Rejected No More: I Am Way Out Of Your League, Darling!

Chapter 317

Chapter 317:

“You’re wounded,” Cedric observed, his tone tinged with a blend of accusation and concern.

“I saw it earlier. Now that we’re alone, let me attend to it.”

“It’s really just a scratch,” Daniela dismissed.

“I’ve weathered far worse storms.”

Over the years, she’d suffered her fair share of nicks and cuts from pencil tips while immersed in her designs. Those injuries had been more severe than this minor scrape.

Cedric’s jaw clenched.

“May I come in?”

Daniela stepped back, granting him entry.

Inside, Cedric made his way to the sofa and set the medical kit on the coffee table. Without a glance, he commanded, “Sit.” His voice carried a note of grievance, as if he bore the injury himself.

Daniela complied, rolling up her sleeve and presenting her

silence as he cleaned

dry,” he instructed

“Got it.”

spicy foods, and lay off the soy

it, Cedric was already extracting a tube

once

shouldn’t worry about any

voice was gentle, laden with an

failed

the used swab in the

hem of his shirt. Her action

“You…”

muttered through gritted

“I should go now.”

his

wasn’t your fault. That ashtray—I flung it myself. How does that

then handed him a

the scratch if you hadn’t shown