The military truck that had picked them up at Rouxi's house rolled through the outer gates of their base just before the sun had started to set.
None of his team wanted to be here, they kept looking over their shoulders, trying to see if Rouxi maybe had followed them.
It wasn't like they hadn't tried to convince her to come to base. But she just shook her head and told them that that would never happen. She was just as cruel and direct as she always had been with them...
But when everyone else was waiting for him in the military truck, Rouxi went to the door and whispered low to him. "It's not like I'm going anywhere."
Right. She wasn't going anywhere. If they needed her, they knew where to find her.
And that eased something in Commander Li's chest that he wasn't going to look too closely at.
