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Chapter 270: Cooked and Healed 
Author: Emmy write
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Under a shabby palm where the drops of water from the sky dropped, the old man who was casted out from his sect set up his shelter to keep himself alive.

“I hope that my goodwill won't be used against me later? the oldan that rescued Amir thought to himself as he looked at how calm Amir looked

“Look at how handsome he looks?” The old man said and caressed his hands through Amir's smooth skin in regret of his own

“I would kill to look like this when I was younger but, I am stuck with his face that sends people away to their end.”The old man muttered and had flash backs of how he was the unicorn of his village that every woman wanted a pie e of him but now things had changed

“Where am I?” Amir jolted up after feeling a warm touch on his face and wondered how he got to where he was

Amir was still trying to understand his environment until he looked up and said “Why am I under a palm?”

He also felt heat from below on side of his body and with a stiff neck he struggled but turned his h
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