Chapter 140

Quinlyn curled on the ground, shivering with cold.

Bill, seeing she couldn’t even speak, snorted and left.

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Soon, women with water buckets came from the village. When they saw the scene in the cage, they bit their lips and welled

up.

“Go in, but don’t wet her. It’s cold here at night,” someone whispered. They started chatting softly once they were sure no one was around.

Bill had told the arena–keepers to clean up the dead dogs and blood before tomorrow, so the women had to work late. But they were also worried about Quinlyn not being able to sleep.

As they cleaned, they kept glancing at Quinlyn. When one noticed her flushed face, others gathered around.

“She’s running a fever. It’s hot.”

“It must be the head wound getting infected.”

“But what can we do? Even if we take her to a doctor, he won’t give her medicine.”

The women were all anxious. Flora, the woman who had helped Quinlyn before, bit her lip and left, claiming to get another brush.

to the cage, pretending to clean, and nervously fed Quinlyn a

felt a bit better. She opened her eyes weakly and saw Flora and the bottle. “You’ll

away a tear, glad she was awake. “It doesn’t matter. You made

had woven grass animals for the children,

there anything else I can do for you?”

women extemely scared. However, they still wanted to help

escape.

escape the desert in her condition. “Don’t worry. I won’t die,” she reassured Flora, pointing to herself and whispering slowly, “Remember what I said? I’ll take you horse–riding on the

choked up, not believing it but nodding anyway. “So you must get

managed a smile, and closed

change her clothes, left sadly, seeing her small, bloodied figure under the straw. They wondered what

was still weak but

forged on the border, had seen her through many such ordeals without

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she was still dizzy from blood loss

raised her head to the gray sky, gauging the time, then crawled to the

roused from his sleep in the nearby shed, growled in irritation and came out in his robe. “What do you want so

have something valuable. If I give it to

tempered by curiosity, approached cautiously.

my neck, but I can’t reach it.” Quinlyn tilted her chin, revealing

\tilted

2 million dollars was enough for the man to live happily for his whole life in a city, and he knew some emerald really

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