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My Father's Secrets
Chapter One: Lost Soul
Growing up in Las Vegas you learn at a young age that things arn't always what they seem and no matter what the odds, winning was impossible. Seajae Riely knew by experance. Her mother had lost everything and then lost her life. At the tender age of thirteen she was thrown into her father's home and his life. Today she would find out things that she needed to know. Did she want to know? Well that was something all together different.
The first thirteen years of her life were a blur. Living on the street one minute and a four star hotel the next. He mom lost more then she won and by the time she was five her mother had married three times and she'd lived with several other men. By the time Seajae moved in with her father she had a fear of the male gender so bad that her father couldn't even walk in the room without her cringing with fear.
That was fifteen years ago. Now her father was dead too. But for all of those fifteen years Alan Riely showed her how to love and more importantly how to trust. Now standing in the lobby of one of Las Vegas's most prestiegest casino's she felt a little intimitated. Fresh off the front line of a war no one knew about or cared about she came home to a family in turmoile. Her father on his death bed and his wife gone missing Seajae turned to the one person her father had told her she could trust with anything.
"Welcome to the Montecito." A perky blond smiled from the front desk.
"Seajae Riely to see Ed DeLine." The woman looked at her like she just asked to see the President.
"Is he expecting you?" The woman's sticky sweet voice turned icy.
"No but then it would't be a surprise if he did now would it."
"Mr. DeLine doesn't like surprises." A man in his late twenties, early thirties stepped behind her and caught her off gaurd. It had been awhile since anyone had done that. Seajae turned to look at the man. If she was looking for the perfect man the one standing in front of her would come close. His peircing eyes and unruly hair gave him a sexyness Seajae knew he used to get his way.
"I'm sure he will like this one."
"And you said you name was?"
"Riely. Seajae Riely." Reconision flicked in the man's eyes.
"Your dad was Alan Riely."
"You knew him?"
"Yeah. He was my CO for five years. You used come to the base....." The man looked at the woman and remebered a young girl. He had been young then too. Young enough to think that nothing could touch him.
"Private McCoy."
"Seajae Marie......" She had been seventeen and needed to see her father more then anything to tell him about her acceptance into the Corp. Her step mother had found her a flight to where ever her dad was at that time. He had not been happy to see her. And to her dismay he had not been happy with her choice of careers.
"Long time no see private."
"Made it all the way to Staff Sargent before I called it quits."
"First lutenant here."
"You always had big dreams."
"Is Ed in?"
"For you I think he is. Follow me." Seajae servayed the casino as they walked though it.
"It won't be a surpise I'm here will it?"
"No....I saw you the minute you walked in." They walked to an elevator.
"You didn't know who I was?"
"Your shoulder holster made you a target." He smiled. "You LVPD now?"
"Started last week." She looked at Danny McCoy for the first time in ten years. Really looked at him. "It was all I ever wanted to do. Try to keep the streets safe for the people who live here." Danny knew about Seajae's life with her father but the years with her mother...well no one needed to know about those. The elevator opened and a man in his fifties stood infront of them.
"You are a sight for sore eyes missy." Seajae smiled.
"It's been too long Ed...." She swifty took two steps forward and let the older man engolf her in a hug. She needed his strength. He held her tightly sencing she needed him.
"You can let go now sweety." Seajae knew want he ment and couldn't hold back the tears. Ed DeLine had been a lot of things in his life. Seajae Riely's god father was one of his finer accomplishments. He looked at Danny who knew better then to interupt. The younger man slipped into one of the offices and left the two alone. "Seajae....."
"I'm sorry...." She pushed away and wiped her tears.
"No. There's nothing to be sorry for. You father....he was a good man."
"I know...." She looked at her fathers friend of nearly thirty years. "I found somethings at the house....and Miranda is gone.....the kids......"
"Let's go in my office and you can tell me everything." He lead her up some stairs into a glass office that overlooked the servalice area of the casino.
"Welcome to the big leages huh." Seajae wiped her eyes again and looked around the room.
