Chapter 753

Chapter 98 : He’s in Bad Shape

“If you’re here for food, why didn’t you ask?” I called down to the sad group.

“You think we’re stupid? It’s not like you would just give it to us. We know that you’re bloodthirsty leeches!” the crying boy’s mother shouted.

I closed the window and looked at Soren.

“Mila…”

“They’re hungry. We have the food.”

“You can’t go out there.”

“Watch me!”

I hurried out of the room and down to the kitchens. It wasn’t much, but I grabbed some loaves of bread.

Through the walls, I heard the women shouting at me.

“I knew it! I knew it!

“You selfish, greedy freak!”

“You’re hoarding it all to yourself!”

When I opened the front door, they all stopped talking. I went to the kids and tore off chunks of bread, passing them out. They stopped crying immediately when they took bread from me and quickly started chewing on it.

Soon, the air was filled with the sound of munching and crunching from the hard crust of the bread.

I made sure each child got some, ignoring the adults.

“Take it slow. If you’re too hungry, eating fast will make you sick,” I warned.

The boy that started all the crying blushed when I patted his head.

All the adults were dead silent, staring at me as I checked on the children. Even if they wanted to hurt me, I was in no danger. They were too shocked and awed to do anything to me.

Soren came out onto the lawn. I was a little surprised he hadn’t rushed out right after me.

The women closest to him trembled and cowered away from him.

“My apologies,” he said, nodding his head to the crowd. “Had we known that you’d run out of food, we would have acted sooner. I have my men preparing soup now. Come inside and eat. With everyone here, we can recalculate how much food is left and daily rations to make sure it lasts as long as possible.”

Soren held his arm out toward the pack house door.

Murmurs went through the crowd and I saw the way they looked at each other. They were suspicious, like we were inviting them into a trap of some kind.

None of them said anything. They stared at Soren and they stared at me. I understood their reluctance to accept our help but I hoped they would, for the sake of the kids.

door and suddenly, they all perked up. Licking their lips and salivating, they headed

Soren and I followed.

his warriors had the tables set and

in days, something light like this was the best option. They needed to take it slow, give their bodies time to digest

came down and sat next to me. She plopped her soup down, staring at me like I’d pounce

Miss

recognized him. He was the one that first started crying and complaining about being hungry. He sat close to the woman

call me Mila. It is nice

I have some more soup, Mila?” he

first. Having

and

I reached into my pocket, pulling out a

something

up and he smiled, lifting the candy to his face. He opened his mouth like he was going to pop it right in but then he stopped. He kept it in the wrapper and put it in

may I ask you a

“Yeah, okay.”

to him. She was

We thought the intruders didn’t care about food or

up at the woman next to

sniffed. “Because those bastards dumped our

the looters from the other packs and even some of

with them but they destroyed as much as they could… They burned our storehouses, shredded our perishables, and dumped all our produce into the muddy river. They came into our houses and ransacked them

my brow. “How did the pack house

look on his face, he’d been listening in. He took my hand and held it in

already sent our men here as a temporary headquarters.

all of them! Of course, they would bully the

just to be

to the woman across

destroyed the food so they

thing to do. It was a slow way to

through the trouble of dumping

Soren was reading my mind, he

“Because they were afraid.”

back, it didn’t work. Sighing, I squeezed Soren’s hand. Ever since

meant the raiders were afraid of the Nowind

is unlimited, especially when under a lot of pressure and in threatening circumstances. If the raiders threatened to kill everyone in town, they’d have a battle on their hands.

be scared of

Norwind villagers outnumbered the raiders. If Norwind survivors all banned together, the raiders could have lost or been overpowered. It was too big of a

the woman sitting with us, a somber look

or kill you all in the moment but they left you all in fear and unwilling to fight back, with

woman nodded stiffly and popped a spoonful of soup into her mouth before gritting through her teeth. “Damned

so,”

My sister Lilian is there.” she motioned to her sister, another one of the

at her. She turned up her

“She’s still a bit cranky. Sorry about

“I understand,” I said.

“Momma!”

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