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.

taken her a lot of effort to concentrate on it

on her forehead, and then carefully put away the tools. She stated, "You can't come into contact with water for two hours

he put his

little uncomfortable after the treatment. Take a

come back."

left the room

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

and closed his eyes, feeling a sense of

Lucille went downstairs, she found that not only

of new furniture and appliances in the house. They were

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

then told Madam Grant which

Grant, who was both surprised and delighted,

not be able to

down on

Lucille raised an eyebrow.

Madam Grant, so there was no need for her to

was another problem,

buying the land and take

left, she would have a chance to go to the old house and find out

Sent by Him

the title deed. She was about to look for Bernard when she heard a rumbling sound coming

take a look. At the end of the

half a dozen

approaching from afar.

waiting by the road

was obvious that the machines were sent by

road. When they saw what was going on, they looked at

about to answer, they

He's just going

Lucille slowly stepped forward.

simplest

was a little dissatisfied. He

you

do have a say in

an innocent and arrogant girl. "This is a wonderful place for retirement. I think

from Mr. Joseph," she

borrowed Joseph's power, but she also wanted him to think that she was still the simple-minded, useless girl that the original

her eyebrows and confidently declared, "I said I wanted it, so Mr. Joseph

Bernard was speechless.

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