Chapter 15- Surviving The Tortured By Joseph Andrews

I wondered how I was able to survive such excruciating pain that I had been suffering since the time I was kidnapped. There were numerous cuts and wounds over my body that had partly dried, and blood clots had formed over them. Apart from that, the fresh cuts with the sword on my limbs and shoulders made me feel that I would faint. But I think it was the effect of Ben’s supernatural powers that was protecting me since I was his soul mate. There was a time that I used to get afraid of even a drop of blood that would show itself on my hand due to some minor scratch, and now I was here tolerating so much blood loss. Blood oozing out of my body continuously had made me weak, and Joseph Andrews had not given me anything to eat for almost twenty-four hours now. Leave alone food; he had not even offered me water after I spat on his face. I had an extreme urge to drink some water. My mouth was dry, and my throat parched due to thirst.

Throughout the night, I kept myself distracted by thinking