Chapter 71. The Desires

Ellie's POV

He leaves me perplexed and enthusiastic. His actions are worrisome, but the news he brings is so overwhelming, the feeling dominating every other feeling. I leap enthusiastically to the satchel and open it with a wide grin, a sense of new hope and fresh beginnings sweeping across my mind.

It is freaking over. The suffering is over. The long wait is over. The doom is over. The new dawn is here. Get ready for me, world!

I want to tell the whole world that fate has finally smiled at me. I want to let my father know that my stubbornness has won over him for the second time. That woman just opened amidst all the doors he had closed for me.

I want him to know that he has lost this battle because, with the $5 million, I will be glad to live with it, and there is nothing that he can do now to bed me to his wants. I want him and everyone to know that the havens have remembered me, but there is just one person he deserves, and they are all