The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He (Lily and John) novel Chapter 250

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.

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!”

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Chapter 250 Burned With Fever

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.

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