ZhengLi had been shaken to his senses when they found their women missing today. The agony of not knowing where she was, what happened, if she was okay, and then the call she had been in an accident had almost ended him. The fear was unlike anything he’d ever felt in his life, had almost paralyzed him in terror, and he was wasting time and hurting her by allowing his family to push him around like this in the name of duty. He couldn’t do it anymore, not when he thought of how helpless and tiny she looked in that bed when he first walked into her room.

Battered, bruised,...