Forced Marriage: Thirteenth Wife
24. Compensation for Wounds

In the end, the one who accompanied Elios was his mother. He helped her eat too.

Roxanne decides to resign in order to give them time together, as well as he must go down to take anti-pain medication from the doctor.

While standing in the mirror of his room, Roxanne sees clearly Elios' strangulation. Her skin is not blue, but purple. His scalp was actually hurting because of Elios' actions.

Even so, Roxanne even felt this was not how much.

The weirdness of this house is still not how he knows.

About Arkas and Elios wanting to kill each other, about Elios having a strange trauma about the wrongdoing, about Elios calling his own mother a slave, then also about the fact Elios and his twin are lovers.

Arkas says it's been around since he was a hundred years ago. Well then, Madame Medea must know, right?

"Roxanne's."

Roxanne's attention immediately turned to the door, where her mother Elios was standing. Because the bandage wanted him to change and had not had time, Roxanne hurriedly pulled the shawl to cover it up.

"Yes, Mistress?"

"How are you doing?"

I think he doesn't care, Roxanne thought quite astonished. "I'm fine."

The woman looked at him for a while, watching Roxanne's neck covered in scarves. "How much?"

"I'm sorry?"

"Compensation for your wounds. How many?"

He wants to pay? Not blaming Roxanne but paying for it?

"What's necessary?" asked Roxanne calmly.

After experiencing many things, he inevitably learns to behave better.

"I mean, you don't have to pay for it. It's my job because you brought me to this."

While it may sound sarcastic, Roxanne is sincere. Indeed, he had convinced himself that even if he was brought to be beaten, as long as he got the money, Roxanne would be silent.

Besides, it's his fault. He who lured Elios and believed in the trap of Elios' other wives.

"I'm not doing you any good. Besides, I know you're the one who got Elios punished."

"I'm sorry for that, Madam."

"It's not a kindness." The madam looked at him haughtily. "It's between profit and loyalty."

"You mean?"

"You and whoever move on their own desires. So keep serving Elios even if he has done bad. In exchange, I will compensate you for all the injuries you received."

So in other words he bought Roxanne's loyalty? In order that he may obey, that he may remain silent, that he may receive all treatment, in return he gives money.

"Then" Roxanne doesn't have to be awkward if it's a business, "please give my mother a home. Two-story house is enough. The yard doesn't need to be big as long as one car and a small park can fit."

"All right."

"Thank you, Madam."

The woman turned around, a sign she had come just to ask for compensation. But, before he actually left, he suddenly turned his head back.

"That woman, she's not your real mother, is she?"

"Yes, Madam."

"Why did you give everything?"

Roxanne's quiet. Not knowing why he could only keep quiet, even until the Big Madam left without forcing him to answer.

Roxanne's gaze was again fixed on the mirror. On the scar of the purple stranglehold on his neck that was about to break, a price for a two-story house for his mother.

She is not a good woman, Roxanne whispered to her. Maybe I just liked it a little. Not love, especially love.

But ....

Only Mom I have.

If there was no Mother, there was nothing Roxanne had in the world. Therefore, even a little like, without love or affection, it is enough.

In fact, I never left Roxanne.

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"Wasn't it," the sound of the cup being placed on his plate was a small gesture of concern, "there is always a punishment for the insult to the Young Master?"

The one who said that was Mariana and the one who received that remark was Graean. In that room, most of Elios' wives gathered, except those who felt unwilling to participate in the conflict.

Diane was among them.

"You let someone insult Young Master? Just ask to take care of her? Why is First Madam so kind now?"

Graean. "For now I avoid the commotion. The condition of the Young Master is bad."

"Does that mean insulting?"

Diane observed the expressions of the other wives.

They don't want to just let Roxanne go. Because in their position, Roxanne is like getting special privileges while they are not.

But it seems Graean wants to remain silent.

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