Natalie felt a strong urge to slap him.

I don’t need a mirror to tell me I look filthy right now. It’s not like he is in better shape, so why should he act all disgusted?

“Take off your jacket. I want to dry it over the fire.”

Smiling, Sean replied, “How can I take off my jacket in this state?”

She suddenly remembered that both his arms were dislocated. Oh right, he can’t move them at all.

“You need to undress me,” Sean continued.

She furrowed her brows as she pondered the possibility of leaving him in his wet jacket.

He piqued up, “Since you decided to save me, you should take full responsibility to ensure my survival and wellbeing. Otherwise, you should’ve left me to die in that ditch.”

“You…” Natalie stammered as her face reddened.

A smile broke out on Sean’s face at the sight of Natalie huffing in anger.

 

His expression stunned her.

the past, though they were all of the fake, calculating, and cold

 

the first time she had seen a genuine smile on

smiling about, but

Under his suspicious gaze, she removed his tie and dragged it back and forth against a small stone. The stone cut through

She lined them on the floor and assembled some branches of similar lengths beside

“What are you

to put splints on your arms and leg,” Natalie glanced at him

had collected some branches for this purpose when

with an inexplicable emotion as he watched Natalie work. There was a sense of warmth that felt unfamiliar

did not realize that he had begun staring at Natalie

he was an expert at faking tender gazes, this time was different. It was a sincere fondness

branches and the remnants of the tie. She looked at his leg and warned him, “It’s going to hurt. You’ll need to push through the pain. I’ll tie it as tightly as I can to set your bones in their original position, or you

Nodding, Sean’s tone had

caught the change as well, but she did not linger

distress as beads of cold sweat

when she heard him. She could hardly bring herself to

and pushed through with the

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