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CHAPTER 316
In contrast to his burnt skin, her small hands felt extremely cold and warm at the same time.
He could not describe the feeling he got from her fingers tracing the outlines of his injury.
It was not until her fingers grazed his injury and he felt something colder press against his skin, that Jareth's conviction was changed drastically.
All she had wanted to do was to heal him and see the wound he so much as tried to hide.
For a minute there, Astrid stood behind him staring at how her powers had burnt his skin from the back of his neck down to his left-hand side just below his scapular.
"Astrid…"
"Shhh." Obeying her command, Jareth shut his mouth and continued waiting for her o do her thing.
"Until when were you planning on hiding this, from me." Her finger made their way upwards to the burnt mark.