Talen Bancroft’s POV
It was a cold night, not the kind of night where you wanted to be standing in the middle of the forest for hours on end but that was exactly what we were doing. My father had gone into the town with a small group of his and alpha Ward’s best fighters. Their job was to secure the hostages while the rest of us surrounded the town and prepared for the attack.
I was watching my father’s progress from my vantage point near the top of a large spruce tree. They had already made it past the patrols around the perimeter and they were heading into the outskirts of town. From here I could see that there were no lights in town other than street lights and a few lights right in the centre of town.
“I have a bad feeling about this,” Leyton said. He had climbed the tree beside m
