When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 376 A Prisoner’s Value

Chapter 376 A Prisoner’s Value

Beth set the food down in front of Natalic.

Natalic finally opened her eyes.

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What awaited her was only a plain bun and a glass of water not even a scrap of vegetables.

Beth mistook her silence for disdain and gave a cold laugh. “Here, unless you’re sold, forget buns – you’ll be lucky to get slop. You should thank that pretty face of yours. If not for that, I wouldn’t bother giving you even this.”

“Why are you helping me?”

Natalie didn’t waste time with pride. She was starving.

Anything that could fill her stomach, she would take.

She asked her question while shoving the bun into her mouth, chewing with the determination of someone who knew she had to keep her strength.

She had caught from Beth and Kasen’s words that she had already been missing for a full day and night. In that time, she had been taken far from Ocean City, all the way out to sea.

Surely Baron had found some trace of her by now.

gnawed at

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the hairpin Baron gave her, the one with a tracker inside. It had fallen on the way to

been carrying it, they might have discovered. it and

chewed while she thought, swallowing down

blinked at how uncomplainingly Natalie ate. When Natalie began to hiccup from the

divided up under different handlers. You happened to be assigned to me. That makes my cargo. Until the auction is over, your safety is mine to ensure. If you my responsibility you sell for a

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She had no illusions of mercy in a place

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her cat without tears or

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you a word of advice as a woman. In the end, serving someone is serving someone- does it matter who? Do you know where you are? This is international waters. The kind of men who attend these auctions are powerful everywhere. With your face and your composure, you could live well under one of them. I’m telling you this because you’re smart. My commission depends on you. But if you don’t cooperate,

through the bulkhead from the next

sound was horribly

being disciplined. We know how to break women without damaging their looks. But we can still

moment before lifting the

She didn’t know if she’d

shrieks from next door made every swallow