The sun was getting too high and was peaking over the mountains too much. If it got much higher, it would be too hard to hide my position. I thought over my options. I could head back to the camp and call it quits, but if I did that, Marcus was still likely to come and it would be leading him right to the camp. I started regretting agreeing to being so close to the camp. The only other option was to stay and still take on Marcus, knowing that every second that passed, it was getting more and more dangerous.
Gerald wasn’t wrong. I had no idea what I was truly facing, and I needed the element of surprise to stand a good chance of doing any damage to Marcus. Beneath the leaves, I heard rustling and lowered my head. I couldn’t see anything. Staying as still as I could as I tried to take in my
