"Tell me there is good news this time around."
Adrian stood up immediately he saw Maxim enter the camping site they had made not far from the Citadel four years ago. He had been waiting for him, hoping that this time around, Maxim would have something good to say.
Maxim shook his head.
"They have all been slaughtered and some captured," he said, and Adrian gritted his teeth in anger.
"What would it take for me to kill that bitch?" he shouted, looking around in frustration. "I have been living like a dog all this while," he said, his anger growing with every word.
His men had since been depleted because of the nonstop battle to reclaim the Citadel for the past four years. What started as a fight to take back what Adrian believed belonged to him had dragged on for years, and the number of men standing beside him had continued to reduce.
