Love the Bombshells 5

Peace. It's worth fighting for. Hell, it's worth killing for. Life in the settlement of Hope kept getting better by the day. Iris's talent with plants secured our food stores, and the boys from Loch Raven our safety. All we needed to worry about was improving our systems, like running water. Except for one lingering problem: the Druids. When their leader promised to destroy us, I decided that I wasn't going to stand there and wait for him. We decided to take the fight to him—to wipe out the Druids once and for all so we could finally experience peace. My hope was that our neighbors to the north could help us with this fight, with guns, bombs, anything at all. They had a few surprises for us, including some things I never would have expected. Despite all this, I refused to let it bring me down. I made sure to keep my promise to take each of my girlfriends on a date, a real date. No matter what, even with war looming over our heads, I made sure to keep love and happiness alive. Those were two things that had to be preserved at any cost.