The days after Melinda's burial carried a different atmosphere across the world.
For the first time in months, there were no explosions lighting up the skies at night. No emergency broadcasts interrupting television programs. No terrified citizens rushing into underground shelters while praying that another air raid would not reach their city.
The war was over.
Truly over.
And slowly, humanity was beginning to breathe again.
Cities that had been damaged during the invasion were already undergoing reconstruction at astonishing speed. Across continents, governments coordinated relief programs together instead of competing with one another. Military alliances that had once existed only out of necessity during the war had evolved into something deeper.
Unity.
Real unity.
The kind humanity had never fully achieved before.
And standing at the center of this new era was one man.
Jayden Cole.
The President of Nortasia.
The Dominus.
