Return of the Crowned Heiress

Chapter 247

Felicia finally snapped out of her confusion.

Why would Stephan say she was going to find Arnold?

What kind of joke was that?

Her expression darkened. She opened her mouth to retort, but he forced a kiss on her before she could speak. A commanding, demanding, and relentless kiss swallowed her words before they could escape. She struggled, but Stephan was unyielding. His dominance left her no room to retaliate.

Felicia didn't have her silver needles with her, but she didn't need them. She knew the human body's meridians like the back of her hand-every pressure point and every weak spot was burned into her memory. Moreover, Stephan sustained some serious injuries after that fall in Alverton. With precision and speed, she curled her fingers into a claw and drove them into his waist, hitting the exact spot to make him buckle. A low grunt escaped Stephan, his body stiffening as his dark eyes bore into her. There was no pain in his expression-only a simmering danger that seemed to deepen the room's already charged atmosphere. Then, a faint, coppery scent filled the air.

Felicia froze, her anger giving way to guilt. Had she hit him too hard? She knew she'd gone for a sensitive spot, but she hadn't intended to hurt him like this.

"Don't move!" she exclaimed, quickly climbing out of bed. She flicked on the lights, revealing his disheveled state and the crimson beginning to seep through his shirt.

"I'll get the first aid kit. Just don't touch it!"

and slightly swollen lips were evidence of their earlier confrontation, which

Stephan deserved it. If he hadn't forced that kiss, she wouldn't have gone so hard

to check the damage, her complaints died on her

waist. It was a wound from when they'd fallen off the cliff in Alverton and were swept downstream by the raging waters. Stephan had

felt a

softened as she carefully cleaned and dressed the wound. What she had initially intended to be quick

been

and brush off the injury casually by saying, "Just patch it up, it's nothing." But he swallowed the words as he watched her furrowed brows and the guilt

least this little brat has some conscience left,"

though the lingering heat of his earlier emotions hadn't entirely subsided, his gaze was now calmer and more composed. Felicia, still tending to his wound, sighed dramatically as she sprinkled her handmade medicinal powder over the cut. "My medicine... This stuff is

him the rest of the bottle. "Here, take this. Use a little each day. It'll stop the bleeding and help it heal faster." Stephan accepted it with a smirk, tapping the glass bottle thoughtfully. "This won't end up like last

exactly what he was referring

time she

it had been a scar-removal ointment. What followed

now? You didn't have any drugs in your system then, so you were plenty clear-headed! Yet you still pinned me

had been about to say, "You gave me a long kiss!" Instead,