Dead?

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Arlet was dragging her by the chain around her neck. Renai was forcing her legs to work even though it was killing her exhausted limbs. She was numbed to feel the strangling. Her entire focus was on snivelling and constantly begging Arlet to save Kolton, though her voice was undertone and throat gunged up. His stiff gaze blankly locked at her had her mind on the loop. She didn’t care about herself, she cared about the dying man who most probably would be having his last breaths in that cold cellar.

They were passing through the corridor when suddenly a loud thump of footsteps hampered the women’s steps. Arlet caught the shadows of soldiers storming in their direction, her heart jackhammered and she hastily hunted around to find a secret spot. Her eyes flashed at the pillar. Her gut instinct unconsciously pushed her behind it. She dragged Renai and compressed her palm against her mouth. Renai shakily breathed over her skin. Her heart was aching when she heard the soldiers trudging i