One by one, the team bid their farewells and headed home, grateful for the memorable night they had shared. Only Merry and Professor Charlotte remained, waiting for her son to to arrive.
Mr. Rogers looked at Merry as if she was naive to think it was that simple. "What do you think I am the only one in charge? No, there are far more layers to this situation than you could imagine. I was just one person assigned to run one of the branch facilitys. There are others involved, higher authorities pulling the strings.""Cole!" Merry exclaimed, her heart pounding in her chest. She couldn't believe it was him standing in front of her after all these years. She reached out to touch his face, tears welling up in her eyes, saying, "Is it really you?"
"You guys know each other?" Someone who was standing beside Merry asked curiously.
Merry looked at the person talking and was surprised to see that it was Miles.