"It works for me." Ed poured a drink and handed it to Seajae. She drank it down and set the glass on the desk. She was her father's daughter. He watched her as she watched the servalience team, mainly Danny McCoy. "What did you find at the house Seajae?"
"Lot's of things I don't understand." She watched the men and woman watching the screens. "I knew dad wasn't perfect. But Ed these papers....they....."She turned. "They make him look guilty of a lot of things."
"Seajae you know if they were there for you to find someone wanted it that way."
"I know. But I still.....It looks bad. And if Miranda found them....they make thier marriage and the last tweny years a lie."
"She was gone before your dad died Seajae. I went to see him a few days before......" Before he shot himself......Ed couldn't bring himself to say the words. The cancer had ravaged the man and Ed knew he wouldn't of lasted much longer. "He was at peace with it all. Mirand and the kids....well he said his good byes."
"I don't like a wife that wouldn't stand beside her man." Seajae looked at the picture of Ed his wife and his daughter on the desk. Delinda was five years younger then her. A tall beautiful blond. Growing up on the rare days the Riely's and DeLine's got together Delinda made Seajae feel not so alone in a world full of men leaving when duty called. "Where is she Ed?" Seajae looked at him with her father's eyes. He couldn't lie to her.
"She left about a month ago. Just before...." Ed looked out on the servalence room floor. He looked at Danny who was behind his desk. They had found Alan....in the bathroom....nothing left of his skull. The first thing out of Danny's mouth had been..'What are we going to tell his daughter?' Both decided the same thing he and Alan had decided fifteen years ago when they found her mother. They wern't going to tell her anything. But she was with the police department. He was sure she read the report. "Your staying here this week end. I want to go to the house and take a look at those papers."
"Ed.....I can't just up and spend the week end here."
"You have three days off.....I know you do."
"Been keeping tabs on me Big Ed?"
"Since you were born." Seajae looked at the man again.
"Yet you and my father let me live in hell with my mother for thirteen years." There was a bitterness in her voice that had never been directed at Ed before.
"He said he couldn't do anything......"
"Yeah well...it made me who I am and right now I'm comfortable with that. " She took her gun out of her holster and put it on his desk. "I wouldn't want to break any of Big Ed's rules." He put the gun in the safe behind his desk.
"Miranda took the kids to Mexico. I know where she is if you want to ask her some questions but sweety I know she doesn't know anything."
"I came home a year ago and my father and step mother were happy and so in love it made you sick to look at them and I come home the next time and he's been dead and barried for a month and she's gone taking my brothers with her. You better believe I want to talk to her." Ed wanted Seajae to know everything but he knew what she had seen the last five years of her life. He knew she wasn't ready for the secreats her father or his wife had kept from her. He motioned for Danny and he was next to him in less the a minute.
"Take her up to the resident floor....the one next to you. I want to keep her close this weekend." He looked at Seajae. "Whatever you found Seajae...it wasn't there when me and Danny found him. So whoever planted wanted you to find it not us." He saw something in her eyes he didn't like. "Danny will take you upstairs. You need to get some rest and in the morning we'll head to your dad's."
"I know I can trust you Ed." She looked at Danny. "Him I have my doubts about." She smiled. "But daddy always trusted him. Even when he was a private." Seajae looked at Ed. "I need to know what's going on Ed."
"I know." He sat on the corner of his desk and took her hands in his. "I swear we'll figure this all out. Get some rest."
"Ed....."
"When was the last time you ate anything?"
"Ed....."
"Seajae....please. Just get something to eat and some rest and we'll figure this all out in the morning."
"I'd do what he says....you should know better then to disobay a direct order." Danny looked at her and smiled. She could fall hard for that smile like she did when she was seventeen.
"Ok. You win. But if I don't get any answers by the end of the week end I'm out of here." Ed knew she ment it. Se wouldn't just leave the casino she would leave his life. He couldn't loose her again. He wouldn't loose her again.
