmira opened the collar and looked at the iron mark, her pupils constricted.
Although the wound had been medicated, the branding iron mark was still horrible, the scar was effectively half the size of a hand. All other whip marks fade with time, but this piece of burned skin would not heal without surgery.
Eduardo Tercero’s eyes grew colder and colder as he looked at the red-hot iron wound.
She had been tortured for two days and nights, in deep water, unbeknownst to him.
If he had returned a day later, he might have seen her corpse.
The palm of his hand, unconsciously touching her face, Almira rubbed it, with innumerable precautions, as if he were afraid of hurting her, as if he were taking care of a porcelain person.
Eduardo Tercero did not know how long he had been watching her, how long he had been watching her, before Claudio Belles slowly woke up.
When she woke up, the painful cells in her body were awakened again by the sensation of knowing, and the pain made her frown, along with her whole pretty face.
“If it’s too painful, I’ll have them add painkillers.”
Eduardo Tercero said as he helped her up.
Claudio Belles leaned back on the fluffy pillows, half sitting up and looking at Eduardo Tercero, shook his head and said, “Now it doesn’t hurt as much as it used to.”
Painkillers aren’t good either, and if you develop a tolerance to them, they will be less effective if you later get a gunshot wound or something.
“President Eduardo, I’m hungry.”
Eating is the quickest way to regain energy.
Soledad took out the red date and lotus seed soup she had just cooked and Eduardo Tercero brought it over to her and fed it himself.
“President Eduardo I can eat by myself.”
Eduardo Tercero was not going to be denied, “If you are hurt like this, you are a patient.”
“…”
A spoonful of red date and lotus seed soup was spooned into Claudio Belles’ mouth and Eduardo Tercero looked at her, his thin lips exhaled three words, “Good girl, open your mouth.”
Claudio Belles: “…”
“Don’t you like this?”
Claudio Belles was long, and a faint scarlet rose to his weak and miserable little face, “… hot.”
Edward the Third picked up the spoon again, brought it to his thin lips, Almira blew on it and brought it to his lips again, “Now you can eat.”
A certain unruly little fox, for the first time, behaved like a lamb, meek and sickly, dropping his long eyelashes and opening his mouth to take a bite.
Edward the Third looked at his obedience with satisfaction and his thin lips curved slightly.
A bowl of lotus seed soup soon reached the bottom.
“Anything else you want to eat, I’ll have Soledad prepare it for you.”
Claudio Belles licked his dry, chapped lips and said, “I’d like to eat pasta with vegetables and eggs.”
Eduardo Tercero probably didn’t expect her to say something as simple as noodles with vegetables and eggs and froze for a few seconds.
Claudio Belles saw that Eduardo Tercero didn’t say anything and assumed it was a no: “You can’t eat it?”.
“Okay.” Eduardo Tercero reached up and rubbed his hair.
In about ten minutes, Claudio Belles was served a steaming bowl of egg noodles with vegetables.
“President Eduardo, this time I want to eat alone.”
Eduardo Tercero did not insist and just watched her eat from her bowl. She was not as showy as the other girls and ate quickly, but not vulgarly either, making a humming sound as she ate noodles that was not unpleasant to hear and gave an inexplicable appetite.
Watching her eat so well, Eduardo Tercero couldn’t help but ask, “Noodles with vegetables and eggs, so good?”
Claudio Belles nodded as he ate, “Mmm, smells good, President Eduardo do you eat it?”
After all, she had been hungry for two days and two nights and was now too hungry to share the food in her hands with anyone else.
Eduardo Tercero’s dark eyes focused playfully on her small face as his figure suddenly moved closer and lowered to seal his lips.
The two were separated by a plate of pasta, but that didn’t stop Eduardo Tercero from kissing her.
After the man kissed her, he even gave her a peck with his thin Almira lips through the wound at the corner of her mouth, the force of which was very gentle.
“Go and eat.”
“…”
Claudius Belles lifts his bowl of noodles and raises his chopsticks, sullenly ducking his head and continuing to eat.
Kissed helplessly, that rare look of weakness wanted Eduardo Tercero to violate even more.
Eyes, searing.
But, she was badly wounded and he was not so beastly as to take advantage of her present weakness to intimidate her.
Claudio Belles finally felt full after eating his egg noodles with vegetables.
Eduardo Tercero asks, “Would you like another bowl?”
He ate quite a bit and after filling his stomach, his glow and spirit revived a bit, “I am not a pig.”
Edward the Third raised his hand to touch his forehead and said in a light but unmistakably focused and serious tone, “I’m sorry I came back so late.”
If he had known she was going to be so badly hurt and almost lose her life, he would have risked his life to run to save her even though he was on a mission.
Claudius Belles raised his hand to shake Edward the Third’s, curved his lips and said, “I am quite glad that President Edward came back to save me.”
“You don’t think I’ll come to your rescue?”
“I thought about it. Besides, the other guy is the president, and I’m someone President Eduardo picked at random, so of course I thought President Eduardo wouldn’t necessarily offend the president for me.”
And, before that, Eduardo Tercero had suspected she was a spy.