An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

This was, without a doubt, very bad news.

“”Ms. Linsor! What happened? Where did the desert rats come from?” Garret asked as he walked toward her.

“Captain Wilder, shouldn’t I be the one asking that question?”

Grace said indifferently, “You’ve been to Deadlands many times and are very familiar with this place. You even chose this place for us to set up camp.

“Don’t you know that there would be desert rats around this area?”

“Ms. Linsor, I had no idea this would happen.”

Garett quickly explained, “Normally, desert rats will only appear at the border of the oasis, and even then, they are only active in a specific area.

“The place that we chose to set up camp is not in that area. The invasion shouldn’t have happened.”

“Ms. Linsor, accidents are inevitable. Once we’re in Deadlands, you should have prepared yourself for all scenarios. Our captain has done his best. No one knew that there’d be desert rats here.

blame your subordinates for not guarding the food supplies well.” The short-haired girl from the

subordinates were responsible for looking after the

who was responsible for guarding the food supplies? Get all of them here,”

away!” Osley answered and left

with a few others from the team and reported, “Ms.

happened? Why didn’t you realize the problem in time?” Grace sounded

was of utmost importance as the fate of Dragonmarsh depended on

we fell asleep.” The leader of

five of you?” Grace

The leader lowered his head as he explained, “I have no idea what happened. As soon

invasion was our

spoke, all five of them got on their knees in unison and

only way to atone for their mistakes was to offer their

fishy about this incident, and all of you are not entirely

able to go without sleep for