The General's Broken Vow Chapter 2

I arrived at the military base dorms in a daze. My mom sent a message:

[How is it? Arthur must be thrilled to know you're there, right?]

I took a deep breath, rubbed my sore eyes, and pretended to be calm as I replied:

[I just got to his dorm, haven't told him yet.]

The dorm door was pushed open from the outside. It was Arthur.

Our eyes met. His expression was unnatural for a few seconds, but he quickly regained his composure.

"Why didn't you tell me in advance you were coming, so I could pick you up at the airport?"

My expression was indifferent: "Wanted to give you a surprise."

Arthur walked over smiling and gave me a big hug: "I couldn't bear to let you do that."

"You must be tired from the flight, right? It's just my promotion to Major General, yet my wife had to go through the trouble of flying over."

Arthur wanted to say something else, but his phone rang.

As he looked down to reply, the familiar gentleness and patience appeared between his brows.

Then he turned his head and said to me apologetically:

"My comrades invited me out for dinner tonight to celebrate my promotion. I'll have to wrong you for tonight, honey."

Before I could speak, he grabbed a piece of clothing from the closet.

I instantly understood.

He came back to the dorm to get the personal item Mia had forgotten.

This dorm, where Arthur temporarily lived after being transferred to the Cloud City military district, I had taken the time to decorate for him.

For this, I took a week off from the Seacity military district, missing out on a major mission.

But right now, the tactical watch I spent half a day hunting down at a military auction and brought over personally was gone.

Even the photo of the two of us stuck to the fridge had vanished without a trace.

A wave of nausea seeped into my heart along with the clothes.

I stood up abruptly, grabbed my suitcase, and headed for the door.

Arthur followed: "Are you angry?"

He hugged me from behind: "The dorm isn't clean. I'll book you the best room at the guesthouse."

"I promise, I'll spend the whole day with you tomorrow, okay?"

As usual, he pressed against my cheek, wanting to kiss me.

I turned my face away. He didn't mind and left impatiently.

Across from the dorm, a man walked out and whistled at me.

"Major General Hayes has a girlfriend, I've seen her. Why are you looking for a married man?"

"Everyone who lives here knows them, they live very happily."

The man kept talking and actually stepped forward, trying to hug me.

Like a reflex, I kicked him hard.

The man cried out in pain, and I dragged my suitcase towards the stairs.

Even when I stumbled and fell awkwardly to the ground, I didn't dare stop to see where I had scraped my skin.

Hearing the man's angry curses behind me, I was terrified of getting into trouble, so I got up and ran downstairs.

Heading straight to the military airport, I sat blankly in the waiting hall.

I didn't understand. Why did Arthur cheat again?

During the first two years of our marriage, I often had nightmares.

In my dreams, Arthur was holding a strange girl, both of them stark naked.

When I woke up, my heart would always ache.

Arthur would hold me, coaxing me over and over.

"It's all my fault. I made my wife sad again."

He changed the passwords of all his electronic devices to my birthday and introduced me publicly at military events.

What he did every day, who he met—he always reported to me in detail.

Even when he had to stay outside while executing military missions, he would leave the video call on all night, falling asleep to the sound of my breathing.

He and I were both carefully repairing that trust.

Exactly when did it start?

Faintly recalling that woman's name, I opened the military forum and searched.

It took me only a minute to find her among many accounts with the same name.

Only because that profile picture was taken in Arthur's dorm.