How could he just leave me like this?
Just let me marry another man?
She had to find him. She had to find him and demand the truth—the truth about their past, the truth about everything she didn't know.
Yara Quillan grabbed a pen and paper from the table, left a letter, and boarded a flight back home that very night.
She didn't know where to find Henry Lester, but she knew he was a soldier with a respectable rank, so she went straight to the military district.
After several days of overt inquiries and covert investigations, using the few spy skills she'd picked up, she finally learned Henry Lester's whereabouts.
The Veridian borderlands.
'What's he doing in Veridia?'
Although there hadn't been any large-scale wars in recent years, regional conflicts still occurred, like the Kosovo War, the Yugoslav Wars, the Gulf War, the Chechen War, the Iraq War, and the War in Afghanistan. Tensions were especially prone to escalating into full-blown war along national borders.
