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 clean, and nervously fed Quinlyn a pill and some

her eyes weakly and saw Flora and the bottle. “You’ll get

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

grass animals for

I can

make these women extemely scared.

escape.

knew she couldn’t 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

believing it but nodding anyway.

nodded, managed a smile, and

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

She was still weak but had broken the fever.

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

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dizzy from blood loss and her vision swam.

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

in the nearby shed, growled in irritation and came out in his robe. “What do you want so carly? Are you

voice a faint whisper, pleaded, “I have something valuable. If I give it to you, will you let me go?”

tempered by curiosity, approached

dollars. It’s around my neck, but I can’t reach

\tilted

2 million dollars was enough for the man to live happily for

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