Chapter 266

---- Chapter 266 Giselle met Orin's eyes for a brief moment. Her mind was blank. She didn't know what to say, so all she could do was stare at him with vacant eyes. Orin hadn't exploded into rage immediately. Instead, he reached out his hand to her, and with a grave voice, he said, " Get up." Giselle gave him her hand, and he pulled her up swiftly. "Come back with me," Orin said as he plucked the leaves out of her hair gently. There were no signs of him being furious at her at all. However, it was precisely this kind of calm before the storm that was truly terrifying.

Giselle took a deep breath quietly and lamented self- deprecatingly, "You might as well just kill me right now. I never want to go back to that place ever again." "T won't kill you," Orin replied in broken Valanthean as he stared intently at her. "I'll bring you to another place. All you need to do is continue to work for me and not run away. I won't hurt you." Giselle didn't feel much as she listened to Orin's enticing words. She quickly settled down in her mind as the gears in her brain worked overtime.

"Okay." She smiled, then added guiltily, "I knew I wouldn't be ---- able to run away, and you'd surely find me. I ran out of energy along time ago-that was why I was waiting here for you to find me. Since you've promised not to kill me, I'll follow you back now." "Let's go," Orin replied as he held her by her wrist and brought her down the mountain from another direction. He clearly knew his way around the mountain, and he knew the shortest route down, unlike Giselle, who was just dashing around in random directions.

Orin had never once revealed the intention of wanting to kill her throughout. Not only did he hold onto her when he noticed that she was injured, but he also helped her fend off snakes on his own initiative when they appeared. At that moment, they were like lovers who were just fighting, with her going up to the mountains out of spite, and him going through all the trouble to get her back. It was almost as if they would be able to reconcile and be like they were once they had gone back. Orin still didn't mention anything about her letting those other ladies go.

Instead, he had repeatedly emphasized that he wanted to bring her away from this place to another city since she had killed the military officer, and how the armed forces here would repeatedly come for her. He told her that leaving this place was her only way out. After a while of walking, Giselle accidentally cut her leg open, scraping against a metal rod, causing her to be in so much pain that she had to sit down. When she turned her calf ---- around, she saw a gnarly wound against her pearly white skin, and it was bleeding profusely.

It was only then that she had found out that they were in where the armed forces were active, hence the leftover spread of metal fences, barriers, and similar things all around. If people were not careful where they walked, they would get hurt very easily. Orin hurriedly squatted down and turned her leg over to assess her wound. "Tt really hurts. I really can't walk right now," Giselle pleaded, "Could you dress my wound up for me?" Orin saw that the blood was gushing uncontrollably from her wound and tore a strip of his shirt immediately so he could tend to her wound.

"Be gentle, it hurts," Giselle whimpered. He used a piece of tissue paper to first clean off the dried blood caked on her leg before using the strip of cloth to carefully dress her wound in an unhurried manner. Giselle looked at Orin, who had his head down and was focused on his task, and continued to chat with him. As she did, she secretly took out the gun she had hidden in her undergarment. She didn't have time to hesitate about her next step at all. She didn't even have a second to spare.