Page 50 of Ellie 3

After her bombshell interview, she was hassled left and right for more comments and information. News media was all over ASH to get footage of the North American military escorting uninjured South American citizens through a portal. It wasn’t being brushed off anymore or left to handle later.

Our government finally acted—waspushedto act by Ellie.

They should have on their own. The South American government was challenging ours. It wasn’t just an oversight or prank. They were… Politics sucked.

But Ellie had a response for all of it. She was so poised and ready for all of the attacks, insults, and assertions that it wasamazing. I could never be as smooth as her if I lived to be a thousand.

“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt nor judge the person busy doing it,” she told the media several times. “The President of South America wasvery vocalthat ASH could never become what it has and that this was all North American greed and a failed attempt to show our superiority.

“Once it was achieved, he changed his tune and spent years and years trying to slap it with a UN hospital label as if he’d had a hand in it. That no one would noticeor rememberall his previous very loud comments. Yes, many of us remember and were always going to stand in the way of his idiotic plan.

“The fact he did it during a horrific crisis affecting his citizens—one that killed over a hundred and was the failing of his government disgusts many of us. It should disgust the citizens of South America. They were suffering and he had his family help make a play on a private hospital in another country for money. Money he wanted for himself. Beyond disgusting.”

She had bigger balls than I did. Everyone said it again and again and was beyond impressed with her.

Funny how when they thought she was just the mouthpiece of the founder they tore her down as a loudmouth paper-pushing admin, but now that they knew she was the founder, they were behind her. It probably wasn’t that simple, but to some… It was.

Some people were that simple. It was fair to call a spade a spade.

But about a week after her interview, it came to a head, and in a desperate attempt to stop the dominoes falling, the President of South America came for who he saw as the head of the movement.

Ellie.

He wasn’t wrong, but it had gone way beyond her now, and rightfully so. It was now like trying to throw a wine cork into atornado. He had protests all over his continent and… There was no getting out of this. One exposé after another uncovering how other corruption and misdeeds were going to take him down.

But he came for Ellie.

Or the South Americanmilitarydid.

Yeah, it got that crazy.

I was outside with the running club wrapping up when a massive portal opened and soldiers started pouring out. I didn’t hesitate, grateful that one of the North American President’s aides slipped me their number in case of emergencies.

This was a fucking emergency.

I sent them a message with pictures of what was going on and then hit record, trying to call them on video.

Ellie was fearless, coming right out and making me want to run off with her and spank her for a week. Maybe more.

She really knew how to push the limits of how far someone could trust their partner. Truly push them.

But she was breathtaking and… There weren’t words for how cool my lover was.

Shesmirkedat the general who demanded she surrender herself and ASH to them, publicly state it was a UN hospital. She stood there fucking smirking as he ranted.

“You done?” she chuckled darkly when he paused, seeming to understand he wasn’t going to get the reaction he expected. She ignored the steam coming out of his ears and looked past him. “This isnota UN hospital. This is a private hospital on sovereign land of North America, and you justinvadedwithout reason.

“It can andwillbe considered a declaration of war and you will be party to that. Of ahospital.” She met the general’s eyes. “You should have just gone for kindergartens and put the final nail in the coffin of your jobs. Seriously. This is so desperate andfoolish that—aren’t you embarrassed to be party to this? To end your career this way?”

She knew how to piss people off and push every button to get a reaction as fast as possible. That was her greatest gift it seemed.

And it worked. The general snapped and made the mistake of putting his hands on her.

In front of cameras.Mediathat was there doing follow-up stories and trying to get whatever they could. Well, now they were getting footage that would go down in history.

Also, that no one would ever forget because Ellie folded that general up like a pretzel faster than most could even react to the change of things getting physical. He was unconscious and broken at her feet, people staring at her like they’d never seen her before.

And she simply chuckled, staring at the next in command. “It’s public knowledge now who I am. I was born of a noble family, the only acknowledged heir of a coven leader hundreds of years ago. Yes, he might be a criminal and a gambling addict—a rat bastard to everyone he meets—but it means I wastrained.” She snorted. “You should see me with a sword.”

---