Chapter 391 - Orphan (2/2)

A moment later, he returned with a small chest. He kneeled down beside Lotus' thigh, grabbed a pair of tweezers, and looked at her. Lotus understood what he wanted to do. She rolled up her skirt slightly and Sasquatch gently started removing the shard of glass that was still planted in her thigh. It wasn't very deep, but it was still very painful.

However, Lotus simply clenched her fists and did not flinch.

”This must be nothing compared to the cuts on your hands,” Sasquatch suddenly commented as he wiped her wound with some saline water.

Lotus narrowed her eyes, surprised that he had noticed her cuts. She thought for a bit and replied, ”Physical pain is nothing compared to mental pain.” Indeed, in the scheme of things, these cuts were nothing compared to what she had experienced in her life.

Without raising his head, Sasquatch asked, ”Who did this to you?”

Lotus fell silent for a while. This man's voice was deep, manly, and protective. It almost sounded like he wanted to get revenge for her. ”What are you referring to?” she asked. Was he asking about the kidnapping or the cuts on her hands?

But, after she asked this question, she realized it made no difference what he was referring to. After all, the cause of all her pain was the same person...

Thinking about this, she shook her head and laughed. ”Do you know why I volunteer at the orphanage?” she suddenly asked before Sasquatch got the chance to answer her question.

Sasquatch finally lifted his head and looked into her eyes. Her eyes were gentle; nothing like a criminal's. He shook his head.

”I was an orphan too,” Lotus revealed.

”I was 6 when my parents abandoned me at the doorstep of the village orphanage because they could no longer afford to feed me.”

Sasquatch felt a tinge of empathy when he heard this. He finished bandaging the wound on Lotus' thigh and sat down next to her to listen to her story.

”They didn't know at the time, and I was too young to understand, but the orphanage was actually illegally run and was a front for a human trafficking ring. So, soon after the orphanage took me in, I was sold off to a gang in the middle east who subsequently sold me to a man in Egypt. This man's name was Ali Gamal, but everyone knows him as 'Amun'. He was the one that put these cuts on my hands,” Lotus said as she removed her gloves and showed her hands to Sasquatch.

”He was also the one that tried to kill me today...”