Chapter 74 A Scar Beneath The Scarf

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Yumice stood barefoot on the carpet, picked up her scarf, and carefully inspected it. “Good thing it’s not damaged. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be bable /bto return bit /b

Wyatt cut in.

You don’t need to return t

Yunice looked at him. She was about to ask why but then remembered something more important.

“Let me check your back,” she said.

I still remembered how pale he looked before I fell asleep. It must’ve been from the wound,

Wyatt sat up without resistance, and Yunice reached out to unbutton his shirt.

She had grown up around medicine with her father, so she had seen both men and women. To her, there was no sense of taboo. Undressing someone for treatment didn’t feel inappropriate at ball/b.

But when her knuckle brushed against Wyatt’s Adam’s apple by ident, a strange tremor ran through her.

Something flickered in her mind. Her face warmed, but she forced herself to stayposed. Thank you for saving me today.

Wyatt corrected her. ‘Not today. Yesterday. You’ve been asleep for seven hours.”

It had just passed midnight, so technically, it was the day before.

Normally, that wouldn’t matter. But as he spoke, the vibrations from his voice resonated through his throat, and Yunice felt it on her fingers.

She tensed again. “How bdid /bbyou /beven find me?”

Yunice had thought, no one would notice my disappearance, much lesse to rescue me.

bSo /bwhen someone actually rushed in for me. I was stunned. My nose stang, and tears nearly welled up.

It had been so long since anyone cared.

They say people who grow up unloved are the easiest to fall for even the smallest act of kindness. I didn’t want to let my quard down in front of Hyatt.

She swiftly undid the bbuttons /bon his shirt, then walked around to his bback/b. Her hands reached in from the cor, spreading the fabric open along his shoulders.

His back was wrapped in gauze, band /ba

bloodstain had spread through it. Just looking at it made her frown

It bwas /bbPaul /bHe thought you were with me. Wyatt exined.

Yunice touched the gauze gently. It was unbearable. Si immediately moved to undo it and clean the bwound /bproperly.

Just then. Wyatt turned his head slightly, casting a nce at her from the corner of his eye. “I heard bPaul’s /b

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“bInjured/b!” Yunice’s expression changed. Her hand froze How bad? Is he dead?”

Wyatt’s eyes darkened. “No.”

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“Oh Yunice gave ba /bshort breply /band went back to unwrapping the gauze. “With an injury thisrge, keeping it wrapped only slows healing. The constant friction makes it worse.”

Wyatt was momentarily stunned. I thought Yunice would rush to Paul first.

They had nearly twenty years of history. How could she just walk away?

He frowned agam: she might just want to deal with me first before heading over

Yunice kept working on the gauze. Because of the blood and fluid, parts of it had stuck to his wound. Peeling it off was like tearing through stitches–it hurt.

Even though she was as gentle as possible, some pain was unavoidable. She nced up at Wyatt and found him cold–faced, silent, bearing the pain without a sound.

So Yunice decided to stop holding back. She figured it was better to get it over with quickly.

She unraveled the gauze in a single motion, then reached around his chest to pull thest bit across and handed it to her other hand.

Wyatt had broad shoulders band /barge frame. Compared to Yunice’s size, the contrast was sharp.

And the way she moved the gauze meant she had to reach around him like she was hugging him. Every time her hands passed in front of bhim/b, her body leaned in closer.

Her breath brushed against his raw, baching /bskin, making him ufortable in ways he didn’t expect.

Feeling his body tense, Wyatt suddenly grabbed her hand that was resting on his chest.

“If you’re in such a rush to see Paul, just go. You bdon’t /bhave to pretend with me.”

Yunice blinked, unsure bwhat /bshe’d done wrong. She replied calmly, “Who said I wanted to see him?”

She pulled her hand back and continued unwrapping the gauze. “Plenty of people will visit him, He

doesn’t need me.”

Only I and Wyatt are the type nobody cared about. Even iif /iwe died, no one would notice.

Thinking of bthat/b, Yunice felt a strange sense of kinship with Wyatt.

He reminded me of a stray dog, mistreated for so long that any act of kindness would make him bare his teeth first, not wog his toil.

The image of a muddy, rain–soaked dog popped into her head. Instead of being scared of him, bYunice /bfound it kind of funny.

Wyatt had no idea what she wasughing about. He frowned and muttered, “Can’t you be bgentler/b? I swear Paul must’ve sent y

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