83 CHAPTER 83: A CRYBABY

Her tears were a river flowing down her cheeks!

Diana broke down as soon as she saw the man who found her.

Liam!

She couldn't believe her eyes but as soon as the man hush a whisper in her ears, she turned around and cried as she hugs him tight.

Peace started to surge within her. Ah, how she misses the man!

Liam kissed her hair and embraces the shaking woman.

He was extremely worried as he watches the woman from afar. As soon as the woman released all her bottled fears, she broke away from him and looked him in the eyes.

"Since when did you arrived?" She softly asked.

"Been here during your first night."

"First night?" she furrowed her brows. "How? I haven't seen you around. Where did you stay?"

Liam smiled and wiped the woman's wet cheek due to her sobbing. "I'll tell you later but let's get out of here first."

Liam took her hand and cautiously treks the secret underground passage he discovered the other day. It's total darkness, good thing Liam had a flashlight with him.

She wanted to asked where this passage leads them but she's afraid to speak in fear that someone might hear her. She'll be able to see the end anyway, for now, they have to crawl their way out.

After a few minutes, they arrived at the end of the narrow tunnel. What a relief! Diana heaved a sigh. She feels suffocated a while ago and she might pass out if it wasn't for Liam's presence.

"Where are we? Are we safe now?" She whispered.

"Not completely safe but we are still inside the town. Though we are at the hillside."

They walk a little farther until they reach a small hut in the woods. To the woman's surprise, an old man opened the door and invited them in. Turned out that he was a friend of Liam whom he just met when he escaped from the raiders.

Liam pretended to be one of the captives just to enter the town without any suspicion. As soon as they entered the town, he escapes and hide at one of the villager's house. He studied how the raiders acts before stealing some of their uniforms and wore them pretending to be one of them. The guards wore some barbaric yet funny helmets in their heads so when Liam stole one, he wore it and pretended to be guarding the tents while searching for Diana and Daniel.

He was able to search all the tents in the camp and even met the leader of the band accidentally but he didn't find his target until he heard about the slave's camp. Hearing the leader commanded one of his strong men to get the men from the slave's camp, he joined them and there he saw the woman.

Diana bravely confronted the armed men and he feared that he might blow his cover once they tried to kill her. He saw how the leader of the small group pointed his sword against her and he prepared himself to attack once he raises his sword to cut the woman. To his surprise, the man withdrawn. Phew.

He felt relieve as soon as the man placed his sword back to its sheath. He thought that the man might not hesitate to kill her because of her words.

Obviously the woman isn't done talking yet. Hearing how she threatened the man and offered protection at the same time, made Liam furrowed his brow. However, the woman's faith and confidence towards him was something he never expected to hear. Does she really trust him that much?

He smiled at the thought of it, especially when the woman assured the old man among the slaves who were taken.

Mr. Daniel! His eyes widened in disbelief.

Witnessing Daniel and Diana's situation, Liam took a small piece of paper and wrote a message using codes no one can understand except the members of the shadow knights. After which, he whistled a code and a black hawk came flying to him.

"Find Asher." He whispered as if the Hawk understood before he tossed the bird upwards and fly away.

Furthermore, Liam saw how the woman was dragged to the boss's tent. He chose to be posted as one of the guards at that particular tent so he could eavesdrop on their plans. And yes, he heard all their conversation as well as the fact that Diana was slapped hard by that bastard.

He's been clenching his fist in anger. He couldn't even explain why he suddenly wanted to kill Kira right at that moment but he tried to suppress his emotion because they are at the enemy's base. The fact that Diana walked barefoot was not also hidden to him.

Dang it! how he wanted to carry the hurting woman!

Seeing how she suffered much, he made his resolve to save her tonight

When the night came, while others were sleeping, he made his way to the women's chamber. It was when he followed them to the comfort room that he saw the woman as she cautiously escaped.

"There's water outside but you have to pump it. I think this dress will fit you okay." the old man handed the old dress of his deceased wife.

"Thank you Mr. Danda. I'll wash up first then." She kowtowed and went out. To her surprise, Liam followed her and took the initiative to pump the water for her.

"Hey, let me do that." She was about to hold the pump but Liam pushed her lightly.

"You've been through a lot this day so let me do this at least." His tone hints guilt.

Diana was a little surprise at his sudden action but smiled after. Still, she cannot believe that she's with Liam right now.

But guilt was eating her up too!

"Liam…" She looked away. "I'm sorry." she muttered softly, her tone gives a hint of remorse. "I'm sorry for being a burden. I know you have a lot in your plate right now but here you are saving me for the third time. I didn't know how you found me but thank you. Thank you for coming to save me."

Seeing how she pouted contritely, Liam went to her and flickered his finger on her forehead.

"Tsk! what an unusual woman! Sometimes your fearless but most of the time, a crybaby!" he chuckled.