The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

Chapter 250 Burned With Fever

“Those footprints are too small. They don’t look like James. Could someone have rescued him?”

The men suddenly let out low, sinister laughs,

“Well, isn’t that interesting? Someone came to die with him!”

“A woman, huh… After all the work we’ve done, once we find James, she’ll make a nice little bonus”

“Yeah, that nosey bitch–should’ve minded her own business. I’m gonna kill her myself!

Lily’s skin crawled at the sound of their cruel, malicious voices.

She could make out at least a dozen different voices. If she and James ended up in their hands

There’d be no escape. They’d wish they were dead.

Thankfully, while the patch of dirt where she found James was wet enough to leave footprints, it hadn’t rained or snowed recently. The rest of the mountain ground was dry, covered with layers of fallen grass and leaves. Once she’d lifted James and moved off the riverbank, she’d walked only on the dry grass. Hopefully, no more prints had been left behind.

Near the cave, a few wild jujube trees stood bare of leaves.

At first, she’d thought about stuffing dry grass into the cave’s entrance as camouflage.

But all the ground around was stone and dirt. A big pile of grass would only stand out more. In the end, she decided to use rocks to block the entrance instead.

There were plenty of rocks scattered nearby. The cave entrance was small, which helped. Gritting her teeth, she dragged over a few larger stones and stacked them to form a crude barrier. Then she bent a few branches from the jujube trees around the pile for extra cover.

It didn’t look perfect–but at a glance, it blended in well enough.

She prayed the men wouldn’t spot anything odd.

“Sh t

Footsteps crunched outside the cave not long after.

heart leapt straight into her

cursed and

hell is

She froze.

Even her breath stopped.

Thorns–damn things

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all over those bare jujube branches. The men must

of something

it! That hurt! I’ll

kicking! There’s thorns all over the place–keep it up and

find James and that bitch. F’m

her hands tightly over her nose and mouth, too scared to even

The footsteps crept closer.

sound of branches being

rocks over the entrance, but if they pushed aside the branches and looked closely, they’d see through the cover in

no way

imagine what would happen

“Hey! Look!

back, pressing herself flat against the cold stone wall of

those rocks would be torn down and

this freezing cold, there’s actually a rabbit

bastard James and his little slut must

The voices faded gradually.

finally exhaled–long and

entrance blocked, the air inside the cave was

little oxygen there

she didn’t dare move

if they doubled

and James would have

was starting to feel