"Ouch! Can you be a little gentle?"
I hissed in pain when Alderic pressed the cold compress against my bruised cheek. He looked apologetically at me, blowing at my cheek and I shivered as something inside me simmered. I was feeling warm inside my heart. But cold outside.
"I am being gentle, Theo. You just got slapped pretty badly." Alderic replied to me and I huffed at how embarrassingly true he was being.
"You know, you can be a little considerate about me being slapped. You don't have to be so blatant about it. It's embarrassing enough that I got slapped in the first place. And what's more humiliating is that a mere slap has caused swelling to my face."
I said and he snorted, removing the cold compress from my face and I let out a sigh of relief when the torturous cold compress w
