Chapter 12

A warm breeze ruffled her short red hair, and she took a deep breath of

the fresh air.

Thanks to the limited number of inhabitants and the strict tourism

limitations, the planet was one of the most pristine colonized worlds in the

Taran realm. Kira felt fortunate to have grown up in a place with such natural

beauty, and it irked her that tourists took it for granted that they could waltz

in like they owned the place while meanwhile trashing their own planets. If

she had her way, Valta would have much stricter visitation rules—no

‘ecotourists’ who couldn’t identify a flowering tree.

At the bottom of the gangway, Kira paused to assess her surroundings.

She had been told someone would come to meet her but had no details

beyond that.

No one jumped out at first, but then she spotted him—Leon Calleti. Tall

and fit, with sandy hair from his father and mesmerizing violet eyes from his

mother, Kira instantly remembered why she’d fallen for him all those years