Divorced But Not Defeated The Military Queen’s Rise Again novel Chapter 86

Chapter 86 Would You Fall For Me

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He wanted someone who could protect him from his father and help him escape from him.

Back then, all the younger Julius had wanted was for someone to save him. But now, he was strong, no longer afraid of anyone. Why, when facing her, did he nearly let his most fragile side slip out?

“Quinn, if one day I could be exactly the man you described, love you only, never betray you, stand beside you through life and death, never leave nor abandon you, would you fall for me then?” His voice drifted softly through the air.

Quinn said, “Are you joking?”

After all, Julius just didn’t seem like the kind of person who could do such a thing.

She couldn’t even picture what it would look like if a man like him really fell in love with someone.

“Yeah…” Julius slowly closed his eyes, taking in the subtle scent that lingered on her.

It wasn’t perfume or anything artificial. It was a natural smell from her–a clean, sunlit hint of fresh herbs.

It made him feel comfortable and at ease.

“Maybe I am just joking,” he murmured against her shoulder.

He just wanted to lean there a little longer, surrounded by her presence.

The nausea he’d felt after that call from his father seemed to fade with every breath he took near her.

In the following two days, Quinn visited the Bridger family’s ancestral hall every day. She would check on her parents‘ urns and pay her respects to the memorial tablets of the family’s ancestors.

When she stood before the tablets of the fifth branch, her eyes welled with tears. Next to the names of her grandparents were now the newly added tablets of Montague and Arlene.

The once–flourishing fifth branch of the Bridger family had become nothing more than names on memorial tablets.

But none of them would have regretted it. They had all done what needed to be done.

For their country and their family, they’d die a hundred times over without regret!

Quinn knelt down and bowed deeply before the memorial tablets.

“Dad, Mom, I will find Rowan. And one day, he and I will come back together to this hall, to pay our respects to you and every ancestor of the Bridger family.”

Rowan had gone missing five years ago. The military had launched a search, but he was never found. She had once ventured to the borderlines in search, but her efforts had still been in vain.

All these years, she’d kept searching online, gathering every scrap of information she could to find him.

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07.10

Yet, neither the official missing persons notices posted by the military nor her personal efforts had turned up anything.

Once everything in Yarburn was settled and her assignment to protect Julius was complete, she planned to head back to the border. Maybe she’d finally find a clue.

It was Quinn’s fault she’d had to kneel all night in the ancestral hall, humiliated in front of the clan!

Quinn’s expression turned cold. She strode forward and, before Marley could react, slapped her across the face.

Slap!

Marley held her face, stunned. “You… you actually slapped me?”

“You insulted the fifth branch. Why wouldn’t I hit you? Even if you run crying to Great–grandpa, I’d still do it,” Quinn said coldly.

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