I'll Teach You, Marianne.

Alan carefully applied the creamhe had requested from the hotel staff to treat the bruises. While applying the cream, there was no conversation between him and Anne. They were both lost in their own thoughts. Anne who was still cursing Alan for what he had just done to him. Meanwhile, Alan was still thinking about how Anne could have bruises like that, only because he touched her body a little harder. Even the scars from the hard slap had disappeared from Alan's cheek, but Anne's didn't. The purplish red marks on her body look very suffocating and heartbreaking to anyone who saw them. 

"Okay, you're done. Now go to sleep. I'll ask Nicholas to bring you new clothes," Alan said softly when he was done with his work. 

Anne, who was staring at the window, did not respond to Alan's words. She only tightened her grip on the edge of the blanket she was wearing to cover her naked body. 

Seeing the response that Anne gave made Alan smile bitterly. The sound of a knock on the door made Alan finally get up from the bed, leaving Anne alone. 

"Excuse me sir, this is Madam's luggage." Nicholas politely handed Anne's suitcase to Alan as soon as his master opened the door to his room.

"Thanks Nick," Alan replied curtly.

"Then I'll go now, sir." 

After saying that, Nicholas hurriedly went away from the master's door. He didn't want to disturb the fun of the newlywed couple. Alan went back into his room with Anne's suitcase. 

After being in the room again, Alan looked at Anne who was still sitting with her back to him. "Get some rest, I'm going out for a bit and your clothes are in this suitcase."

Again, Anne did not give any response. She just kept quiet with occasional deep breaths to calm her tears. Because Anne was in such a condition where Alan couldn't talk to, he finally decided to leave Anne. There was an important thing that Alan wanted to ask Doctor Caitlyn about Anne's condition, which he just learned about. 

Wearing his thick jacket, Alan came out of the room. He brought his hotel room key card just in case. Alan didn't want Anne to run away and leave him, especially now that they were at the airport. Alan knew Anne was a smart woman, so he didn't want to take the slightest risk.

As soon as she heard the bedroom door being locked from the outside, Anne immediately turned around and jumped towards the door without wearing any clothes. She hoped that Alan would leave the room key. However, her expectations did not match the reality, because she could not find her hotel room key. Instantly, her whole body went limp when she realized that she was locked up by Alan from the outside. Her hopes of escaping from Alan immediately vanished. With a limp, Anne then walked to the bathroom to clean her body from the remains of Alan's touch. Her puffy eyes were staring back at her very confused self from the reflection of the mirror. 

Her lips were swollen because she had bitten them so hard. The traces of Alan's hand were still clearly visible on her neck, a pathetic purplish red color, not to mention around her breasts that were already filled with Alan's love bites. Anne felt her body with trembling hands. Although previously Alan didn't manage to sleep with her, still she felt dirty with all his touches to her body. Anne was not willing to let her body to be touched again by the man who had become her husband.

"You're evil, Alan, I hate you," said Anne softly in a trembling voice. Tears were falling down again as she remembered what Alan had just done to her in bed. 

Meanwhile, Alan was currently sitting in the hotel restaurant alone. All of his subordinates, including Nicholas, were already resting in their respective rooms. With a cup of coffee, Alan tried to contact Doctor Caitlyn. On the first try, the doctor did not pick up the call. But Alan did not give up. He contacted the doctor again and again, and his call was finally accepted by the doctor on the fourth try. 

"Hello, good evening, young master... is there anything that I can..."

"Is there anyone who can immediately have bruises on her body just because of pressure? Is it dangerous? Is it a deadly disease? Is there a cure? How to treat them? And how to prevent that from happening, Doctor?" 

Alan immediately gave a barrage of questions to Doctor Caitlyn. He took out all his curiosity to Doctor Caitlyn. On the other end of the phone, Doctor Caitlyn, who wasn't ready to accept Alan's questions, was confused. She didn't know which question to answer first. Because all the questions that Alan said didn't sound clear to her, Doctor Caitlyn had the courage to give orders to Alan to repeat his questions one by one clearly. 

Because Alan was very worried about his wife's condition, he finally complied with Caitlyn's doctor's request. Alan then slowly repeated the same questions regarding Anne's worrisome condition. When he spoke, he seemed very worried and Caitlyn managed to catch it. In all these years of serving the Clarkes, Doctor Caitlyn had never heard Alan speak in such a worried tone. Slowly, the kind doctor smiled. 

"There are many things that cause a person to have bruises like that, sir. Apart from the blow or pressure he received was too strong, the condition of his thin and weak skin can cause the marks to be seen very clearly on his body, especially if that person has a fair skin, which will automatically make even the slightest bruises clearly visible on his body. This condition is not dangerous, it's just that, if possible, people who easily have bruises like this shouldn't do too many activities that would hurt their bodies, because bruises like that usually will take a long time to disappear," said Doctor Caitlyn at length. Although Alan didn't say who he was talking about, but the doctor was sure that at the moment, Anne was the subject of their conversation. 

Hearing Doctor Caitlyn's words made Alan silent. He didn't utter a single word. He tried to digest the sentences that the doctor had said to him. 

"The first treatment for people who easily have bruises like that, of course, is to reduce harsh physical contact and if that person already has a lot of bruises on his body, then you can give cream to treat the bruises, sir," added Dr. Caitlyn again. 

"Is a cream like that able to get rid of such bruises, Doc?" Alan asked quietly.

"It won't go away right away, but they can be reduced, sir. But if you're afraid, I'll come right now to..."

"We're on our way to Norway and are transiting in Frankfurt, Doc," said Alan quickly interrupting Doctor Caitlyn's words.

"Oh you're on vacation, okay then. Just do the way I told you, sir, you can compress the bruised area and then put the special cream on them. If you're still worried, tomorrow when you arrive in Norway, you can go to a doctor for a more detailed checkup.," said Doctor Caitlyn again.

Alan smiled at the doctor's words. Not long after, he turned off the call and finished the cold coffee in front of him. Alan rushed back to his room to check on Anne's condition. With his vast experiences with many women, Alan never knew a woman who easily had bruises like Anne. That was why he was a little restless right now.

When Alan entered the room, he smiled when he saw that Anne was fully clothed. With the blanket wrapped around her body, she was fast asleep. He could still see drops of water in the corner of his wife's eyes while she was sleeping.

"I'm sorry Anne, I can't control myself. I'm too afraid to lose you. I also don't know why. Obviously I don't want you to leave me. Since the first time I saw you, I've had a strange feeling well up inside of me. A feeling I've never experienced before," Alan said softly as he smoothed Anne's hair that covered her beautiful face. Seeing Anne like that, there was a very big sense of regret in Alan's heart at the moment.