“You found him?” she asked.
He nodded. Did she think he would come back if he hadn’t?
“He’s dead?”
He nodded again. Caleb and Aleki watched on, worry in their gazes. Suddenly, she flew at him, hugging him tight. He stood there, shocked, his arms at his sides. He could feel her trembling and knew he had to do something.
A sob rocked her body and then he realized she was whispering something. “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
“You don’t have to thank me for taking care of you.”
More sobs rocked her.
Wolfe stared at her in horror. Then he glanced over at Aleki and Caleb. “Make her stop crying. Princess, stop crying.”
“I will, if you hug me back.”
He wrapped his arms around her. “Anything for you, princess. Anything for the woman I love.”
Epilogue
“Daddy! Daddy!” she cried out, racing into Caleb’s office.
He stood, fear filling his face and she instantly felt guilty. While this was an emergency to her, it wasn’t an actual emergency.
“What is it? What’s wrong?”
Ever since her uncle attacked her and set off all those pranks, things had been shut down tight at the palace. She hadn’t been anywhere in weeks. Not that she wanted to go anywhere.
Uncle Ben was dead. Not that she cared. He deserved that and more for killing her mom.
She just wished they had some evidence they could use to deal with her father and Roger Mitel. But nothing her uncle told her could be used against her father. It was all hearsay. The guys still had Micah looking into him but she knew that they weren’t hopeful of finding anything.
They were still trying to figure out how her uncle made it into the country and onto palace grounds. Wolfe was upset that he hadn’t questioned her uncle first before taking care of him. For once, he’d let emotions rule his actions. His need to get back to her overriding everything else. Everyone was shocked by it.
Beta team was taking the breach in security hard since her guys had technically still been on leave. They’d all sworn to her that they’d get to the bottom of it, even Judd.
Marilyn had confessed to overhearing a conversation the guys had about her father and William on the plane. Once Marilyn had done some research and worked out who Vivi was, she’d contacted her father to tell him where she was. She’d been deported. And Prince Kassim had assured them that they’d warned their vast number of contacts about her. She wouldn’t find it so easy to find a job again. At least, not one she might want. Vivi was sure she could find a job scrubbing toilets somewhere.
“What’s wrong, jelly bean?” Caleb asked her.
“Piggles is hurt,” she wailed.
“What?” Relief filled his face and he held his hand to his chest.
Whoops.
Although she didn’t have time to feel bad as she thrust Piggles up into his face. “Look! Fix him!”
“Oh no, Piggles, what happened?” Caleb asked.
“He’s had an injury under his chin for a while. I should have taken him to the toy hospital. Now he’s sick! He’s bleeding out.”
Well, the stuffing was coming out of him because there was a hole under his chin where a thread had come loose.
But, same thing!
Caleb grabbed Piggles. Then he wrapped an arm around her and tugged her over to the sofa. “Don’t worry, jelly bean. We’ll fix him.”