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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.

of the soup wafted out of the open front door and suddenly, they all perked up.

Soren and I followed.

tables set and were dishing

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

down and sat next to me. She plopped her soup down, staring at me like I’d pounce on her and eat her if she took her eyes off me for

is Ben, thank you, Miss Mila.” a

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

It is

Mila?” he pushed his empty bowl toward

Ben, but not right now. You need to let that food settle first. Having too much all at once isn’t good for you

and bowed

pocket, pulling out a small hard candy. I

about 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

ask you a

“Yeah, okay.”

at the woman sitting next to him. She was

did you all run out of food so quickly? We thought the intruders didn’t care about food or steal

the woman

sniffed. “Because those bastards dumped

from the other packs and even some of

much as they could… They burned our storehouses, shredded our perishables, and dumped all our produce into

creased my brow. “How did the pack

came over and sat beside me. From the look on his face, he’d been listening in. He took my

temporary headquarters. They secured

would bully the weak. They knew we’d be afraid of them and they took

it just to be cruel? It’s not like it did them any good, right?” I asked, glancing at

eyes flicked to the woman across

so they could

was a horrible thing to do. It was a slow

they go through the trouble

was reading my

“Because they were afraid.”

tried to say something back, it didn’t work. Sighing, I squeezed Soren’s hand. Ever since he rescued me, the mindlink had

the raiders were afraid of the Nowind

in threatening circumstances. If the raiders threatened to kill everyone in town, they’d have

would be scared

outnumbered the raiders. If Norwind survivors all banned together, the raiders could have lost or been

with us, a

of taking all your hope and risking a big fight, they dumped the food. They didn’t have to fight or kill you all in the moment but they left you all in fear and unwilling to fight back, with death looming over

stiffly and popped a spoonful of soup into her mouth before gritting through her teeth. “Damned raiders. They’ll pay for this.

hope so,” Soren

said, her lips twitching. “I’m Angelica. My sister Lilian is there.” she motioned to her sister, another one of the women that called

noticed us looking at her. She turned up her nose and refused to

a bit cranky. Sorry about

“I understand,” I said.

“Momma!”