Saving The Abandoned Empress

163 “See Her Differently”

“Elee... Would you be alright?”

Cedrick asked as he felt sorry for her and ashamed for showing such a weak side infront of her.

‘She called me by my nickname infront of everyone and the way she helped me over the emperor...’

Eleanora, who was helping Cedrick to sit down on his bed paused and she kneeled down infront of him.

“Rick... Do you think this matters are more important then my friend?”

“But still...”

Cedrick spoke lowly as his head hanged low.

“Look at me you dumbass. You are older then me but make me feel like the older sister.”

“Pff-”

.....

Hearing Eleanora’s words, Cedrick chuckled a little and she smilled before getting up to stand.

“I don’t know what happened to the emperor so suddenly but he can’t bully the weak just because he can’t control his own emotions.”

“You didn’t gave up even when your opponent was so stronger then you, You are not weak at all; Rick.”

“So don’t be upset about it.”

Eleanora spoke as she patted on his shoulder to comfort him.

Where Cedrick felt his chest become heavier.

‘Does she knows that her kindness is something which makes people can’t give up?’

‘I know, she only see me as a friend and am satisfied with that... It’s just hard to stop growing my feelings for her.’

“Take of your clothes.”

“!!!”

“HUHHH???”

“...”

Cedrick was shocked as he heard Eleanora’s words, which made Eleanora speechless.

“Take of your clothes, otherwise how am i supposed to heal you?”

“B-But...”

“It’s not even my first time seeing your body, why are you acting like that?!”

“...”

Cedrick’s face turned red as he hesitantly took off his shirt, revealing his thin but muscular body.

His muscles was not that excessive as he doesn’t needs to train much.

Unlike Cathain or Alexander, who trains hard everyday as they are swordmaster’s.

Seeing a man’s body was nothing new to Eleanora, who grew up seeing his father’s muscular sexy body.

‘No one can compare with my father’

Eleanora felt proud as she recalled how handsome and strong her father is, before she started to heal Cedrick’s injuries.

‘His wounds...’

Eleanora looked at the whipping marks on Cedricks back and felt sorry for him.

Because of Eleanora’s words, Cedrick had stopped using magic to hide his wounds.

He used to think that he was no good, thus he was punished by his father.

But it was only after he opened up to Eleanora, he understood it was not his fault.

Why should he kill an innocent animal to learn how to kill people?

Why should he alter the papers to get powers when he knows how many people will suffer because of his actions?

He also has the right to be happy and do whatever he wants.

From then on, he stopped hiding his wounds and decided to face every situation.

Cedrick was not that hurt but his muscles became stiff and painful as he never trained for that long.

He felt the numbness go away as Eleanora continued to heal him.

After a few minutes, his pain completely vanished.

Cedrick moved his body a little to do some stretches and Eleanora let out a sigh in relief.

“Are you comfortable now?”

“Yeah, i don’t feel pain anymore, Thanks.”

“Buy me some chocolates when we go back, i don’t take empty thanks from friends.”

Eleanora spoke as she smilled at Cedrick.

“Now lay down and rest. I will go back to submit the reports.”

“Okay,”

Cedrick replied as he laid down on the bed and closed his eyes.

Seeing him resting, Eleanora also closed the door silently before leaving and headed towards her room.

Her head was hurting because of all this drama in this early morning.

“Have he gone crazy after losing his memory?”

Eleanora murmured lowly as she walked because of frustration.

“Yeah, You are driving me crazy.”

“...”

Eleanora jumped in surprise as she didn’t expected Cathain to stood infront of her room with his arms crossed.

“What are you doing here?”

Eleanora asked in a cold voice as she remembered how he deliberately let Cedrick attack him and then let him feel ashamed.

‘I really don’t wanna talk with him now.’

As Cathain didn’t replied even after a few minutes has passed, Eleanora decided to ignore him and enter her room.

“Wait!”

Cathain spoke as he held her wrist to stop her.

“What?”

Eleanora asked.

