An Understated Dominance (Maria Vittori) novel Chapter 1951

Dustin was awakened by footsteps outside the tent at the break of dawn. He quickly turned around to get up and was watchful.

Soon, he heard Osley speaking. "Ms. Linsor, something bad happened!" Instead of barging into the tent, Osley stood outside to report the incident to Grace.

"W-What?" Grace slowly opened her eyes when she heard the commotion. She slipped out of the sleeping bag and slipped into her jacket.

She then asked, "What happened, Mr. Will?"

"When I was doing my routine check, I saw a lot of desert rats around our camp. I followed their trail and realized that the rats had destroyed our supplies!" Osley replied anxiously.

"What?" Grace's expression instantly became serious when she heard that.

She quickly walked out of her tent and questioned in a serious tone, "Didn't I arrange for someone to stand guard through the night? How did the desert rats get to our supplies?"

"I have no idea as well. It was already too late when I discovered the problem." Osley appeared disheartened.

"Let's go have a look!" Grace didn't say much as she immediately walked toward where the supplies were stored.

To play it safe this time, she had prepared all the supplies needed for survival and hired a caravan of camels to transport the supplies.

Before the night set in, she even ensured that people were standing guard. She had no idea that she would wake up to a problem with the supplies.

When Grace and a few others got to the supply storage tent, she saw thousands of desert rats running around. Food, water, and other resources were all over the ground.

The desert rats that overran the food supplies were scared and started breaking up and running away. They were all gone in a short while.

All that remained were the carcasses of hundreds of desert rats. This loss was almost nothing for the desert rat colony.

The gunshots woke everyone in the camp, and they were disgusted to see the aftermath on the ground.

They had been through many troubles, such as sandstorms, quicksand, and venomous snakes and scorpions, since the beginning of their journey.

Nevertheless, they had always resolved the issues without suffering any loss.

However, a desert rat invasion had robbed them of more than half of their food supplies.