Do you ever regret leaving all that gold buried beneath the temple? I turned to her. Never. Why? Because I came away with something better.
What? You? I nodded toward the children. Them. Then I looked across the ranch we had built together.
All of this. I rested my arms against my knees. This is my treasure. Seiya smiled. Want to hear something strange?
Always. The map is gone. I turned sharply toward her. What did you say? It disappeared about a year ago.
She spoke as calmly as though she were telling me about the weather. One morning, I woke up and every mark on my back was gone. Why didn't you ever tell me? Because by then it didn't matter anymore. She looked at me.
The map had already done what it was meant to do. It led you to the treasure. Seiya shook her head. It led me to you. Her smile softened.
After that, I didn't need it anymore. Do you think it'll ever come back? I don't think so. She looked toward the horizon. Nako knew what he was doing.
What do you mean? He knew that the map wasn't only meant to lead someone to gold. She placed her hand over mine. It was meant to lead me toward my real destiny. And what was that?
Seiya squeezed my hand. You? She looked toward Eli and Ruth. Us. Then back at the ranch.
This family. I leaned over and kissed her. I love you, Seya. She smiled against me. And I love you, Kate Hollis.
Eli and Ruth came racing toward the porch, laughing at the top of their lungs. We lifted them into our arms and held them close. under the Arizona sky on that little ranch we had built through sweat, hardship, and stubborn determination. I realized we were completely happy. We had learned the greatest lesson either of us would ever need. The true treasure is not gold.
It is not wealth. And it is not fame. The greatest treasure is love, family, and finding the person you want beside you for every day you have left. We had found ours in the middle of the desert while danger surrounded us, and we chased a fortune buried by men long dead. In the end, the greatest treasure had always been each other, and that was worth more than all the gold in the world.
And that is where our story ends. The story of a cowboy and an Apache woman who carried a living map across her back. The story of a search that began with the promise of riches and ended by revealing something far more important. The story of two lonely souls who found each other and discovered that the treasure they had truly been searching for had been waiting inside their hearts all along.