Chapter 116: Applying the Ointment
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System Theta stayed silent for a reason.
It knew perfectly well that what Elias was feeling was not pain alone.
If this had been Liora Voss or Serena Blackwood, either of them would have noticed the wrongness in him almost immediately. If it had been Yvonne Quinn, she might have gone even farther and concluded that he had a real taste for being hurt. Giselle, on the other hand, was almost absurdly innocent in this particular area. For all the ice in her temperament and all the damage in the rest of her, there were still places where she remained far too straightforward.
That did not mean he was uninjured.
He was.
Giselle did not say anything else after catching him in the lie. She climbed into the front seat, opened the glove compartment, took out a metal tin, and returned to the back.
Then she handed it to him.
"Put it on yourself."
Elias took the ointment and nodded lightly. "Okay."
