I let myself relax now that I had dodged The Spanish Inquisition, and thought of what we had left to do before we could head out. There was no telling how long we would be away, but hopefully it wouldn't be for too long.
This thing seemed to have a long f*****g reach though, and with the tangos involved, there was no telling where this mess would go before it was all said and done.
I hated that my family's lives were put on hold, because of outside interference. It's funny that the one thing we had promised each other, had avoided so effortlessly the last ten years or so, had come back to bite us in the ass.
We never wanted any woman we chose to have to go through the horror of war, of having to wait for their man to come home. Never knowing if he would indeed be coming back. Now they'
