Sweet as Always
Alec was dead serious while tending to Lauren. When he saw the bruises on her arms and wrists, he imagined punishing those responsible for it by breaking their limbs one after another.
The small cut on Lauren's face was healed by a healing spell but the bruises needed to be tended by a healer mage or else it would take days to heal, so Alec told a servant to call for a physician.
After she was tended by the physician, Lauren had a warm bath to wash out the dirt and the reek of blood from her body. Although she didn't have an open wound, the red chamber had a strong reek of blood and even the tub of water she was drowned in was mixed with blood. Recalling the events that transpired that day, she felt drained.
"You were supposed to return this evening or tomorrow morning. I heard from the king," Lauren said after she bathed and found Alec on the balcony, drinking blood from a glass. She was in a thick robe while wiping her hair with a towel.