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“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.
Lily’s heart leapt straight into her throat.
Voices cursed and muttered, drawing closer.
“What the hell is this?”
She froze.
Even her breath stopped.
“Ow! F*ck! Thorns-damn things stabbed me!”
There were thorns all over those bare jujube branches. The men must have walked right into one
Then came the sound of something being kicked hand.
“Damn it! That hurt! I’ll kick your ass?”
“Stop kicking! There’s thorns all over the place-keep it up and you’ll just keep getting stabbed!”
“Forget it. Focus! We need to find James and that bitch. F’m gonna skin them alive tonight!
Lily clamped her hands tightly over her nose and mouth, too scared to even blink
The footsteps crept closer.
She could hear the sound of branches being broken and moved aside.
She’d stacked rocks over the entrance, but if they pushed aside the branches and looked closely, they’d see through the cover in a heartbeat.
James was still unconscious. She had no way to fight these people off by herself.
She didn’t even want to imagine what would happen to them if they were caught.
“Hey! Look!
Lily shrank back, pressing herself flat against the cold stone wall of the cave.
She was sure the next second those rocks would be torn down and those monsters would burst inside.
“There’s a rabbit! In this freezing cold, there’s actually a rabbit up here!”
“Forget the damn rabbit! Keep looking! That bastard James and his little slut must be hiding ahead- there’s thicker brush that way!”
The voices faded gradually.
Lily finally exhaled-long and slow.
With the entrance blocked, the air inside the cave was hear headed from how little oxygen there was
But she didn’t dare move the rocks yet.
What if they doubled back?
She and James would have nowhere to run. and stale. She was starting to feel light-
Almost like her fears summoned them, the voices returned not long after.
The men wandered around the area for another ten minutes, cursing and stomping, before finally leaving again.
Lily waited another full half hour, completely still in the dark, before she carefully pried loose the topmost rock she’d stacked.
“James, wake up…”
The immediate danger had passed. She turned on her phone’s flashlight and knelt beside James, checking his condition carefully.
After the accident years ago that left him in a coma, Blanc had spent a fortune having all their family cars. reinforced and upgraded.
It must’ve paid off-James’ head showed no visible injuries.
His white dress shirt wasn’t stained with blood, either.
His black slacks were soaked, but Lily wasn’t about to strip them off to check for injuries. Even if he was hurt, it clearly wasn’t life-threatening.
After a quick check, she let out a small breath of relief.
But seeing him lying there, eyes shut tight, still not waking up, made her stomach twist with worry.
Sometimes people looked fine after an accident-but their internal organs or brain could be seriously damaged.
Please don’t be one of those cases. Please…
“James, wake up.”
She gently patted his face.
Her fingertips brushed his forehead-and froze.
He was burning up. Scorching hot.
He was still wearing soaked clothes….
As night fell, the damp fabric clung to him and grew colder by the minute. He was burning up with fever if he kepi wearing those wet clothes, it would only make things worse.
She knew better than anyone, he hated physical contact with her, especially when it came to undressing. But the situation was urgent. She couldn’t afford to care about that now. Maybe someone had stayed in this cave not too long ago; there were actually quite a few bundles of dry grass and firewood scattered around.
Lily pushed aside a stone near the cave entrance and piled up some wood, using the dry fire. grass to spark a
She hadn’t gone into the water herself, but after carrying him for so long, the back of her coat was soaked through too.
After hanging her coat near the fire to dry, she turned to strip off his clothes and dry them as quickly as possible.
There was no signal here, she couldn’t get a call through at all. Back in the car, when she had called Ashton and the others, she’d told them that if she managed to find James, there was a good chance they’d be in a cave like this.
But Ashton and the others had never been to this area; she had no idea when they might actually find her and James. The conditions here were rough, she had to do everything she could to keep both of them alive until help arrived.
She felt incredibly grateful that she always kept some basic medicine in her bag.
She slipped an ibuprofen tablet into James’ mouth, then crouched down in front of him, ready to peel off his soaking shirt.
“James, I don’t mean to offend you,” she whispered, unbuttoning his shirt. “Your clothes are completely soaked, they’re freezing cold. You’re burning up, keeping those on will only make your fever worse. I need to dry them off.”
The firelight flickered across the cave walls; in its glow, Lily could see James’ face clearly.
Compared to usual, his complexion looked paler,
But it didn’t make him look any less striking. That kind of ethereal paleness only made his features appear even more otherworldly-unrealistically beautiful.
Still, this wasn’t the time to be admiring his looks.
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