{"id":209,"date":"2014-01-15T21:46:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T21:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colleen.mailpixie.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2015-04-25T02:52:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T09:52:52","slug":"miracle-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/15\/miracle-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Miracle Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">Miracle Girl<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you think she\u2019s the one?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He set down the file he\u2019d been studying. \u201cI believe she is,\u201d he said confidently, then hesitated, \u201cI <i>hope<\/i> she is, Nilima. For their sakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nilima sat back in the comfortable leather seat and sipped her tea. In just five years she\u2019d gone from a boring desk job, to being the personal assistant of one of the most reclusive and powerful men in the world, to becoming the literal face of Rajaram Industries.\u00a0 She had control of more wealth and corporate influence than she ever dreamed existed and it was all because of this man.<\/p>\n<p>The refined elder gentleman sitting across from her was not only the man who controlled a financial empire and was not merely her boss. He was a man with secrets. Unbelievable secrets. The kind of secrets that would send family members scrambling for the phone number of the nearest mental institution.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d told her that the purpose of his entire existence was to break a terrible curse.\u00a0 That all his money, all his power, all his energies were focused on that one goal. That the reason he\u2019d hired her was so he could turn his attention more fully to the mysterious and incredible fairytale that encompassed him. He\u2019d trusted her with his secrets and, though it seemed crazy, she believed his story and was determined to help him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell me again what the monk said to look for,\u201d Nilima prompted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were to look for a girl with brown hair and eyes, no parents, and with some kind of power in her speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there are perhaps millions of girls that fit that description.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes. But this girl is special. She is to become a warrior, strong and beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She set her empty teacup on the service tray in the bar.\u00a0 \u201cYou aren\u2019t hungry?\u201d she asked as she removed the plate with his uneaten dinner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The window outside was black. It would be close to midnight by the time they\u2019d land in Portland. He dropped several sheets of paper on the table and rubbed his tired eyes.<\/p>\n<p>When Nilima returned, she picked up a photo of the girl and studied her face.\u00a0 \u201cShe doesn\u2019t look like a warrior.\u00a0 I\u2019d have a hard time being convinced that this girl is destined to break a curse.\u00a0 She looks\u2026fragile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He opened his eyes and replied thoughtfully, \u201cIndeed.\u00a0 Did you know she lost her parents?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u00a0 What happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA car accident.\u00a0 She was fourteen when they were killed by a drunk driver. She\u2019s lucky to have survived. The car caught on fire and her parents were trapped inside. They were dead long before help arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nilima glanced at the photo again. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t have any visible scars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. In fact, she was found not too far from the crash. She has no memory of escaping the vehicle. She wasn\u2019t thrown from it, nor was she injured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She clicked her tongue. \u201cA miracle girl, then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d He set down his teacup as he mused, \u201cSo many years searching. I\u2019ve spent my life looking for this one special girl. I\u2019ve invested millions of dollars and sought out the help of monks, magicians, fiends, and frauds to find her, and yet it made no difference. This girl found us. It\u2019s strange but when I first heard her name, it seemed familiar to me. Almost as if I\u2019d known her all these years but that I\u2019d merely forgotten her face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow old is she now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeventeen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s young.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>Too<\/i> young for what will be asked of her.\u201d He sat back in the leather seat, clasped his hands, and rested them in his lap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re worrying too much,\u201d Nilima admonished. \u201cWhat\u2019s so hard about asking her to come to India? To fly off in a private jet, where she\u2019ll be treated to every luxurious comfort that money can buy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not taking her to India that worries me. It\u2019s exposing her to the magic and mystery associated with the curse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI handled it just fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kadam chuckled. \u201cYou handled it, but I wouldn\u2019t say it was easy for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d she agreed. \u201cIt was difficult at first but I trusted you. I believed you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut she doesn\u2019t have the benefit of trusting us first. She\u2019s already been through so much in her young life.\u00a0 I hate to ask more of her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nilima patted his hand. \u201cWe will help her. Try to make her as comfortable as possible. She may not even be the girl you seek.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s the girl,\u201d he said softly. \u201cNo one else has been able to wake the prince from his prison in all these years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s he like?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrince Dhiren?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s,\u201d Kadam laughed quietly, \u201cI don\u2019t really know anymore.\u00a0 When he was a prince, he was the hope of the kingdom\u2014bright, diplomatic, and self-assured. Now\u2026I don\u2019t know. He\u2019s been trapped for centuries.\u00a0 I think I\u2019d go mad in that time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did he seem on the phone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur conversation was brief.\u00a0 All he said was, \u2018Kadam. I\u2019ve found her and I\u2019m ready to come home.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They sat in silence for a few seconds.\u00a0 The plane angled slightly.\u00a0 Brilliant moonlight streamed through the window and fell upon the face of the girl in the picture. Kadam picked it up and said, \u201cPerhaps this young girl was saved from death for a reason. Perhaps our destinies are intertwined. <i>Perhaps<\/i> she will be the salvation of us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nilima gathered the papers and tucked them into his briefcase then she brought him a blanket and pillow and said, \u201cTry to sleep for a few hours. We\u2019ll speak of destiny again soon enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, you\u2019re right, of course,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n<p>As he closed his eyes and tried to rest, Nilima placed a few phone calls to assure that all things were prepared for their arrival.<\/p>\n<p>After she hung up, she dimmed the lights. <i>Could they honestly expect a young girl of seventeen who had absolutely no ties to India to not only believe their story but feel sympathetic enough to help?\u00a0 It was a lot to ask.\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Nilima pulled another blanket and pillow out of the overhead compartment and sat in the seat across from the man that had changed the course of her life.\u00a0 After getting comfortable, she stared out the dark window.<\/p>\n<p>Though she\u2019d had a hard time believing what he\u2019d told her, a part of her had always known there was something special about him.\u00a0 That knowledge had helped her overcome her fear and hesitation.\u00a0 He was all alone in the world and she\u2019d sensed that he\u2019d needed her.\u00a0 Perhaps this young girl, Kelsey Hayes, sensed the same thing in the lost prince.<\/p>\n<p>Nilima closed her eyes. 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For their sakes.\u201d Nilima sat back in the comfortable leather seat and sipped her tea. In just five years she\u2019d gone from a boring desk job, to being the personal assistant of one of the most reclusive and powerful men in the world, to becoming the literal face of Rajaram Industries.\u00a0 She had control of more wealth and corporate influence than she ever dreamed existed and it was all …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonus-material","category-tigers-curse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}