Earlier, she had not realized how vast this woods was, and to think that this was still a part of the Main Mansion territory made her feel like it was a whole vast town in itself.
Ella squatted in front of Adrian and pressed her hand on his wound. As the blood seeped through the gap between her fingers, her hand trembled slightly.
The sight of crimson brought back the memories of her past life, "There is too much blood..." She stood up in a flash.
The moment she turned around, Adrian grabbed her hand.
"I am fine," He began to pull up the sleeve of his riding suit.
Ella looked over her shoulder, but she did not let her gaze wander off his eyes, "I don’t know when they will find us. Let me go..."
Adrian’s brows tugged together.
"Adrian, do you trust me?"
Adrian’s grip did not budge from her wrist.
Ella raised a brow.
The man sighed and released her hand, "Don’t go too far. There are traps ahead."
But one couldn’t tell if Ella heard him or not. Because the moment he released her hand, she vanished into the darkness.
Adrian’s brows remained knit together as he glanced at the direction in which she left.
But only after she was out of his sight did his face reveal a hint of pain.
Adrian leaned back on the trunk of the tree and pinched his lips into a thin line.
’Neigh’
The black horse approached Adrian and nuzzled his face on his shoulder twice before it lowered its body and sat on the ground.
Soon, there was the sound of approaching footsteps.
Adrian looked up at Ella who dropped to her knees in front of him.
Ella unzipped her riding jacket and took out fists of leaves.
Adrian looked at her questioningly.
"Earlier when the horse had gone mad, I was looking for a safe spot to jump. This... I spotted a patch of wild marigold flowers nearby. The leaves will stop the bleeding to some extent and also act as a disinfectant..." As she spoke she put a mouthful of leaves in her mouth.
Her face contorted a little.
Adrian grabbed her chin, "You..."
Ella chewed it and spat it in her hand, "You might find it a little disgusting, baby... But just hang in there. I can’t have you chew up these unwashed leaves..."
Ella sighed in her heart. At the end of the day, Adrian was a pampered princess from the core.
One who was a germaphobe. She would be sinning by letting him do these things.
She applied the paste of leaves carefully on his wound, "Baby, just hold it for a while. Later, you will wash up properly..."
Even for herself, it would be disgusting if somebody applied their saliva on her body. For a germaphobe like Adrian, it would be a torment.
But while she was focused on the wound, she did not see the calmness on Adrian’s face. There was not even a hint of disgust in his eyes that just remained fixated on her.
After a couple of seconds, Ella wiped her sweat with the back of her hand, looking at Adrian’s wound that was properly covered in the paste.
Although the wound looked bloody and garish, there were only small claw marks there. And lucky for her, the bleeding slowed down quite a lot.
"There is the horse too..." Ella moved to take another mouthful of the leaves in her mouth when the fistful of leaves suddenly disappeared from her hand.
Ella looked at Adrian in disbelief as he put the ’unwashed’ and ’unclean’ leaves in his mouth, chewed it without a single change in his expression and then applied it on the black horse’s hind legs.
It was only after he returned to his sitting spot did she snap out of her shock.
After recovering from what she just witnessed, Ella finally remembered to ask, "This woods is a part of the Main Mansion, right?"
Adrian nodded once.
"Then why would there be traps here? And what kind of traps are they?"
Adrian paused for a brief moment before he explained it.
As it turned out, these traps were set in the woods after some previous incidents.
The King Family had many enemies and sometimes, they would hire assassins or such kind to invade the Main Mansion, which was no less than the representative of the King’s Family legacy.
It was very hard to breach the boundaries of the main mansion because it was guarded from all sides.

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