Dictator s Daughter (33 page)

They took off and headed to Densfield to meet
up with the rest of the family.

It was all over and she cried. Riley would
never hurt her again. Her father would get what he deserved. He
wouldn’t be able to control her life any longer nor was he a threat
to Baylend.

She had found Sean through it all. He helped
her, protected her, and stood up for her. He never criticized her.
He cared for her after she was shot and never took advantage of
her; Sean was never anything but a perfect gentleman in her mind.
He would have given up all the money in the world to get her back
and he risked his own life to save her; for that, she’d never let
him go.

Eliwese didn’t know what lay ahead for her
and Sean, but she did know that soon he would be rejoined with his
whole family; the family she considered herself to be a part of.
Four generations of his family had risked their lives helping the
people of her country. None of this would have been possible
without their help and their tradition of defiance.

Sean and Eliwese arrived at the Densfield
hospital many hours ahead of Ryan, Lyndee and Sara. Paul, along
with his parents and brother, Sam, and Lyndee’s boyfriend, Brock,
waited anxiously for the reunion and celebration. Many hugs and
tears later, the group relaxed and watched the news broadcasts.

Sean sat on a couch next to Eliwese with his
arm around her, protecting her, even though it wasn’t necessary any
longer; but he still felt the need to keep her safe. He doubted the
urge would ever leave.

The breaking news of Victor Rawlings’ arrest
aired all evening. The murder of Dr. John Randall had caught the
attention of the nation as being the reason Victor Rawlings was
apprehended. The hope was the charges of accessory to murder would
be enough to keep him in prison. The threat of nuclear weapons had
many worldwide agencies scrambling to contain it, and the accused
Senators had been arrested; foiling the hostile takeover plot.

Once the media caught wind that Eliwese was
at the Densfield hospital, the decision was made to relocate to a
hotel. Several former defectors the Cutlers had housed called to
offer congratulations, and Brock, the former leader of the
insurgents, began phoning his contacts across the border in an
attempt to organize the leadership again. However, when the final
family members arrived, visitors and phone calls halted.

The joyous melee of tears and tender hugs
seemed to go on forever. Lyndee and Brock worked their way to a
corner where he could comfort her and tend to her injuries.

Eliwese followed them with her eyes and Sean
whispered in her ear. “They can get married now. They’ve been
waiting for this moment for a long time. It’s too bad she’s
injured.”

“She’ll heal, we all do.” Eliwese added
softly.

The debate had only begun on what to do with
the eighty-million dollars. Several ideas floated around but Sean’s
caught everyone’s attention.

“Eliwese and I are going to the Caribbean,
anyone else care to join us?”

The response was unanimous and excitement
hummed through the room. Eliwese didn’t feel the same way, though.
She leaned closer to his ear and said, “I can’t go and relax until
I know my mother and sister are safe.”

“Ok, we’ll get your mother and sister, and
then we go to the Caribbean.”

Sara watched her son and Victor’s daughter.
The two of them had grown close through the recent events, not
unlike her and Paul all those years ago. They spoke of returning to
Rendier to extract Eliwese’s family. Sara thought how nice it would
be to visit her own parents’ graves, but the grave next to theirs
was hers, and her headstone referred to her royal blood; just one
of her proverbial skeletons in the closet—that, and Lyndee.

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