Hidden Emotions

Lucille raised her eyebrows in amazement. Suddenly, she heard Joseph speak. His voice was heavy and muffled as if he was restraining something.

No one knew what hidden emotions there were in those eyes of his. His gaze was like a surging undercurrent, deep and bottomless, yet slightly cold and lonely.

He murmured, "Don't be afraid of me, Bobo."

Lucille was stunned. What was there to be afraid of?

Under her puzzled stare, Joseph took off his shirt completely

The man's strong and buff chest was covered with scars of various sizes. Some were deep, and some were shallow. Even after several years, one could tell that those scars were once. wounds that were nearly fatal. Lucille sucked in a cold breath.

Most people would only have bruises on their bodies.

On Joseph's body, there were gunshot wounds, whip wounds, and other injuries from torture devices.

Joseph, the son of the Collins family, was born into a comfortable life. He was proud and noble with ant extraordinary status. With a snap of his fingers, he could change Shein City's destiny. Nobody would have thought that someone like him, who had the world in the palm of his hand, had experienced something that would leave so many horrible.

scars.

Could it be that... the people from back then were the ones. who injected the toxins into his body?

Lucille was shocked, but she didn't ask anything.

Everyone had their secrets.

It was just like how Joseph had never asked her anything.

Lucille took out some tools and sat cross-legged across from Joseph.

She began treating him seriously. At the same time, she answered, "It's not that scary."

That was how her body looked like in the past, too.

Lucille pursed her lips. She didn't finish her sentence.

Joseph looked up. The girl in front of him was calm, with a sense of serenity that did not match her age. She used the tools with skilled fingers. In just a few minutes, he could feel the cold poison in his body flowing around.

With her treatment, the toxins were trapped and then sealed together.

The process took about half an hour.

When she removed the last tool, Lucille heaved a sigh of relief.

had taken her a lot of effort to concentrate on it for such

wipe away the sweat on her forehead, and then carefully put away the tools. She stated, "You can't come into contact

Then, he put his

the treatment. Take a rest first. I'll go

come back."

room as

the wooden bed, with Lucille's faint fragrance lingering at the tip of

grinned and closed his eyes,

she

of new furniture and appliances in the house. They were brand new, including things like a refrigerator,

these things, Sir? T-This won't do. I haven't done anything to earn this. I can't

and then told Madam

Grant, who

would not be able to

down on some

Lucille raised an eyebrow.

Culver had already talked to Madam Grant, so

another

the land and take the

have a chance to go

Sent by Him

to look for Bernard when she heard a rumbling

turned around to take a look. At the end

saw around half a

approaching from afar.

by the road with his

obvious that the

they saw what was going on, they looked at each other and then asked Bernard, "Sir,

about

will remain untouched. He's just going to build a new

Lucille slowly stepped forward.

the simplest and

dissatisfied. He frowned and

isn't something you can get involved in. Go

wrong, Bernard. I do have a say in this,"

an innocent and arrogant girl. "This is

from Mr.

Not only did she want Bernard to think that she had borrowed Joseph's power, but she also wanted him to think that she was

eyebrows and confidently declared, "I said I wanted it,

Bernard was speechless.

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