Trapped in Chain Love
Injuries in the heart.

...Elise has stolen Nicolas' heart many times. Julian always treated her like he didn't want her, so right if he expected to have her? ...

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"Aw!"

Elise grimaced as one of her fingernails slipped off due to a cardboard box containing a pile of unused paper. He returned to work as usual after Julian scolded him earlier, more precisely yelling at him and accusing him of being a design impersonator.

He closed his eyes, trying to hold back the pain from the wound on his nail. Blood began to flow, along with Elise's tears that melted like blood on her nails.

The detached nail was the reason for her crying over Julian's unfair treatment of her.

Luckily no one saw Elise crying at this time because she was behind the office to throw away the unused paper. Elise crouched down while crying, until she didn't realize someone was standing behind her.

"I was surprised to hear someone's groaning during the day, I thought it was a ghostly apparition"

Elise flinched when she heard that familiar voice. He stood up, then his gaze was immediately fixed on the bespectacled man in front of him who was smiling faintly.

"I'm sorry"

The word was automatically thrown from his mouth. Immediately, Elise rubbed the rest of her tears that were still flowing.

"Why are you apologizing?" He asked again as he walked closer.

"Because of crying during the day?" Elise answered plainly. Actually he did not know why he apologized to the man, maybe because of the reflex caught when crying eating him so this way.

"That's not even a mistake" The man chuckled. Because Elise's somewhat carefree expression looks funny.

The bespectacled man, Nicolas Anelka, wiped the face of Elise who was still wet with tears. Elise was somewhat surprised even though she did not reject the treatment.

"You know. We must not apologize for mistakes we did not make, It will only make them not learn from their mistakes" he said, ending with a knotty smile.

Elise felt de javu with Nicolas' words.*(That was Elise's words spoken on Noise in "Warm bell") Then she chuckles a little. Right, he shouldn't be like this.

"But, what's with your hands?" His eyes glanced towards the hand of Elise covering his finger. Because of this chatter for a moment he had forgotten about the wound he had.

"This—stinded the cardboard earlier."

The short answer made Nicolas flinch, then his eyes looked back where there was a rather large cardboard alias of the perpetrator from the wound on Elise's finger.

"Can I see it?"

Elise nodded briefly. He raised his hand, revealing a wound on his fingernail that was still bleeding. The pain he felt again, when he had not felt anything.

Nicolas touches the wound on Elise's finger carefully because she is afraid to hurt him. The look behind his glasses looked beautiful, as if he was the owner of the wound.

"How did this happen? you're so careless Elise." There was a worried tone in his words, even those brownish eyes were staring gently at Elise while the woman he was worried about instead laughed awkwardly.

Actually Elise was quite thorough but somehow now she was even careless to make him hurt while working.

"It's okay, really"

He reassures his co-worker, but it seems Nicolas can't be convinced just by saying It's okay.

"We're going to the clinic now" he said firmly.

"Eh?"

Elise. Not that they can go to the health room in the office? why bother to go to a clinic a little far away from the office? That was Elise's mind at the moment.

"I'll drive you"

"But I can just go to the infirmary."

"No. Such injuries should go to the clinic, so please allow me to take you there"

Elise wanted to reject him but she was uncomfortable if she had to reject Nicolas' kindness twice. That's why he agreed.

"This will hold him until we get to the clinic, please be careful next time okay?"

Nicolas bandaged Elise's injured finger using a tissue. It's a little useless, but Elise appreciates the efforts of her colleague and then thanks him.

Nicolas. Not directly answering Elise's words, a moment later she muttered briefly.

"sorry" he said. He wasn't even looking at Elise.

"For what?" The one who did him wrong was not Nicolas but Julian.

"I'm sorry I couldn't defend you. Though I knew that design was yours, I should have proved it to Julian"

There was a sense of relief when Nicolas managed to say that to Elise. He wanted to comfort her at this moment, hoping that by doing so the wound in Elise's heart could be reduced.

"I'm fine. It's not your fault" Elise paused her words for a moment. He looked at Nicolas straight, then a smile gushed across his face "Maybe he can humiliate me now, but I won't let him next time! relax!"

His words sounded very confident and confident. Right, this is how Elise he knew not too long ago.

'You are very radiant even when you have a bad thing'

It felt like the feeling Nicolas had was growing when he was with Elise. A feeling he shouldn't have, but he couldn't block that feeling from entering his heart.

Elise has stolen Nicolas' heart many times. Julian treated her like he didn't want her, so right if he expected to have her?

'I can only hope. But, continue to help her while in trouble I'm fine'

At least she can be a leaning place for Elise.

"really. You can't let him act like he does later, if he's like that I'll help you" Nicolas walked ahead of Elise. They were about to head to the parking lot because Elise went to the clinic in Nicolas's car.

"So you're on my side?" The woman in the light brown coat followed the man. The air grew colder as he spoke.

"Of course" The answer is short but firm.

"But you're Julian's friend?"

"If he acts wrong then I won't defend him even if we are friends. I always held to that principle,"

Elise looked at Nicolas in awe. He thought because they were friends that whatever Julian did would be supported by him, even if it was a bad and wrong thing.

"That's great. If necessary you should slap her face that slap,"

Nicolas chuckles amusedly. Had Elise wanted to slap Julian in the face so much that she recommended him to Nicolas?

"Do you really want to slap her?" The question was spontaneous he asked Elise. The green-eyed lady nodded briefly, although she was a bit hesitant at first.

"He sucks"

"I agree. Sometimes he sucks," Nicolas paused for a moment. "But he has a good side"

"Yes. He's handsome but his nature is not"

Nicolas again laughed at Elise's overly honest words. But her heart was slightly pinched, Elise praised Julian's appearance, it made her feel a bit jealous.

"What about me?"

Elise who was just sitting in the front seat of the car gasped. He looked at the man, then asked.

"What?"

"My face, am I handsome too?" Nicolas was embarrassed to ask that question. All this time she had not cared much about what people thought of her face, but right now she really wanted to know how Elise thought of her face.

"Handsome"

"yes?" He doubted his hearing. Elise smiled faintly, then answered Nicolas question once more.

"You are also handsome. You're even good, I'm sure your lover will be happy when you're with you"

Nicolas throttled short. It feels like the air temperature in the car is very hot, even though he has not turned on his car AC.

'Thank you dad for lowering your good looks on me,'