Chapter 6

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Chapter 6

“I’m thinking about whether to do it one more time or not.”

Holly was taken aback by the calm words.

“Who’s going to do it with you?”

“You liked it.”

As she loathed, Cahill grumbled.

Her gaze turned downward involuntarily when her thighs trembled when she saw the front of his pants that had risen. Even if this situation was not the case, if she did more here, she would die.

“I don’t have time to hang out with you.”

Holly, deliberately retorted apathetically, bit her lip and rolled her head. She had to run away before the sun came up. Henri would have thought that the faithful Holly would not run away in debt.

‘That was why they didn’t even protect the house.’

It was unfortunate for her. If her parents hadn’t abandoned her and ran away alone, she might have tried to pay off the debt instead, as always.

Stupidly.

Her eyes lit up at the thought of being abandoned again, despite all her efforts. No, they didn’t think of Holly as a child in the first place. No parent would push their five-year-old daughter into a cold back alley to get some money.

“Yes, of course.”

Seeing Holly with her red eyes, Cahill turned back to an innocent face.

“Thank you for taking me.”

Holly gave a belated goodbye. She could have pretended that he was not there, though he took her home, as she asked, without anyone’s notice. In any case, if it were not for him, she would have been caught earlier, or she would have been caught on the way.

He looked at her without saying a word and smiled. However, Cahill, who she thought was going, stood tall in front of the door.

“Aren’t you going?”

Looking back at Holly’s question, who was tired of waiting for him, his face was stained with embarrassment.

“I can’t open the door.”

Holly was speechless and stared at his handsome face. Sliding doors were unfamiliar to the people of this country, so he may not know it. Perhaps, he didn’t see how she opened it earlier.

Holly pushed the door, trying to understand.

“Here. You know the way back, right?”

Cahill, who nodded his head and gazed down at her, then lowered his body. Holly closed her eyes as she watched his lips approach her.

“Come back if you want to do it again.”

Leaving after a mouth-watering kiss. Seeing that the door was closed, Holly moved her steps to the furnace. As she sat down, she removed the firewood and began to dig the dirt.

After a while, a hard thing touched her fingertips.

“They couldn’t find this.”

Holly smiled triumphantly and pulled out a black box. They wouldn’t have thought that she would have hid money under the fire, even if they went all over her house. The black wood that made the box had the property of not being burned.

It was a gift from a guest from Lauriue, saying that she liked Holly.

“Thank you, Layla.”

She did not neglect to collect emergency funds while paying off the debts. The sum of all the money she shared and hid was less than this because she thought that one day she might leave her parents. Although she didn’t know they would leave her first.

“Where did they go?”

Holly’s eyes flashed fiercely as she remembered her parents, who had stolen her hard-earned money and ran away. She was going to take her parents and tossed them in front of Henri.

“…And, I’m going on a trip.”

There were many good people in Centria, but it was clear that if she stayed here alone, she would not be able to escape from her parents for the rest of her life.

“Look around the world to my heart’s content, and find a good spot among them?”

She was confident that she would go anywhere and eat and live.

Holly got up with two coats, some food and a purse in a small bag. She jumped up from her seat and something slippery flowed from her inside. It felt very strange to see something that was not hers flowing inside her body.

“Uhh…”

Glancing with puzzled eyes as the watery liquid soaked her thighs. There was no time for her to draw water and wash her body.

Holly shook her body, took off her underwear, and wiped it between her legs. She then rummaged through the cupboard and chewed the contraceptive herb into her mouth.

“This one helps.”

The contraceptive pill was provided by her good-natured parents. Holly shoved the leftover herbs into her bag just in case and came out through the back door.

She was out of breath. Still, she couldn’t stop her running feet.

‘I thought you were wallowing around drunk.’

Holly bit her lip at the plan, which had gone awry from the start.

“Holly, Holly—”

The man following her hummed her name like the lyrics of a song. She got goosebumps. Henri always glanced at her with snake-like eyes. Everyone in Centria knew that he had a crueler disposition than anyone else.

‘If I get caught, I won’t die well…’

Perhaps, she would receive men day and night as the sex slave of the Torimas. Her eyes were dizzy at the terrifying imagination.

‘Where am I going?’

Everywhere she looked, there were trees. Even though it was the back mountain she had been to a few times, it was unfamiliar. It was because there were things like white mold on the green trees and grass.

It was the first thing she had ever seen, similar to ground ice. Those strange things even spewed a chill.

While she hesitated, the sound of heavy footsteps came from nearby.

Holly gasped, shaking her body from the cold. She worked at an inn and was confident in her stamina, but it would be trouble compared to men who had done this as a business.

“What game is this?”

At that moment, an unfamiliar voice sounded overhead, and she shook her head. Cahill, from whom she had parted at dawn, sat on a thick branch, and her eyes twinkled.

“Where are you, my sweet Holly.”

A grotesque voice came from behind again.

“I am being chased. Help me!”

Holly was ready to grab him by the neck and clung to him.

“Why me?”

Nonetheless, Cahill drew the line with the same words as when she jumped into his bed. Holly stared at him with resentful eyes and then shook her head. The two met only for one night and got together so, of course, he was under no obligation to help her.

She was just about to turn around.

“Well, it’s not that difficult.”

Cahill, who was looking down at Holly, jumped down from the tree. He then wrapped his arms around Holly’s waist.

“Now is not the time…”

She twisted and clung to him like last night. The night with him wasn’t bad, no, it was actually good, but she was being chased now.

Cahill tilted his head as if puzzled by her reaction and kicked the ground. Holly covered her mouth, which was about to scream. Her body floated up. When she opened her tightly closed eyes, she was on a branch higher than where he was sitting.

“Why is this not the time? You asked for help.”

She was mistaken to think that Cahill would want her body.

Holly’s cheeks turned red as she replied.

“…Nothing.”

As he hugged her and clasped her butt, Holly was afraid to stand on a high place. She leaned her back against his firm chest. Cahill’s arms were comfortable as she had gotten used to being held in his arms all night.

Shortly after taking a seat on the tree, Torimas and the crew arrived where she had been standing a while ago.

“Where did she go?”

They glanced around, looking for Holly, who had disappeared before their eyes.

It was then…

Even though the wind was not blowing, the leaves of the tree on which she was sitting trembled. A few birds woke up in the commotion and flew away. Unfortunately, the men who felt the change raised their heads. Holly bit her lip. There were not countless leaves in the trees, so she could be seen clearly.

“Stay close.”

Then, the warmth that had supported her back disappeared with a low whisper tickling her chest.

“What bastard are you!”

A cracked voice could be heard below. Holly lowered her body and peeked down. There, men with knives and clubs gathered in front of Cahill.

“It’s me.”

The Torimas and the crew seemed to be perplexed at the sudden reply as if there was no sense of crisis. There were some who burst out laughing as if it was ridiculous.

“What were you doing here?”

Still, Henri asked in a calm voice, unlike his subordinates.

“I was sleeping.”

Cahill’s voice had a languor as if he had just woken up.

Was it because she was in a high place…? Suddenly, a cold breeze rushed through her back. Holly wrapped her arms around her trembling body.

“What should I do, brother?”

A man with a slender impression approached Henri and asked. He was a man who claimed to be his left arm and did all the dirty work.

Henri’s gaze passed through his subordinate and reached Cahill.

—

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────