Chapter 11

There is Lloyd, with whom she has been in a relationship, but it was a man. Elena was afraid of Wood for the first time. “Did you wait long?” I heard Wood’s voice coming out of the bathroom to change. As if he were wearing only in the bedroom, he was wearing a soft gown made of lightly fluttering material. His naked body was visible through the fluttering gown. His solid body, made like a piece, met Elena’s gaze. Shocked as if she had been scalded by a fire, Elena lowered her head, avoiding her gaze. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you. I was…”

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“The wound pain in my back suddenly got worse. I have no one to ask for help. If it’s okay, could you put some ointment on it?”, asked Wood. Elena raised her head. It was only then that the ointment bottle Wood was holding caught my eye. As if his words that the pain had intensified were true, Wood’s eyebrows were slightly furrowed.

“Ah, I see.”

“Thank you, Elena.”

Wood, who handed the bottle of ointment to Elena, immediately turned around. The gown that covered Wood’s upper body slid down, and his wide, strong back was instantly placed in front of Elena’s eyes. Neither the body, which had been perfected without any flab, nor the wide, straight shoulders caught Elena’s eyes.

As if blood would drip at any moment Long red scars covered Wood’s coppery back. The appearance of dozens of tree branches tangled together was not a simple wound. It was as if he had been hit by a thorny branch, or as if he had been flogged. My heart was aching, wondering how the hell these scars had come about, but I couldn’t bear to ask him. “If you don’t mind, could you take off your clothes too, Elena?” “…yes?” “Gloves. I won’t look back, please.” It was not meant to be anything else. Still, Elena’s heart broke when he said that she would have to take it off.

She couldn’t hear the sound of her heart beating madly without knowing the subject, nor the sound of dry saliva that kept going down her throat. Calming her beating heart, Elena took off her gloves and began to carefully apply the ointment over Wood’s wound with trembling hands. “Sorry, sorry. you were very sick ?” “It’s okay.” Wood’s back muscles twitched and a low moan leaked out as Elena’s fingers, smothered in sticky, cold ointment, brushed over the red wound. Elena thought several times in her mind about the moment he called her into the room.

She chanted in her mind, “It’s just an order”. This is just an order from the master to the servant, so let’s stay calm. However, the moment she saw the scars covering her beautiful body, an indefinable emotion seized Elena. It was definitely different from when she had had a crush on Wood from a distance. A low sigh flowed from Wood’s mouth, who had been holding back his moaning as he exhaled heavily from the pain of the wound being touched. Every time Elena’s tiny fingers smeared with ointment touched her skin, his back muscles twitched violently. Wood still turned around, accepting Elena’s hand as she applied the ointment over the wound, and opened his mouth calmly. But there was a strange tremor in his voice

“I thought I was used to it, but today I feel more sensitive than usual.”

“Have you been doing it alone so far?”

“I almost was. There were times when I asked the butler to do it, but at some point I gave up. My heart felt heavy, as if my wounds were unintentionally making him uncomfortable.”

Wood seemed unaware that Elena wasn’t comfortable with this moment either. The discomfort the butler must have felt and Elena’s trembling were, of course, different things. “Actually, it’s a wound from a very young age, so even applying ointment won’t clean it. It will only calm the pain.” “When you were young?” “The now-deceased head of the family, yes.”

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