My Father's Secrets
Chapter One: Lost Soul
Growing up in Las Vegas you learn at a young age that things arn't always what they seem and no matter what the odds, winning was impossible. Seajae Riely knew by experance. Her mother had lost everything and then lost her life. At the tender age of thirteen she was thrown into her father's home and his life. Today she would find out things that she needed to know. Did she want to know? Well that was something all together different.
The first thirteen years of her life were a blur. Living on the street one minute and a four star hotel the next. He mom lost more then she won and by the time she was five her mother had married three times and she'd lived with several other men. By the time Seajae moved in with her father she had a fear of the male gender so bad that her father couldn't even walk in the room without her cringing with fear.
That was fifteen years ago. Now her father was dead too. But for all of those fifteen years Alan Riely showed her how to love and more importantly how to trust. Now standing in the lobby of one of Las Vegas's most prestiegest casino's she felt a little intimitated. Fresh off the front line of a war no one knew about or cared about she came home to a family in turmoile. Her father on his death bed and his wife gone missing Seajae turned to the one person her father had told her she could trust with anything.
"Welcome to the Montecito." A perky blond smiled from the front desk.
"Seajae Riely to see Ed DeLine." The woman looked at her like she just asked to see the President.
"Is he expecting you?" The woman's sticky sweet voice turned icy.
"No but then it would't be a surprise if he did now would it."
"Mr. DeLine doesn't like surprises." A man in his late twenties, early thirties stepped behind her and caught her off gaurd. It had been awhile since anyone had done that. Seajae turned to look at the man. If she was looking for the perfect man the one standing in front of her would come close. His peircing eyes and unruly hair gave him a sexyness Seajae knew he used to get his way.
"I'm sure he will like this one."
"And you said you name was?"
"Riely. Seajae Riely." Reconision flicked in the man's eyes.
"Your dad was Alan Riely."
"You knew him?"
"Yeah. He was my CO for five years. You used come to the base....." The man looked at the woman and remebered a young girl. He had been young then too. Young enough to think that nothing could touch him.
"Private McCoy."
"Seajae Marie......" She had been seventeen and needed to see her father more then anything to tell him about her acceptance into the Corp. Her step mother had found her a flight to where ever her dad was at that time. He had not been happy to see her. And to her dismay he had not been happy with her choice of careers.
"Long time no see private."
"Made it all the way to Staff Sargent before I called it quits."
"First lutenant here."
"You always had big dreams."
"Is Ed in?"
"For you I think he is. Follow me." Seajae servayed the casino as they walked though it.
"It won't be a surpise I'm here will it?"
"No....I saw you the minute you walked in." They walked to an elevator.
"You didn't know who I was?"
"Your shoulder holster made you a target." He smiled. "You LVPD now?"
"Started last week." She looked at Danny McCoy for the first time in ten years. Really looked at him. "It was all I ever wanted to do. Try to keep the streets safe for the people who live here." Danny knew about Seajae's life with her father but the years with her mother...well no one needed to know about those. The elevator opened and a man in his fifties stood infront of them.
"You are a sight for sore eyes missy." Seajae smiled.
"It's been too long Ed...." She swifty took two steps forward and let the older man engolf her in a hug. She needed his strength. He held her tightly sencing she needed him.
"You can let go now sweety." Seajae knew want he ment and couldn't hold back the tears. Ed DeLine had been a lot of things in his life. Seajae Riely's god father was one of his finer accomplishments. He looked at Danny who knew better then to interupt. The younger man slipped into one of the offices and left the two alone. "Seajae....."
"I'm sorry...." She pushed away and wiped her tears.
"No. There's nothing to be sorry for. You father....he was a good man."
"I know...." She looked at her fathers friend of nearly thirty years. "I found somethings at the house....and Miranda is gone.....the kids......"
"Let's go in my office and you can tell me everything." He lead her up some stairs into a glass office that overlooked the servalice area of the casino.
"Welcome to the big leages huh." Seajae wiped her eyes again and looked around the room.
