The Duke’s Substitute Bride is a Maid - Chapter 32

Chapter 32: Show The Love

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
When Ronald pounced onto the soldier, he also took a strike on his back and had a long wound there.
Ronald returned to the barracks and took off his shirt. Irene looked at the densely packed wounds and felt her heart throb in pain.
She had actually touched these wounds on the bed before, but seeing them directly for the first time was still shocking.
Irene looked at the bloody wound that extended from his right shoulder to his left lower back. It was still bleeding.
Irene’s hand that held the cotton ball could not stop trembling. She didn’t dare to do it because she was afraid of hurting him.
Ronald did not feel Irene’s action of applying the medicine. He looked back in confusion and saw Irene lowering her head to cover her face and sobbing. He held Irene’s face with both hands. “Why are you crying? I won’t die.”
Irene looked at his pale lips and felt her heart ache even more. She pulled his shoulders back. “Don’t move. I’ll apply the medicine for you.”
Ronald’s back was facing her, but he was still comforting her, “These are all flesh wounds. I’m okay, really.” Ronald seemed to be smiling. “I still remember when I was young, my father got injured one time. My mother was like you, crying and applying the medicine onto my father. Later on, when I grew up, I saw a lot of spilled blood and human sacrifices, and slowly became numb. I didn’t expect that there would be a woman like my mother one day.”
Irene had already wiped the blood stains beside the wound clean. She slowly applied medicine and bandages on the wound. As she listened to Ronald talk about his father and mother’s past, she suddenly asked, “Does your mother love your father?”
“Of course. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have traveled across the sea alone and followed Father here.”
Before Ronald could finish his words, Irene had already turned his face toward her and planted a deep kiss on his lips. “I love you.”
Ronald looked at Irene’s small face, which was still wet with tears, and asked uncertainly, “What did you say?”
He had always felt that he was a robber. He had forced Irene to stay by his side, so he had never thought that Irene would fall in love with him.
He thought that he was hearing things.
“I. Love. You.” This time, Irene spoke very slowly. Each and every word hit Ronald right in his heart.
If he had known that getting injured would end up like this, he would have scratched himself on the back.
Ronald used his left arm to pull Irene into his embrace and kissed her deeply.
Both countries had suffered heavy losses in this battle. Even if Ronald wanted to end the battle quickly, he was unable to do so.
On the second day, Murcia met up with Celt. George had not returned yet. Ronald sat by the bed and looked at Irene’s sleeping face. “Has Murcia’s army arrived?”
“Yes,” Wen Shaoqing answered from the side.
Ronald planted a kiss on Irene’s forehead. “When she wakes up, send her to Murcia’s tent. I don’t want to make things difficult for her.”
“What about you? Murcia has a large army. It’s almost impossible for you to win just by relying on the bravery of your men.”
Ronald looked at Irene again. “Do as I say.” After saying that, he got up and left.
Wen Shaoqing looked at Ronald’s back as he left, then at Irene. Irene slowly opened her eyes.
“You heard everything?”
Irene looked at the ceiling above her. “Do you want your brother to win?”
“Of course.”
Irene looked at George with determination in her eyes. “Then do as I say.”
Irene whispered something into George’s ear.
After listening, Wen Shaoqing hesitated for a while. “Okay.”