GONE

"I'll call a cook to prepare you dinner, your favorites, you grew thin! Wait here… Baba will fatten you again." Datu Pita said in a hurry and stood up to run out from the room. 

As soon as he left Lapil sat in front of her. "I've been thinking for some time Yanarym… what happened to you that night?" He asked in a grim tone. 

"You know Maki, right?" She said and Lapil nodded, "He was about to deliver my drunken state to death. But I stalled him, and as a result, something happened to us." She added, Lapil did not comment but his brows furrowed. 

"He works for Tala, so, when I woke up I ran away from him assuming that he would still kill me. Then, I met Achis in the woods. He gave me shelter, food, and clothes. In return, I paid him using my body because I have nothing else to give him."