Divorced But Not Defeated The Military Queen’s Rise Again novel Chapter 238

Chapter 238 Unbroken Faith

The wildfire had led to Rowan’s disappearance, and Quinn refused to believe her brother had simply vanished from the world.

She drove back to the apartment. Julius was already there, seated on the couch with a stack of documents. When he saw her come in, he set the papers aside and stood up.

“You’re back,” he said warmly.

Quinn stepped closer, eyeing him.

Julius paused, noticing her reddened eyes. “What’s wrong? Have you been crying?”

Before he could finish, Quinn wrapped her arms around him and buried her face deep against his chest.

Surprise flashed across Julius‘ features..

In his mind, Quinn was always the strong one. No matter how much pain she endured, she rarely shed

tears.

Yet her eyes were unmistakably swollen, indicating that she had wept for a long time.

Did someone hurt her? Was she wronged out there?

The woman he cherished so much deserved nothing but happiness, and he wanted nothing more than to see her smile again.

And yet now, she had been crying in public, no less.

“Who was it? Who made you cry? Tell me!” Julius demanded, a rare flare of anger sharpening his low voice.

He had always been a man of cool detachment, indifferent to almost everything and everyone around

him.

But the sight of Quinn’s swollen eyes ignited a fury he scarcely recognized in himself.

“It’s not what you think,” she murmured, her face still buried against his chest, her voice rough with

emotion.

She had broken down at the military district because she heard Rowan’s recorded voice and watched drone footage he had shot five years earlier. For a fleeting second, it felt as if the long, aching gulf of time between her and her brother had never opened at all.

Then, when she returned to the apartment and saw Julius sitting alone on the sofa, she suddenly felt the sting of her tears again.

Since Rowan’s disappearance and their parents‘ deaths, she had been orphaned in every sense that mattered.

She once believed Trent would give her a family, but he had not. Even after three years of marriage, the Grafton family had never truly accepted her.

Yet the instant she opened the door to this apartment and saw Julius waiting, she was swept by the sudden certainty that she had, at last, come home.

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