Episode 71

Zed’s men had captured a lady and brought her before him. As soon as he saw her, he ordered them to leave them alone. “I want time alone with her,” he said.

As soon as they left, he embraced her. “Julie!,” he said, dazzled. “I never thought I would see you again.”

“Zed?,” she said, awestruck.

“Yeah, it's me,” he said, smiling.

“I thought my eyes had played a fast one on me,” she admitted, yet to fully get over the shock.

Julie was surprised to see Zed after a long time away rrom him.

“I never thought I would set my eyes on you again,” he confessed. “Where have you been? What happened to you?,” he asked, taken aback by her look. She looked a tad different from the Julie he had become used to back at the camp.

“It's a long story,” she said, smiling.

“That's why we've got all the time to ourselves. Be my guest.”

As they talked, she told him where she had been…

“After I left the pack, I was captured by a group of bandits, rogues.”

“They must have thought of you as a weakling, one with no