Ethan’s POV

It had only taken almost four years.

The war had left behind a mess. Roads, communication, mass transit, factories—all of that infrastructure, as well as the economy, needed to be rebuilt.

Rosalie and I had to get back to work the second day after our wedding, and we'd been working hard ever since.

During the past four years, we both had to travel a lot, and sometimes we couldn't even see each other for two or three months at a time. The good thing was, our hard work had paid ...