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Chapter 44

Author: Joy Pen
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CHAPTER 44.

Amelia offered to help change his bandage immediately after getting into the bedroom.

"Do you know how to do it?" Alessandro asked her and she frowned with displeasure. However, she decided not to bother much with it as he might not mean it in an insulting way.

"My younger sister was quite troublesome when she was little so I was prepared for both her little and big injuries." She purposely removed the fact that she needed it more for herself because of the mistreatment she suffered at home.

"Please, take your seat and let me do it."

Amelia said as she sat on the edge of the bed, the first aid kit resting on the bedside table. Her hands trembled slightly as she prepared to replace Alessandro's bandage.

Alessandro slowly took off his shirt while maintaining eye contact with her for a few seconds before she decided to look away.

He then sat shirtless in front of her, his chiseled torso bearing faint scars from whatever secret battles he might have gotten hi
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