I was aching to go check on Angel, but I needed to do my duty first. Despite the dishonorable way they came in, we managed to take them out. Some men had been captured after they surrendered, but a lot of lives had been lost.

The families needed to be informed and funerals planned.

And to top all that off, we needed to make sure that there would be no more attacks.

A lot of our people had been injured, including Lucas. We healed fast when it wasn’t a fatal blow but the ...