The Generals Debt Is Paid

After a lifetime of forcing Charlotte West into a marriage she never wanted, Nate wakes on the day of the inter-district personnel transfers with his memories intact. In his last life, he used his father's death while rescuing her to bind her to him, had her childhood sweetheart Brody shipped to a remote outpost, and spent a decade as half of the military's most infamous unhappy couple. Only at the end, as terminal bone cancer took him, did Charlotte tell him the truth: she had stayed to repay a debt to his father, not out of love.

This time, Nate volunteers for the brutal High Ridge outpost, intending to leave Brody at headquarters and give Charlotte back her life. But Colonel Miller reminds him his own transfer orders are barely dry, and the officers in the hallway already blame him for stealing Brody's future. Charlotte takes Brody's side at every turn, even handing him the Gable housing case Nate had promised to finish.

As she softens for Brody on the phone, Nate stands in the hallway, paralyzed, wondering whether he can truly let her go.