After the very emotional meeting with my father-in-law, Duke Ivan, we decided to only let the immediate family know about the fact that Ioannis was alive. My mother-in-law, Duchess Grace and my sister-in-law, Young Lady Iya, were called in immediately after the duke has calmed down a bit.
When the two women came in to the room and saw the duke's red and puffy eyes, two pairs of questioning eyes landed on me immediately. I thought they were going to fight me then and there. My father-in-law quickly defended me to ease up the tension and explained what happened in detail.
In just a few minutes, instead of one person that needed calming down, I now have three people bawling their eyes due to sheer happiness and excitement of meeting a family member again. They thanked me profusely as if I was the one that pulled their son out from the mudslide years ago. Ioannis was already 22 when I met him, just to be clear.
