Eliana was hurt…

She was so focused on chasing after Hodge that she did not even notice the glass shards on the table. Actually, she did not even know that those glass shards had pierced through her skin.

The moment Preston reminded her about it, she suddenly felt pain all over her arm, stinging her.

She could not help but think of everything that had happened to her in the past few days.

Nicole had slapped her in the face; then she had almost gotten stabbed by a paper knife; and later, she had fallen to the floor while trying to grab her cellphone. However, she felt more miserable now because of her injuries and the bleeding.

How could she be so unlucky?

“Preston, don’t you think that I have been really unlucky lately? I suffered a lot and I got hurt!”

“We need to get your wound dressed first.”

Maurice’s expression darkened at once, and it seemed as though there was a storm brewing in his dark eyes.

The blood dripping from Eliana’s arm was making him uncomfortable.

“Sit here while I go and fetch the first aid kit.”

Maurice escorted her into the private room and went to get the first aid box.

Eliana’s heart softened as she saw the busy man. She was moved to see that someone cared so much about her and even felt the pain lessened.

carefully removed

at first aid,” Eliana muttered in a low voice, a warm emotion filling her

I’ve treated lately?” Maurice said with self-mockery. But the concern

her lips and said, “And how many times did you treat

gigolo who was involved with many women, so it was only natural for her to think that he must have treated

feeling of envy spread in her heart when she thought of Preston

heart skipped a beat as he

exposed himself just a second ago by revealing that

you?” Maurice quickly changed the topic. “Even though you’re a grown-up,

the wound, he applied some hydrogen

in hydrogen peroxide touched her wound, Eliana could not help but gasp in

outcome of

to be cold,

subsided, but she could not stop

had been a senior employee at the Pierce Group, so he must know what had happened back then. Why was he so keen on

though someone was covering her eyes with a veil,

bandage around Eliana’s arm, and when he looked

screaming from the pain. She had been absent-minded

about that man you were chasing? Tell me, why

confused. Eliana had asked him about Hodge before, and she had been

it was about her painful past, Eliana

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