For two years, Ares Gallo has been ransacking the galaxy for the woman who meant everything to him. They trained together, killed together, loved together, but now, Anicka Dekker doesn't even know who he is. All she knows every time she meets the enigmatic, scarred stranger is that a part of her trusts him. An even larger part desires him. In any and every way she can have him. Ares wants his wife back. Despite the scars that have changed his appearance and the chronic pain that destroyed his career, he follows Anicka from planet to planet, finding her in seedy bars, stately palaces, and everywhere in between. Every time they have a few moments of pure bliss, his hope blooms that this time…things will be different. Then, STRIKE, the organization that wanted them dead, tears them apart, erasing Anicka's memories, and Ares has to start all over again. But even if she can't remember him, he's certain she'll recognize their bond. Sooner or later.

Across the Universe

So she turned on her heel and ran. As fast as she could, as long as she could. She had three days until her rendezvous. Three days to replay the events of the past few hours, multiple times, on fast forward or rewind. Three days to discern what the significance of this pin really was.


And if the man who called himself Ares Gallo was the same Ares who had left the note in her private journal. The note she’d found after the assignment on the Dome. In a place nobody knew about but herself. A place that should’ve been impossible for anybody but her to reach.


Except a man named Ares had. And if his story was true, he would again. 2: Across the Universe


A landing pad on the planet Tiessa—three months later


Chapter 11