Chapter 269: Thought It Through Better

"I can," Wei Li Qin assured me. "But I would never ask them to. Unlike you, I am powerful in my own right and am more than capable of looking after myself."

"But I didn't question your ability to look after yourself," I replied, feeling a bit confused. It was apparent that she could look after herself. She was the leader of this group of humans, and that wouldn't have happened if she hadn't been strong in her own right. 

"But you did," replied the other woman. The glow from the firelight was reflecting off of her face, and I could see the look of hatred on her face toward me. "You wouldn't need to know everything that those men are willing to do for you if you didn't need them to do it in the first place. If I want or need someone killed, I would kill them myself."

At her words, I could feel the blood in my body starting to reverse its flow… my lungs struggled to inflate as I worked frantically to pull oxygen out of the air.