Chapter 43

Valeria

Father, Mother, Jade, and I sit in the garden at a table having breakfast, looking like a real family as Father tells us what happened.

“It was devastated.”

“The camp?” I ask.

“Yes. We lost the camp. The enemy gained the upper hand. Our own men betrayed us.”

This is what Raphael had told me.

“In the middle of the night, they let the enemy in, and we were attacked from inside. We still won the fight, but we knew we had to pull back. We weren’t about to leave the enemy a place to c