Chapter 219

It was not until they were inside the lounge that Lucas finally put Serenity down on the sofa. He looked at her left hand, which she was covering with her right hand, and asked her, “Does it hurt?”

“Just a little,” she mumbled.

He could see from her pained expression that she was making it sound less serious than it actually was. The usual calmness and tranquility she had on her delicate face were now gone, replaced by a tight knit in the brows and sickly pallor. Even her voice sounded like it was taking her a lot of effort just to speak.

The sight of her suffering like that tightened his chest, but it was such a foreign feeling for him. So was how he had felt when he had seen her kneeling and kowtowing. When he saw that copper heater fall on her hand-it was such a raw pain that he thought he had gotten a thorough thrashing!

And then, he almost reflexively rushed to her side to help her up.

Lucas asked himself, why had he done that? He had already confirmed that Serenity was not the woman he was looking for when he went to the small town, so why was he still so inexplicably drawn to her?

like the girl in his memories, so perhaps that was why even

a firmer touch on her injured hand in order to

her lips hard, and beads of sweat broke out on her forehead. She could only respond

the doctor was finally done, Serenity felt like she might collapse any minute now. Her forehead and

to apply some medicine on the bruises, that’s all. For now, make sure you take good care of this hand and try not to use it to carry any heavy objects. If you’re still

doctor was just an on-site doctor on the film set, after all, so he could only treat some minor injuries and apply some bandages here. There would

Serenity. “Thank

doing her job at the Sanitation Office. With a job like

recuperate.

look like you’re fine, but I think you’d

get some medicine for the bruises from

helped her up

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