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

senses, she felt someone hand her a trekking

Luke picked her

her arms instinctively went around the back of Luke’s neck, while her other hand held two trekking

ignored her cries of surprise as he walked toward

Luke had no trouble carrying her, Luca could to squirm away. “I can walk by myself, Mr. Crawford. This’ll be very

keep some distance away from him, so she tried to

loosen her back muscles, but she could not loosen up no matter how hard she

had met with an accident for two consecutive days, and

were not cursed, why would she suffer a leg cramp in the pool,

walk fast. If we don’t reach the gazebo in time, we’ll be caught in the rain,” Luke explained while keeping

her lip, feeling that she

wanted to keep a distance from him so that she did not become a burden. She did not expect that she had not

before, and

Luke noticed her movements. When he lowered his head to

like Bianca’s eyes

was worried that

comfortable like this. Why don’t I ride piggyback?” Luca suggested, thinking that if she needed Luke to carry her, she would rather ride

could not stand

not have warm love like before. How she wished that she could tell him that she

He placed her on top of it,

was telling her

looked at him. A roar of thunder could be

they would soon be caught in the

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

she could not avoid physical

not put

force her. He stood up, and

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