CHAPTER 13
Orchid felt so much better after a good meal and a shower. Seeing all the people, all the cameras, hearing all the questions being yelled at the yacht sent her into shut-down mode. But she couldn’t go there yet.
Her parents were here, and they had Tesla in the car with them. Eden had insisted she and Holden and Doctor Gimball be allowed on the rescue ship, and Eden herself had navigated them around to various islands. No one knew the islands better than Eden, and a rush of gratitude for her sister overcame Orchid again.
With Holden and Eden between her and everyone else, they managed to make a relatively quick and clean getaway from the ship. She glanced over her shoulder once to see a man wearing a suit and waving at the crowd.
It took her a long, drawn-out moment to realiz
