FLETCHER'S POV

The fact that we were unable to save Bernice from Victor today hit me with a crushing weight. I wished she would have been rather safe than sorry but accomplishing that feat would require a greater battle than what any of us would have expected. Twenty of our men couldn't prevail against forty of Logan's. Such a fight would be a mass slaughter.

I came to hate Logan more than ever. I had needed to avenge the killing of our family and particularly for ending Bernice's life, but now that I realized he hadn't killed her but made her his slave, I loathed him much more.

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