Back at the community leader’s house, Leo was carefully changing the dressing on Nina’s wounds.He held a sterile cotton swab between his fingers, cleaning each scrape and applying ointment with painstaking care.His touch was so light that it was almost cautious.He clearly didn’t want to hurt her any more than she already had been.The room was quiet, filled only with the faint scent of the ointment and the soft sound of their breathing.Then Leo’s phone rang from the bedside table.He glanced at the screen, picked it up, and stood.“Give me a minute. I need to take this.”Nina nodded.“Okay.”Leo returned a short while later.Nina looked up at him and immediately noticed that his expression had turned colder.Thinking back to the few words she had overheard, she asked, “Is there an update on what happened to Alan and me?”Leo walked over to her.He didn’t try to hide anything.“Yeah. We found her.“She was on her way back to Burgola City. I had people stop her.”The
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