So, even though the city was a bit chaotic and business had slowed, he wasn’t living in constant fear.
But after what Paige Sumrs said, he started to worry.
"What do you an by that...?"
Paige Sumrs blinked innocently. "Well, I just got back to the city with the Hunting Party when I found him staking out my place. It looks like he plans to abduct , but I have no idea what for..." She deliberately kept it vague. In reality, she knew Shawn Monroe was after her mostly because of the weapons she made. But since she’d always downplayed her weapon-making, Woody Warren didn’t know.
As such, this ambiguous tone, which invited his imagination to run wild, successfully made Woody Warren’s face darken.
’With Shawn Monroe’s status, what kind of woman couldn’t he find? Why did he have to fixate on a little girl like Paige Sumrs? Or was it just because she’d rejected him, and he had to force her to submit just to prove a point?’ He glanced at Paige. Under the brim of her hat, her small face looked practically like a minor’s. His heart lurched. ’Don’t tell ... Shawn Monroe has that kind of perverse fetish...’
When the apocalypse had just begun, many people indulged their basest desires. He had seen things like that, and even more depraved things. Now, connecting the dots and factoring in Paige’s deliberately innocent act, his imagination couldn’t help but run wild!
At his core, Woody Warren was a rather old-fashioned man who harbored a hidden sympathy for the weak. The more he mulled over his own speculations, the more he believed they were true, and a firestorm of anger began to build inside him!
"You can hide out here for now!" he decided firmly.
Hearing this, Paige Sumrs didn’t imdiately look happy. Instead, she pressed her lips together and said, "Shawn Monroe knows you’ve always looked out for . He’ll probably guess I’d co here for help. I’ll just bring you trouble."
Woody Warren stared at her with a blank expression for a mont, then suddenly grinned and poked her hard on the forehead. "Little girl, playing hard to get with , are you? You think I don’t know what you’re up to? Since I, your boss, dare to let you stay, I naturally have a plan. Don’t underestimate !"
This ti, Paige Sumrs was truly relieved.
Although the Boss’s goodwill towards her seed to have hit its peak, aning no warm current flowed into her chest, she was now more certain than ever that he genuinely wanted to help her!
She threw her arms around the Boss, thanking him in a low voice. For so reason, her voice was choked with emotion.
Woody Warren sighed quietly, patting her back comfortingly.
In that mont, Paige Sumrs suddenly had the strange feeling that Woody Warren was like a father to her.
’She had never known a father’s love, but in her heart, she always felt this was what a father should be like. Even if he wasn’t invincible, even if he was weak, he would still stand before her like a great tree, protecting his child with all his might!’
"I almost forgot, there’s soone else..." After her emotional mont, Paige Sumrs straightened up sheepishly. "That little lamb I told you about, he’s still waiting outside. I actually ca back this ti to leave with him!"
Woody Warren imdiately rolled his eyes. "You can barely take care of yourself, and you have the energy to worry about others! I’m telling you, if you hadn’t co back to the city, you wouldn’t have been so unlucky as to get targeted!"
Paige Sumrs just grinned foolishly. ’Why does being scolded by my own family feel so good!’
"He’s my little bro now. I can’t just leave him behind, right?"
Woody Warren waved his hand at her in resignation, telling her to bring the person in.
’Forget it, forget it. Hiding one is the sa as hiding two. He’s just a kid anyway. Might as well.’
’Besides, Paige Sumrs is right. Shawn Monroe is persistent; he’ll definitely find his way here. The most urgent thing now is to figure out how to get her out of the city. And it goes without saying how dangerous it is outside the walls. Although she has so skills and always cos back from her hunts in one piece, she’s still just a girl. Having a ’little bro’ with her for company, soone to watch her back, isn’t a bad thing.’
With this in mind, when he t Levi Young in person, he tried his best to make his naturally fierce face look a little kinder.
Unfortunately, Levi Young didn’t appreciate the effort at all and remained on high alert.
Woody Warren was initially displeased, thinking the kid didn’t know what was good for him, but then he had another thought. ’Wait, this is exactly right! You have to be like this to survive for long! In his opinion, Paige Sumrs still isn’t wary enough; she trusts people too easily sotis. Outside the city, it’ll be safer for her with him there to help!’
Thinking of this, he smiled with satisfaction.
Little did they know, his face was destined to look even more unsettling when he smiled!
With a great sense of dread, Levi Young followed Paige Sumrs and was hidden by Woody Warren in a storage room behind a secret door.
Paige Sumrs, on the other hand, seed quite calm. She even had the presence of mind to start rummaging through the Boss’s private stash, shalessly making materials, tools, and other things disappear...
Levi Young’s mouth twitched. "Did you get a spatial ability?"
Paige Sumrs knew she couldn’t hide it from him. "Yep. You know about this stuff too?"
"Duh! I wasn’t born yesterday!"
"Haha, and you even know old sayings... that’s rare. But you seem to be talking a lot today. Are you nervous?"
Levi Young got angry. "Can you stop being so carefree! Aren’t you afraid that guy will sell you out?"
Paige Sumrs stopped what she was doing. After a mont, she sighed softly and looked up at him. "He won’t. Don’t you trust my judgnt of people? If I were the paranoid type, I wouldn’t have kept you around back then, right? And as it turns out, we make great partners."
Levi Young was taken aback, a flicker of joy appearing in his heart. But then he thought of Woody Warren, and his face tensed up again. "But we can’t even run if we wanted to! Are we supposed to stay in this place forever?"
Paige Sumrs tried to be patient. "Didn’t the Boss say so? He’s going to figure sothing out and get us out of the city as soon as possible. Besides, it’s useless for us to go out now. There’s no way Shawn Monroe will let this go; he’s definitely got people looking for us. Even if the Boss’s plan doesn’t work out, we still need to wait for this to blow over before we leave."
Levi Young opened his mouth, about to argue further, but Paige Sumrs raised a hand to stop him in the next instant. "Quiet! Soone’s coming!"
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