Another, with a lecherous grin, sneered, "Too bad she’s too young and not developed to my taste. How about we grab her and extort a hefty ransom from her family? Then we can spend it at the brothel." The remaining two seemed to agree and started closing in on me. I’m in trouble. Not only would I cause my family to spend a fortune to ransom me, but they would also likely forbid me from ever going out alone again. I’d become the useless, sheltered girl I was in my past life! I can’t let this happen. I need to find a way to escape! I nervously scanned my surroundings. Idris was nowhere in sight. But even if he was, I wasn’t sure he’d do anything to help. He might actually prefer it if I were out of the way. To make matters worse, these thugs were blocking my way back to the main road whe

