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.

nervously fed Quinlyn a pill and some water from her

better. She opened her eyes weakly

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

grass animals for

anything else I can do for you?”

water could make these women extemely

escape.

“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 well.

smile, and closed her

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

as dawn approached. She was

the border, had seen her through many such ordeals without medicine. This time, a simple fever–reducer had done the trick.

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still dizzy from blood loss

the time, then crawled to the cage’s edge and

irritation and came out in his robe. “What do you want so

faint whisper, pleaded, “I have something valuable. If I give it to

anger tempered by curiosity, approached cautiously.

from an auction, which worths two million dollars. It’s around my neck, but

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anything from this angle, but Quinlyn’s description was believable. 2 million dollars was enough for the man

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