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Ella's POV

I smiled as I watched the men move around, the hustle and bustle of activities putting excitement in the air and giving out a charge that we hadn't felt in days.

I loved it. It was better than the morose expression that had been on everyone's faces for the past two days as if someone had died. My subconscious reminded me that I had almost died but I reminded it as well of the operative word in the sentence. I had almost died but I hadn't died.

It wasn't until later that I found out that everyone, not only my father and Kevin, had had it rough when I had been lying down in that tent and fighting for my life. I was touched by their concerns as I had been worried ever since my father and Caleb came that their affection for me would have dwindled because of my birth origin.

Looking at them now, going up and about to arrange a mini party in my sake, I realized how silly I had been for ever doubting for once the good in the heart of these men.

Kevin had told me before that the me