Be Your Lover Forever (Alicia) novel Chapter 2015

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"This is the tea house of the temple, so there is only simple food..."

In an instant, he seemed to have come to his senses. Elijah stood up, wanting to take the teapot. "Let me do it!"

Lowering his head, he caught a bruise that was faintly visible on Kim Mi-chi's wrist. Before he could withdraw his eyes, he was shocked again. He grabbed her wrist.

"What's wrong? Are you hurt?"

The next second, Kim Mi-chi withdrew her hand. She rubbed her arm, then pulled her sleeves down. "No!"

At this moment, there was no need to doubt that something was wrong. Taking a step back, Elijah pulled her arm. As expected, when he pulled up her sleeve, he saw that her arm was covered with round spots, some deep and some shallow. There were scars of various sizes. It was as if she had been scalded. It was truly a bit too horrible to look at.

His eyes widened yet again. Elijah looked at her once again filled with disbelief. Why were there so many scars on her arm?

Unknowingly, his mind was filled with all sorts of scenes of her being abused. Elijah was already disturbed by the scene from the nightclub.

At this moment, from the bottom of his heart, he felt that she was miserable!

However, in the past, he did not remember that she had so many scars on her arms!

Although Dragons Gang faced all kinds of dangerous situations before, Elijah was still born with a golden spoon. Even though he had seen the worst of society, the scene at East Banpool remained as the cruelest and most indescribable thing he had ever seen in his life. It was different seeing it for himself.

He thought that he was cold-blooded, but he didn't know whether it was because of her face or because it was too indescribable. It had already developed into a nightmare for him. It could be imagined how terrible the situation was at that time.

Doubt, confusion, sympathy, and mixed emotions that were hard to describe flooded Elijah, making him feel suffocated. The one thing he couldn't accept was the woman who was caught in this matter seemed calmer and more at ease than him.

All in all, he was not used to being caught off guard.

Before Elijah could find his own thoughts and voice, Kim Mi-chi explained.

"They are old wounds. I burn them myself! I smoke, though not often. When I can't stand it, I will burn my arm. I got used to it but didn't expect that there would be so many scars!"

Her lips twitched bitterly, and her voice was still calm.

"In the past, I was afraid of being seen and questioned. I covered them with special effects concealer used for filming. It does not come off easily even in water! Anyway, you know it, so I didn't..."

Her explanations erased all the doubts in Elijah's heart. A trace of bitterness flashed across her face. What Kim Mi-chi said were not all lies. There were indeed a few burn scars on her arm in the past, but most had already faded. The new scars were the ones she just did to herself.

Elijah stayed silent for a while, but he heard whimpering, he raised his head and saw Kim Mi-chi still had a bitter smile.

"You must think that I'm dirty and cheap. How can I still come out and meet people? If I were an ordinary woman, I would have jumped off the building, right?"

"It's not that!"

He was too eager to deny it, which showed that he subconsciously rejected it: He didn't need a woman to be loyal to only one man forever, but he looked down on women who were like prostitutes.

That included Carolien. Although he had to admit that he was not a good guy and coveted women's beauty, he really hated those who used their bodies to get what they wanted, regardless of men or women.

But slowly, he saw that Carolien was different. She had no other choice because of her life, but she kept her principles and bottom line. It was also because of this that he changed his mind about her and even began to look at her from a different perspective. This was the biggest difference between them.

They had been together for such a long time, and Carolien was not wealthy but she had never asked him for anything. Even for Alistair's hospital bills last time, he only paid a small sum since the rest was paid by her.

As far as Elijah knew, Kim Mi-chi's conditions were much better than hers. She shouldn't have fallen that far.

"I don't have the face to live in the world, but I can't die! If I die now, I don't even know where I would end up. I don't know why I end up like this. I don't want to give up! I don't want to do this either, but I can't. Once I started, I couldn't get out!"