Chapter 121
Maksim’s POV
One Week Later:
We will be dealing with the hunters today. We arrived very early this morning, but we spent the day scouting. We needed to get the lay of the land and know just how many hunters we're dealing with here. We didn’t want to be caught off guard; we needed to be prepared. We approached it just as we would any of our other jobs. We needed to know what we were up against, so we caught one of them. We knew it was bad when we arrived. We could feel them in the woods surrounding the castle. We could hear their heartbeats. They couldn’t hide from us.
But we had to know exactly what we were up against. He lied to us, but that was expected. It was also futile. Adrik and my father were there to let us know what we needed to know. At dusk, we would slip out an
