When His Eyes Opened By Simple Silence

Chapter 123

Avery reentered the bedroom with a first aid kit in her hand.

She knelt down by Elliot’s legs and began to undress his wounds.

His injuries were more severe than she had imagined.

A large piece of skin was missing from his leg, revealing the bloody red flesh underneath…

He must have been in agony!

Elliot barely twitched while Avery treated and dressed his wounds.

He noticed that her breathing had turned heavy.

“It looks worse than it is. It doesn’t hurt,” he said, his voice piercing through the silence.

He wanted to make her feel better, but she did not want his false consolation.

Avery poked his wound with her finger, causing Elliot to inhale sharply.

“Tell me again how much it doesn’t hurt,” she said as she glared at him with reddened eyes.

Elliot placed his arms behind him, then narrowed his eyes and said, “It doesn’t hurt.”

her not poking at his wound

would ache at

for at least another week. Don’t go running around!” Avery snapped, then turned and

against the bed’s headboard and picked up his phone

made a call, then asked,

bullet had found its mark, but it had not punctured any major

being interrogated at that very

get him to talk. We’ll get what we’re looking for before dawn,” reported the man on

him die before

the one who went through such

year ago had put him in a vegetative

to let the

his pills from the nightstand

on four types of medication and had to take a handful

pills, then placed the glass

bathroom

good idea for us to sleep on the same bed with the state of your injuries. I’m afraid I’ll end up bumping into you during the

hurting me?” Elliot asked as he stared at her with clear yet deep eyes. “Or

flushed cheeks, Avery climbed into bed and

you happy now?” she said as she glanced at him with a well-behaved expression on her face. “The way you are now, I guess I won’t have to worry about you doing anything to me. What do I have to be

unbridled appearance aroused a desire