TWENTY-FOUR ISLAMIC STATE rebels had been killed by the United States in a drone strike. The strike allowed the United States to capture eight Daesh insurgents and rescue six Marine POW. I was among the six marines rescued that day. My team and I had been prisoners for ten months. Ten months, they tried to break me without success; I had come close when they brought a woman into my cell. It was in my nature to protect those unable to defend themselves, but I couldn't do anything to save this woman, no matter what I told my captors. She would have still had been killed, no matter I said. The look of fear in that woman's eyes was embedded in my soul.

Sarah was too bright for me after my time as POW... That's why I disappeared five years ago from her life but now she is in danger and nothing is going to stop me from protecting her no matter how much she hates me.