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

and muttered, drawing

hell is

She froze.

Even her breath stopped.

Thorns–damn things stabbed

13

Burned

over those bare jujube branches. The men

sound of something being

hurt! I’ll kick your

the place–keep it up and you’ll

James and that bitch. F’m gonna skin

her hands tightly over her nose and mouth, too

The footsteps crept closer.

the sound of branches being

if they pushed aside the branches and looked closely, they’d

no way to fight

even want to imagine what would happen to them if

“Hey! Look!

shrank back, pressing herself flat against

would be torn down and those

a rabbit! In this freezing cold, there’s actually a rabbit

and his little slut must be hiding

The voices faded gradually.

exhaled–long and

blocked, the air inside the cave was

little

dare move the rocks

they

would

was starting to