Chapter 67 Battle Of Two Territories

• The war room hummed with tension thick enough to slice. Maps sprawled across the wooden table, marked with red pins where Samuel's forces had been spotted and blue ones showing their defensive positions. Bobby traced the tunnel system with her finger, processing Kane's devastating intelligence. The revelation that Samuel wanted to drain her powers through ancient ritual had shattered every defensive strategy they'd carefully constructed.
• Twenty pairs of eyes watched her every move.
• "Everything we planned is useless now," Bobby announced, her voice cutting through the tense silence that had settled over the war room like a shroud. "Samuel isn't coming to kill me—he's coming to steal what makes me who I am."