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The suspicious eyes of Arden’s mother remained on Erina’s mind as she slowly climbed up the stairs while two of the maids were guiding her.
She went into the bathroom first to talk to her mother. She performed a spell just like how she communicated with her until she slowly saw Aurora’s face in the water.
“My goodness, Erina! You haven’t contacted me for a day! What happened?” Her eyes looked so curious that the twenty-four hours of waiting had already drained her.
“I got kidnapped, mother,” Erina said quietly as she glanced at the door to check if it was locked.
“You’re what?” Aurora’s eyes narrowed. “Who kidnapped you?”
“I heard that the Rockwells sent their men to kidnap me. But then, Arden showed up and saved me,” she said abruptly.
Aurora’s face lightened. Her lips stretched into a wicked smile.
“What happened to Arden?”
“He was stabbed two times and lost consciousness because they included some poison on the knife they used. I used some of the herbal to treat his wound, mother.”
“You’re learning, my dear Erina! That’s right. Get his trust until he falls in love with you, until he bows down to you and worships you like a goddess. You are doing great, my daughter,” Aurora said with a triumphant smile.
Erina nodded, and the smile on her lips remained.
“You’re successfully earning his trust. He came to save you. That’s a good idea,” Aurora said cunningly.
“Yes, mother,” Erina smiled.
“Very well then. Update me if there’s good news. And make sure to tell me once his father is already there, alright?”
Aurora nodded. “Alright, mother…”
“Make sure to seduce him as much as you can, Erina. And never fall in love with him,” she reminded as she slowly faded into the water, her voice fading as well.
Erina stared into the water for a while. There was something about the conversation that put her to a halt.
She… didn’t ask if I’m alright. if I wasn’t hurt. She didn’t ask if I was okay.
Erina sighed and just brushed it off as she took a shower to wipe out the dirt she got in the cave. She spent an hour taking a bath and went outside while wearing a bathrobe.
She saw Arden getting checked by a family doctor as he sat on the sofa, and they opened the bandage she put on his wound to cover the herbal. His mother was beside her, fanning herself, and looked at Erina with a dark expression.
Arden glanced at Erina. Their eyes met. She moved slowly as she went to the bed, where the servant placed her long white dress.
“Seems like you’ve been poisoned,” Erina heard the doctor say.
“What does it mean, Doc?” Mrs. Gunner asked in an aggressive tone, and her fanning stopped.
“But the herbal remedies used stopped the poison immediately. If it wasn’t treated as soon as possible, you’re probably dead by now,” the doctor explained carefully.
Mrs. Gunner gasped. Erina felt a stare of Arden in her as she made her way quietly into the bathroom to change clothes.
“You just need some rest and some herbal tea, which I’ll recommend for your fast recovery. Overall, you are safe now. The herbal helped you to recover fast, which is a wise decision because those are powerful herbs in the medical field,” the doctor said proudly.
Mrs. Gunner couldn’t help but think that Erina is quite talented. Knowing that she grew up in the forest, she’s thinking that she probably learned it there.
The doctor stood and was accompanied by Mrs. Gunner outside so they could talk more.
“I will send a servant to help you take a bath, Arden,” her mother said after coming out together with the doctor.
“No need, mother. Erina will help me out,” he said.
Mrs. Gunner was about to say something, but then she realized that arguing with him is just futile. She closed the door and just walked the doctor down the stairs.
Erina was already wearing the long dress when someone knocked. She glanced and saw the door that she had forgotten to lock. The doorknob rolled until it opened and revealed Arden, who was still topless.
“I uh…” Erina hesitated over what to say when Arden walked towards him and stopped behind him.
He felt how his finger slowly pulled the zipper up; his other hand rested on the side of her waist.
“The doctor was amazed by the herbal remedy you used, which saved my life,” Arden said carefully.
Erina couldn’t talk. She’s quite nervous that Arden might suspect something about it, but it seems like he didn’t mind her talent.
“I will shower. Help me out,” he said.
Erina’s brows knitted, her mind screaming all the mockery she could ever say to him, but at the back of her mind, she could hear her mother’s voice screaming to stay and help him take a bath and seduce him.
She prepared the bathtub as Arden slowly took off the remaining clothes he was wearing. Erina can see his massive body in her peripheral vision. Her mouth ran dry when she got a glimpse of his length, which froze her a bit.
