Luca could feel dull pain spread from her waist to the rest of her body. She had injured herself.

The pain caused tears to fall from the corner of her eyes.

Suddenly, Luke felt a twinge of pity for her. “Can you stand up?” He asked.

Luca nodded. “Yes.”

Luke looked at the tree behind Luca. The vegetation was quite dense at this part of the mountain, and the trees were quite old with thick trunks. She had slammed into the tree in full force, and it must be very painful. If she were unfortunate, she might even suffer a hairline fracture.

However, she was lucky to be stopped by the tree. Otherwise, who knew where she might end up?

The forest was natural. Even though the owners of the area had taken every precaution to ensure the visitors’ safety, there was only so much they could do to alter the natural landscape.

If the tree had not broken Luca’s fall, she would have suffered a greater injury, or worse, rolled off a cliff.

Seeing that Luca was struggling to get up, Luke reached out. “You need help.”

Luca pressed her lips together and grabbed his hand. With the trekking pole in her other hand, she pushed herself into a sitting position, then spent the next half a minute trying to catch her breath.

Luke did not rush her. He waited patiently for her to catch her breath. In the meantime, the sky became darker, and thunder could be heard in the distance.

It was going to rain soon.

Luca looked up at the sky, thinking they should not linger there.

Not only would the path be slippery, but it would also be dangerous to be under a tree if the rain turned out to be a lightning storm…

She gritted her teeth and tried to stand up, but the pain on her waist caused her to fall forward and land on Luke’s chest.

The familiar masculine scent, intensified by the sweat from the hike, assailed Luca’s nostrils. Luca could feel the warmth of Luke’s body on her cheek.

so close

come to her senses, she felt someone hand her

picked her up in a

what was going on, her feet were off the ground. One of her arms instinctively went around

of surprise as he walked

trouble carrying her, Luca could to squirm away. “I can walk by myself, Mr.

to keep some distance away from him, so she tried to straighten her back, even though it was

waist tried to make her loosen her back muscles, but she

with an accident for two consecutive

she suffer a leg cramp in the pool, and why would she

in time, we’ll be caught in the rain,” Luke explained while keeping his gaze on the path in front

bit her lip, feeling that she had become

so that she did not become a burden. She

before, and

thought. She felt horrible. Luke noticed her movements. When he lowered his head to look at her, he

Bianca’s eyes whenever she was

worried that she

Luca suggested,

stand looking

warm love like before. How she wished that

looked around and noticed a large boulder nearby. He placed her on top of it, then turned around

her to get

him. A

be caught in the rain.

him, Luke said, “Hold tight. I don’t want you to

way, she could not avoid physical intimacy. “I’ll be

did not put her

stood up, and

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