Chapter 7. Leave Me Alone

“I was on a mission on my own for the first time and I hunted down the target. I tracked him to an abandoned building. What I found was not a bloodthirsty beast that had been murdering women,

it was a woman and her child,” Lana explained.

“No, you’re lying,” Kasia countered.

“If I’m lying, I’m flying,” Lana said. “The orders were clear. That’s when I realized the hunters were lying to us. A mother and her child were no threat to us. They were rogues, malnourished, on the brink of death.”

Kasia shook her head, the pain in her heart too great to bear. “Nadia wouldn’t have lied to us.”

“And why wouldn’t she, Kasia? We were grunts. We didn’t need to think. We just needed to do what we were told,” Lana said bitterly.

“She wouldn’t have done that. You must have gotten it wrong, tracked the wrong one,” Kasia argued. She refused to believe that Nadia would do something like that.

Nadia was the one to find Kasia and Lana struggling to survive. Nadia