"It works for me." Ed poured a drink and handed it to Seajae. She drank it down and set the glass on the desk. She was her father's daughter. He watched her as she watched the servalience team, mainly Danny McCoy. "What did you find at the house Seajae?"
"Lot's of things I don't understand." She watched the men and woman watching the screens. "I knew dad wasn't perfect. But Ed these papers....they....."She turned. "They make him look guilty of a lot of things."
"Seajae you know if they were there for you to find someone wanted it that way."
"I know. But I still.....It looks bad. And if Miranda found them....they make thier marriage and the last tweny years a lie."
"She was gone before your dad died Seajae. I went to see him a few days before......" Before he shot himself......Ed couldn't bring himself to say the words. The cancer had ravaged the man and Ed knew he wouldn't of lasted much longer. "He was at peace with it all. Mirand and the kids....well he said his good byes."
"I don't like a wife that wouldn't stand beside her man." Seajae looked at the picture of Ed his wife and his daughter on the desk. Delinda was five years younger then her. A tall beautiful blond. Growing up on the rare days the Riely's and DeLine's got together Delinda made Seajae feel not so alone in a world full of men leaving when duty called. "Where is she Ed?" Seajae looked at him with her father's eyes. He couldn't lie to her.
"She left about a month ago. Just before...." Ed looked out on the servalence room floor. He looked at Danny who was behind his desk. They had found Alan....in the bathroom....nothing left of his skull. The first thing out of Danny's mouth had been..'What are we going to tell his daughter?' Both decided the same thing he and Alan had decided fifteen years ago when they found her mother. They wern't going to tell her anything. But she was with the police department. He was sure she read the report. "Your staying here this week end. I want to go to the house and take a look at those papers."
"Ed.....I can't just up and spend the week end here."
"You have three days off.....I know you do."
"Been keeping tabs on me Big Ed?"
"Since you were born." Seajae looked at the man again.
"Yet you and my father let me live in hell with my mother for thirteen years." There was a bitterness in her voice that had never been directed at Ed before.
"He said he couldn't do anything......"
"Yeah well...it made me who I am and right now I'm comfortable with that. " She took her gun out of her holster and put it on his desk. "I wouldn't want to break any of Big Ed's rules." He put the gun in the safe behind his desk.
"Miranda took the kids to Mexico. I know where she is if you want to ask her some questions but sweety I know she doesn't know anything."
"I came home a year ago and my father and step mother were happy and so in love it made you sick to look at them and I come home the next time and he's been dead and barried for a month and she's gone taking my brothers with her. You better believe I want to talk to her." Ed wanted Seajae to know everything but he knew what she had seen the last five years of her life. He knew she wasn't ready for the secreats her father or his wife had kept from her. He motioned for Danny and he was next to him in less the a minute.
"Take her up to the resident floor....the one next to you. I want to keep her close this weekend." He looked at Seajae. "Whatever you found Seajae...it wasn't there when me and Danny found him. So whoever planted wanted you to find it not us." He saw something in her eyes he didn't like. "Danny will take you upstairs. You need to get some rest and in the morning we'll head to your dad's."
"I know I can trust you Ed." She looked at Danny. "Him I have my doubts about." She smiled. "But daddy always trusted him. Even when he was a private." Seajae looked at Ed. "I need to know what's going on Ed."
"I know." He sat on the corner of his desk and took her hands in his. "I swear we'll figure this all out. Get some rest."
"Ed....."
"When was the last time you ate anything?"
"Ed....."
"Seajae....please. Just get something to eat and some rest and we'll figure this all out in the morning."
"I'd do what he says....you should know better then to disobay a direct order." Danny looked at her and smiled. She could fall hard for that smile like she did when she was seventeen.
"Ok. You win. But if I don't get any answers by the end of the week end I'm out of here." Ed knew she ment it. Se wouldn't just leave the casino she would leave his life. He couldn't loose her again. He wouldn't loose her again.