Yue Ling stared at the man standing before her, confusion flickering through her bluish-green eyes.
'I'm sorry it took me so long to find you.'
His words lingered between them, carrying a meaning she could not understand.
She gently pulled back from his embrace, just enough to look up at him.
"What do you mean?"
Lu Tian gazed down at her.
A faint smile touched his lips, but the emotions in his dark eyes were far more complicated.
There was longing.
An almost unbearable longing that seemed strangely out of place when the very person he yearned for was standing right in front of him.
Yet, for a fleeting moment, he was no longer the powerful man who commanded Lu Corps and Wolf Team.
He was that little boy again.
The boy who had followed a little girl through the gardens of the Ji Mansion, afraid she might disappear if he looked away.
The boy who had promised to grow up quickly so he could protect her.
