When There Is Nothing Left But Love (Ashton And Scarlett)

Chapter 642

A reactionary creature like this was even more fearful when it sprang into action.

It’s going to get Tessa! I hastily picked up the branch I’d spotted earlier on the ground and jabbed its sharp side at the snake.

Thankfully, that single thrust pierced through the snake’s mid-section and successfully pinned it down.

Its head and tail, however, remained wriggling furiously.

Tessa was still recovering from her fright. Anger and shock coursed through her, forming a volatile mix of emotions.

She picked up the stone that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing firmly down on the snake’s head.

Its head thus maimed; the snake seemed to be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed it with a few successive blows.

Blood splattered everywhere. Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been utterly reduced to bits of mangled flesh.

The other girls looking on turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s getting late, and we should get moving.”

As we slowly forged our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain was ancient and teeming with rich, bountiful wildlife.

settle down to eat and drink. No matter what else happened to us,

we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing

apples?” Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had left her face flushed and

“It’s grown in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick them all and bring them along for something

a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten

rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally

a few attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below,

ate any fruits she’d

head. She’d

surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That made me nervous! Let me eat

then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued picking them up in her ungainly

“What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that

shrugged in

Once

time discussing trivial matters? These girls can be so flippant

that we had enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe

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