Arden walked towards the bathtub. Erina looked to the other side and cleared her throat. The water poured out of the bathtub as Arden sat and rested his back on the edge, his bent legs rising out of the water to show his knees, and his hands resting on the sides of the tub. A King who’s waiting to be served by his servant
“I’ll wash your back,” Erina offered, and she went to his back.
Arden adjusted his position a bit to give her proper access to his back. She crouched down and took the soap. As she slowly grazed it on his skin, her eyes settled on the wound he got when he got stabbed.
“You should have waited for me so we could take a bath together,” Arden said as his head glanced over his shoulder, his sharp nose getting highlighted in Erina’s eyes.
“I didn’t know you’d like to take a bath with me,” Erina said as her fingers trailed down his torso.
Arden’s eyes drifted to the movement of her fingers. He rested his back against the cold tub with his other hand, his eyes closing.
“Lower, Erina,” he ordered.
Erina swallowed, but her lips stretched for a cunning smile. She leaned closer, her chest pressing against her back as she grazed her hands along his legs, caressing them with the soap she was holding in her left hand.
“Touch it,” he said in a hoarse voice.
Damn this fucker!
But then again, Erina obliged as her hand found its way to its full length, her fingers wrapping on it as her fingertips could barely touch each other.
Arden lifted his head, his Adam’s apple moving as he swallowed. His other hand joined hers and moved it up and down to let her know how it worked.
“This is how you do it,” Arden said, his voice sounding slurry as he submerged into the waves of pleasure created by her touch.
“Like this?” Erina asked innocently, trying to move her hand on its own.
“Yes…”
He hasn’t touched a woman for three years, and he’s probably doing it to himself to release some heat.
My mother told me about these things, but she didn’t tell me the details or how they truly work. But my instinct seems to know what to do.
Erina can hear his low voice as his eyes remained closed, his hips moving back and forth, and his jaw clenching as his brows knitted helplessly.
There’s something about Arden’s moan that makes her body chill. She kept on swallowing as she continued what she was doing until she felt him convulse, his thin lips locking into each other as he growled.
Erina immediately took her hand out of the water when her eyes saw the sticky fluid that splashed on his stomach.
Arden can feel the release that he needs a cold shower to calm himself down, or else he would strain his wound by doing it with Erina, who’s not yet ready as well.
He stood and went out of the tub. Erina swallowed hard, trying not to look at his length, which is now fully erect, as he walked to the shower to continue his bath.
“You can leave now. Just wait for me outside,” Arden said without looking at her.
Erina nodded and went out of the bathroom immediately. She knows that Arden only wants her for those things, but she can’t help but feel bad about it. though she doesn’t really know what made her feel bad. That Arden didn’t even touch her back, or Arden just sent her out after he climaxed.
Damn this asshole.
Erina looked at her hand as she went to the bed and sat there instead. She can’t believe that she touched him in his private part and made him come.
Mother… I think you failed to teach me about these things.
Erina gritted her teeth when she felt how her body tingled earlier as she listened to his moan, her eyes seeing his pleasured expression as if he looked so helpless.
Damn it, Erina! You shouldn’t feel anything about it! You can’t let him make you turn on, or else it will sabotage your plans! You are here for your mother’s plan: to punish them for what they have done to your kind, not to get turned on as well!
Arden went out of the bathroom while the clean white towel was wrapped around his waist. She tried her best to avoid making eye contact with him as she tried to sit silently like a gift waiting for him to open her.
The two servants went in, and Erina didn’t know if she liked it that she was not alone with Arden anymore or if she was mad about it because it hinders her plan to seduce him.
“Call the head of the guards. I want to talk to him here,” Arden said to the servant.
The servant nodded and left immediately. The other servant was about to rub an ointment on his wound when Arden glanced at Erina.
“Come here,” he said.
Erina went to him. He handed the ointment to her and coaxed her to rub it on him instead of the servant.
She rubbed it carefully as Arden watched her with intensity. His eyes explored each side of her face as if he were memorizing her.
What had happened earlier flashed on Arden’s mind as her soft fingers rubbed the area of his chest gently. Erina’s eyes lifted and she saw how Arden looked so pleasurable with just a mere touch.
“Being wounded isn’t that bad after all,” Arden said meaningfully as his brow shot up.
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