Seeing her indifferent look, Cathain felt hurted and opened his mouth to speak.

“Am hurt.”

“...”

Cathain spoke as he forwarded his left hand, which had a cut mark towards her to see.

“...”

‘Does he thinks am blind and fool?’

‘It’s a clear cut which have been made from a direct slash, caused by himself!’

Eleanora tried to conceal her anger as she looked at Cathain angrily.

“Come in!”

Eleanora spoke as she entered her room, not seeig the sly smile on his face.

‘So you care for me afterall...’

Cathain entered her room and felt like this room smells like her.

‘It smells like her...’

Then he noticed Eleanora who took of her coat and sat on her bed as she gestured him to sit beside him.

.....

“...”

‘Why does it feels like she is inviting me to...’

Cathain’s face flushed red as he thought about a scene where Eleanora was inviting him on bed to sleep together.

“Your Majesty...”

“...”

Eleanora’s cold voice made Cathain to come back in reality and he sighed as he went to sit beside her.

“Your hand”

Eleanora asked for his hands and he put his hands above hers obediently.

Then a faint but sparkling bright golden light glow as she closed her eyes to heal him.

A warm feel ran through his veins and spread all over his body as the cut mark on his hand vanished.

“Done”

“So quick?

“...”

‘WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY SO QUICK?!’

Cathain thought it would take some time to heal and both of them would sit together, maybe Eleanora will feel concerned for him.

‘Did i cut it too lightly?’

‘I should cut it more deeply, Next time.’

Eleanora stood up from the bed and started to arrange the papers which she will present in today’s meeting.

Ignoring the penetrating gaze of him and continued to work as she put on her glasses.

“...”

The more he looked, the more Cathain felt like he was getting lost.

Eleanora was standing infront of the table with her one hand on the table as her another hand continued to flip through papers.

The black pants and the white fitting shirt made her body curves look more visible as some of her long silver hair fall infront of her body as she leaned down a little.

She looked so focused in reading the papers and sometimes she would push up the glasses from the bridge of her sharp pointed nose.

‘She looks so breautiful while working seriously...’

The scene infront of Cathain was too tempting.

He just wanted to hug her from behind and wrap his hands around her small waist.

Make her sit on the table, pushing away all those papers on the ground as he kisses her and she wraps her slender hands around his neck.

‘...’ 𝘧reewℯ𝚋noѵ𝒆l. cｏ𝙢

‘What am i thinking about!!!’

Cathain felt ashamed of his own thinkings and as he looked again, he found her looking at him.

“Done staring?”

Eleanora asked as she crossed her arms and asked him, whose face was fully red.

‘Just what kind of perverted thoughts he had, which made his face look this red?’

Even Cathain felt more embarrassed as he was caught staring at her and looked away.

“I wasn’t staring... I was just curious about your next plan for the war, afterall the next movement will start soon.”

“Yeah, So please control your emotion and refrain from doing meaningless things.”

“...”

Eleanora spoke as she indirectly mentioned the morning incident with Cedrick and picked up her knight coat to leave for the meeting which will start soon.

“DO YOU THINK WHAT I DID WAS MEANINGLESS?!”

Cathain yelled from her behind as he felt angry.

‘Can’t she see that, he looks at her differently?!’

Eleanora paused on her steps and kept silent without replying or looking back.

Which made Cathain more angry as he thought she wasn’t taking him seriously.

Cathain was about to stood up from her bed to approch her when he finally heard her reply.

“Yes, What you did was not only meaningless but also childish.”

“...”

As soon as Eleanora finished replying, she was about to open the door but he caught her wrist as he turned her body around to face him angrily.

“Childish?”

“Yes, you are being unreasonable; Your Majesty.”

“...”

Cathain felt angry as he heard her calling him unreasonable.

His heart clenched in pain and his grip become stronger.

Eleanora felt pain but she keep looking at him angrily as she tried to not show pain in her face.

“Can’t you see that he looks at you differently?!”

“...”

“I know it... I know that he sees me differently.”