"It was nothing much, huh? How do you explain this, then?!" I quickly stood up and grabbed Cloud by the collar, pulling it forward firmly.
"What the hell are you doing, Gael?!" Cloud cried out in alarm as his pulled forward shirt revealed the purple bruises on his back to me.
When I saw the bruises, my breath caught in my throat, and I was filled with rage. I clenched my fist tightly and thundered at him, "Stop moving!"
Cloud stopped struggling and froze up when he heard me and sighed with emotion before he let me lift his shirt. His back and ribs had multiple bruises on them, which painted a really horrific picture. The inflammation made it obvious that these bruises were pretty fresh. The pain in his eyes whenever he moved his hand just now finally made sense to me.
I felt a blazing
