Sorry For Hurting You's

The Realness of Ell

The sunlight in the morning began to fill the room, waking Alice who was in the same position as last night.

Slowly he opened his eyes.

As his eyes opened perfectly, he was shocked to see the scene before him.

Until Alice immediately got out of bed but fell because the blanket was still wrapped around her body.

"Well..."

Alice began to feel pain in her leg wounds.

Honestly, he was not fully aware.

Ell awoke to the sound of Alice's pain.

He looked around and found Alice on the floor.

He approached the girl who looked in pain.

"Alice, are you okay?" asked Ell with a worried face.

Alice looked at Ell's face closely.

Sure enough, he was not fully aware.

He forgot that the two of them slept together last night.

"Alice, wounds?"

Ell took Alice's wounds seriously.

She was afraid that Alice's wounds were getting worse.

Ell then raised her gaze on Alice's face which looked at her meaningfully.

"Tell me, did you fall out of bed earlier?

Are you delirious or did I make you fall?"

"I..

I was just surprised to see Big Brother's face sleeping in front of me.

I forgot until I fell down.

I feel stupid now."

This incident was none other than himself.

Ell chuckled at Alice's reply.

Alice must be surprised to wake up from her sleep with their position fairly close.

"No, you're not stupid.

It's only natural that you're surprised like that.

And we've never slept together before.

A girl will not get used to having a man in the same bed with her.

But the difference is that we're Husband's wife."

Ell looked at Alice once more.

"It's okay.

You don't have to blame yourself.

You'll get used to it."

Alice did not understand what Ell had just said.

"I mean Brother?"

"none.

Now we treat your wounds again.

Looks like you fell pretty hard earlier."

Ell then turns Alice to the sofa.

He brought the medicine town and treated Alice's wounds.

Alice's blood came out quite a lot.

It seemed like the girl had indeed fallen quite hard earlier.

Just like yesterday, again Ell took the initiative herself to clean Alice's wounds and bandage them again.

Although Alice had tried to resist but the man still kekeh did it.

"It's done.

After this we have breakfast outside and return to Jakarta ", said Ell still in a squatting position.

Alice smiled and then nodded her head.

"Thank you, brother.."

Ell's forehead wrinkled after hearing Alice's expression of gratitude.

"Thank you for that?"

"Thank you for everything.."

Ell smiled.

As usual, Alice always thanked him for what he did.

But immediately he realized that it was natural that Alice was like that because all this time the people around him including himself made Alice like a burden for anyone.

"You don't have to thank Alice.

I did it because I wanted to.

I will no longer do what I've done before to you" he said with nanar.

Alice had suffered enough all this time.

Now she realizes that Alice is a strong girl.

She has been treated badly by many since she was a child even while she was still in the womb.

Her mother once told her that many people did not want her birth just yet.

His uncle died and not long after his mother also left and has not returned.

That girl is so strong, that's a fitting nickname for someone like Alice.

As of this moment, he saw the girl still able to smile sincerely even after what she had experienced yesterday.

Ell stood up and approached Alice.

"Now you change clothes,

I'll wait outside."

"Hem, good Brother."

"Do I need to help you?"

"No need Brother." said Alice quickly.

Ell just chuckled at Alice's reply.

"Alright, if you don't want to."

He then took his foot out of the room.

After the man completely walked out of there, Alice let out a sigh of relief.

It was enough all night he had to control himself.

Especially after the incident this morning and ended Ell back to treat the wound.

Alice slowly started to smile as she imagined that.

The feeling was so calm considering the relationship and Ell had been very good.

And yesterday, that was beyond what he thought.

Did Ell and I sleep together?

Even Ell insists that he has no regrets at all about what he is doing.

Did something happen that was beyond her expectations?

Nope, no. He does not want to think too far.

His mind makes no sense at all.

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Ell stands in the garden of the villa.

He checked email notifications on his phone, but occasionally looked at his room not far from there.

"All.."

A familiar voice sounded behind Ell.

Not long after, he turned his body.

And sure enough, the owner of that voice is Kate.

Kate stood before him with a difficult look.

"Ell, how's Alice doing?"

The look of sadness on Kate's face and Ell knew Kate must be so disappointed with her mother.

"He's getting better.

It's just that the wound must continue to be treated like what the Doctor said yesterday."

"I feel so guilty about what Alice has been through.

I didn't expect my mother to do such a bad thing to Alice.

Even I couldn't sleep all night thinking about it."

Kate is sad to remember what her mother did last night to Alice.

"You're right Kate.

You can tell how Alice felt when she was alone in the woods.

Even Aunty still blamed him when everyone was worried about his condition."

Ell took a deep breath while looking the other way and then looked at Kate.

"Auntie's been doing bad things ever since Alice came into our family.

We both saw Kate.

Honestly I feel guilty for often rejecting his presence at that time and also had time to blame for what I experienced.

Marriage is not her fault at all.

I just realized that I really wanted to save her just like I did last night.

I fooled myself Kate."

Kate looked at Ell's face.

There was so much sincerity on the man's face when he said his sentence earlier.

He knows that man so well.

Ell really seriously said it.

"I felt so guilty that I didn't want anything else to happen to her.

I want to take care of him." added Ell again with a look of face when getting serious.

Kate was surprised by Ell's words.

He looked at the man's face with a stern look.

"Ell, you.."

"I really wanted to do it Kate" Ell said, insisting she was serious.

Kate's tears fell after hearing Ell's statement.

Her heart was beating so fast even though she knew that she was going to be number one for Ell.

Ell has always prioritized herself over anything.

But hearing that, made him quite worried.

No, it was only in his mind.

Because after hearing Ell's words earlier, the man only felt guilty towards Alice so as not to want anything bad to happen again to his sister.

He should not have to worry and instead be happy because Alice avoids the evil deeds of her mother.

"Ell, you're supposed to do that.

Alice can't have that bad thing anymore.

He has suffered so much.

And most importantly, for a while Alice must not deal with Mother anymore.

Dad, me and the others were so disappointed in Mom.

Hopefully this time I'll be aware of what he's doing"

"I wish Kate was, too.

But after a lot of things happened to Alice, I don't think Auntie will be that easy to accept Alice and stop doing bad things to her.

It's lucky Alice doesn't live there so there's less chance of Aunt meeting Alice."

"Yes I know it's Ell.

I hope that after you and Alice split up, I've changed.

And I hope there's no more past-related problems in our family."

Split up?

To be honest, lately his separation with Alice never again crossed Ell's mind.

He even forgot how his life and Alice's life was before they got married.

Is it because she and Alice have lived together long enough to make themselves forget about it?

Or is there something else?

And the long sentence was really expressed to Kate.

The expression that wanted to keep Alice out just like that in front of Kate, the girl she had loved all along.

What really happened to him?