Caleb and Layla sent Luacs home, but Luacs had insisted that Elena did not follow them. Levi drove the car to pick up Michael and Elena, and the three of them finally left the hospital for Michael’s mansion in the late hour of the night.
On the way, Elena thought to start a conversation with Michael but his gloomy and cold expression staved her off. She could feel the rage in him. Although she was grateful that he went to her rescue, she had no idea how to break the ice between them, especially when he had that proud look on him. There was only awkward silence in the car throughout the journey.
As soon as the car pulled up at the front door of Michael’s mansion, he got out, and his long legs gave him a natural advantage in widening the distance between them. In a blink of an eye, he had already gone through the door.
Elena called out as she ran to catch up with him, “Eldest Young Master…”
However, he did not give her any eye contact. He moved like lighting across the hall and went straight upstairs. Why was he so irritable? She knew she had driven him mad when she refused to return home with him because she insisted on taking care of Mu Luacs at the hospital.
She thought she had made it clear that Luacs was only her friend, and she would not leave her friend behind under such circumstances. Must he be so arrogant that he expected everyone to obey his order? Must he be that angry when his authority was challenged?
Elena was scared stiff for most of the night, but she was also knackered. Eldest Young Master Williams’s bad attitude had sapped her motivation to initiate a conversation with him. She pursed her lips and went upstairs in glum.
Back in the guest room, she took a shower and got changed. She felt slightly refreshed. Then she went down to the kitchen to fetch a bottle of soda and was ready to head back to bed when she bumped into Levi halfway through the stairs. Feeling dejected, Levi, too, went downstairs for a drink. Elena nodded at him politely and walked past him.
“Young Madam.” Levi looked at her. He looked as if he wanted to talk, and yet he stopped himself. It was as if he was trying to be cautious with his words. He was frustrated and annoyed at Elena for the way she treated Eldest Young Master Williams. It bugged him because he knew that he had no right to comment on it.
“Young Madam, can’t you… Can’t you show some concern toward Eldest Young Master Williams?” Elena looked at him quizzically. What did he mean? She considered that question in her mind for some time. She thought she had been rather patient with the hostile Eldest Young Master Williams! What could she do when he was obviously unwilling to respond to her? She could not tarnish her dignity by staying by his side so shamelessly. Did Levi not know how conceitful his eldest young master was?
“Eldest Young Master Williams was also injured, but Young Madam did not…”
“What did you say? He was hurt?” Elena’s heart squeezed tightly, and her face changed. “When did it happen? Tonight? But I…”
“But Young Madam did not even notice that, am I right?” At that point, Levi was not worried that Eldest Young Master Williams would scold him for his words. Eldest Young Master was already so miserable and lonely, and he could not stand it.
“Young Madam, you only had your friend and his injury in your mind, but you did not even know that Eldest Young Master was also injured because of you.”
“Eldest Young Master Williams was very unhappy. He did not allow Ryan to take a look at him at all. I offered to put some medication on his wound, but he chased me out of the room…”
Elena raced upstairs and pushed the room door open with a bang. Her eyes had widened when she saw the wretched man. He had showered and changed into a pair of comfortable lounge pants as his night robe laid by his side.
He had a cotton bud in his hand as he tried to put medication on his arm. There was a gaping wound on his arm, and it was apparent that a blade had caused it. He had managed to clean most of the blood, but there was still some blood that dripped from the lacerated wound. It was not a deep wound, but it was nasty, nonetheless! Tears welled in Elena’s eyes when she saw him tending to his wound alone.
Michael was taken aback that someone dared to invade his room. He scowled when he heard the room door open, and he was astonished when Elena walked through the door. Subsequently, his face grew darker. “Didn’t I say to knock before you come in?”
Elena was not perturbed by his hostility at all. She closed the door behind her and walked over to him. Then she quietly took the cotton bud from him. She dipped it with some of the ointment and was ready to apply it to his wound. Michael moved his arm away and snapped, “It’s just a small cut, don’t worry about it.”
“Are you throwing a tantrum, Eldest Young Master Williams?”
Elena glared at him. Surprisingly, the usually composed Eldest Young Master Williams had been reduced to a child. Michael glared back at her. His razor-sharp gaze was menacing. Usually, Elena would have surrendered under that stare, but the dreary sight of him as he put the medication on himself broke her out of her flurried frenzy. She had totally succumbed to his lonesome image.
“Sorry, I didn’t know…”
Michael ignored her. She knew that he would not compromise easily with his egoistic behavior. It was indeed her fault that night. As he held onto the cotton bud, she pulled a chair to the side of the bed and lifted her head to meet his eyes. “I was wrong. I did not know that you were injured…”
She had only been worried about Luacs earlier. No wonder Levi was agitated. “Can you forgive me, Eldest Young Master Williams?”
He still refused to say a word, but he did pull away when Elena held onto his hand. She pulled his arm closer to her and carefully dabbed the cotton bud onto his wound. The wound was much worse than she thought. Even though the cut was not too deep, it was not a light one either. The deepest part of the wound was about one centimeter deep.
He must have bled quite a bit earlier in the night, but it was hard to notice under his dark-colored shirt. Nevertheless, she would have been able to spot it if she had paid more attention to him. It was obviously her fault to have overlooked him and focused solely on Luacs.
“Is it painful?” She asked gently. She felt as if she could feel the pain when she looked at it. Eldest Young Master Williams did not moan about the pain. His determined look and steadfast gaze made her heart ached.
“Why don’t we let Ryan take a look? Don’t you need stitches with such a deep cut?”
Still, he remained silent. It was as if she was talking to the wall. Elena was not angry at all. When she saw him like that, it pulled a string in her heart. Each time she dabbed on his wound, she would bend her head low to blow on it, as she tried to reduce the discomfort and pain.
Finally, she was done with the ointment on his arm. She picked up his night robe and rose to her feet. She lifted her eyes, and his bare chest came into her view. Every inch of his broad chest was hard and lean muscles. Her face immediately flushed crimson red.
She did not notice that he was topless. His refined chest muscle made her pulse race, and her mouth went dry. Her heart pounded against her ribcage as her face got redder and warmer.
Then, a voice came from above her head. “Have you seen enough?”