Elinor never thought that Kemp would retort directly just for her careless words and became confused. After she realized his true meaning, she flushed. "Kemp! What are you talking about!"
"Hum!"
He narrowed his eyes with a smile, his face young, as handsome and clean as boys in movies. He said with embarrassment, "You started first!"
She shut up, sipped her lips and washed the vegetables. Wenny was heating the pot aside. After seeing them bickering, she thought it was not a big deal, saying. "You're family. Don't bicker."
"We don't."
Elinor went to Wenny, which suddenly enlarged the distance with Kemp. She said, "Kemp learned something bad. I have to tell my father."
"You can't. You always told Dad!"
He snorted. "Victor must also dislike your behavior."
When Elinor was cutting the ingredients, she was distracted by his words and cut her fingertip with the sharp blade. It was wounded, blood breaking through her tender skin.
It was a deep cut.
The wound stung, and she came out of a trance, looked down, saw the blood on the chopping board and realized she got hurt. She shivered, and Wenny shouted, "Elinor, how did you cut yourself?"
Then Kemp's look changed, and he rushed over, took Elinor's hand put it under the faucet. He roared at her, "Elinor, are you a fool? How can you hurt yourself just when cutting the food?"
He was so fierce that he was not like a 16-year-old boy.
She stared. Before she said, Kemp opened the drawer and dug the band-aid out from it. "Tut-tut, why is so deep? What are you thinking of?"
He scolded her.
He, he didn't mean to scold her.
He never wanted to make her cry.
In his impression, Elinor was as weak and delicate as flowers in a greenhouse that were easy to wither. But he also knew she was stubborn.
She was delicate, but she never cried in front of others. She was usually excluded in school, but no matter what she suffered there, she never showed it.
But at this moment…
Kemp had a feeling of suffocation, and he didn't know the reason.
Perhaps because he made such a weak but strong woman cry.
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