The hostage was none other than Kira!

Though she was held captive, she couldn’t stop tears from streaming down her cheeks at the sight of Devin.

Devin scowled. “Why are you here?”

“S-Shanae left me with these men. Devin, I wasn’t the one behind Coldbridge’s incident. Shanae forced me to do that. She threatened to give my parents a hard time in the Wood family. Aunt Jasmine is dead, so I had no choice…” she trailed off and wailed sadly.

Devin was speechless.

One commander asked, “Major Devin, is she your cousin? What should we do now? If we rescue her and let them leave, our efforts for the past few days would be in vain.”

Though they were clearly reminding Devin of their mission, he couldn’t leave her to die.

After all, Kira was his cousin. If she were to die here, he wouldn’t be able to face his aunt and uncle for the rest of his life.

them to allow the

released, she

herself into his arms and trembled

of his arms instinctively, but when he saw her shaking figure and pale face,

right now. I’ll ask someone to take you to the base so that you can

released her grip on

led her out of the forest to

They had been working for a long time to capture those smugglers, but a woman appeared

suddenly appear

other commanders left, one remained. He was close to Devin and posed

“I’m not sure. She claimed someone handed her

as cold

get this bold? I can’t believe she’s this cruel. Isn’t she

Devin wasn’t completely convinced.

commanders to hold a meeting in the tent. They decided on a plan before he left the forest

girl’s sick. The doctor said she

was planning on questioning her thoroughly

Dengue?

the mesh at the entrance and stepped

thin bed,

her feet and reminded anxiously, “Major Devin, you’re back. Your cousin has dengue, so we have to send her to the hospital as soon as

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