Chapter 276

After the shouting stopped, it felt like the air had frozen. The silence in the villa grew even heavier. Ethan Shaw frowned. "I'm a soldier. I don’t tell you every single detail about the military. I thought you understood that." "But Nora Murray knows everything." "She’s in the military too. Everything she knows isn’t because I told her—it’s because we’ve been through it together." That sentence hit Celeste Harper like a punch to the gut. An aching sense of helplessness spread through her, seeping into every inch of her. She stared at the man in front of her and, for the first time, felt like he was worlds away. No matter how hard she tried, she could never win against the strict rules he held sacred. This time it was just a memorial for fallen comrades and he hadn't said a word. If it were a real classified mission, would she ever even know when he left or came back? She thought she could live with it, but it was Nora’s presence that made everything harder. Maybe sensing her disappoi