Sorry everyone, I changed my story mid stream in chapter two. I'm correcting the story now. Thank you for pointing this out. As always, thank you all for your reviews.


Fitz came home to an empty house. The whole house was dark. A cold sweat went down his back as he ran upstairs calling out Liv's name as well as Karen and Jerry. When he got to his room it looked like the place had been ransacked. He ran to Karen and Jerry's room as well and found the same thing. He was about to call the police when he found a note by the side of the bed.

Fitz,

Your whore Mellie came by today to inform me that you have carried on an affair with her for the past two months and she was pregnant. I've gone to Malibu to Stephen's until I can sort this out. I know we need to talk, but I can't face you right now, because if it's true you've killed me and our marriage. This I will never be able to forgive. Give me a day or two and I'll call you.

Your wife,

Olivia

He felt like his heart had stopped. How had he been so foolish with his wife and family. He didn't know what game Mellie was playing but he was going to find out.


Fitz pulled out his phone and dialed her. She picked up after two rings.

"Well Fitzgerald, I see I have your attention now!"

"What the fuck is wrong with you Mellie! Why in the hell would you come to my home and tell my wife we are having and affair. Mellie we were drunk and I told you we should have never slept together. It was a one time thing and I was not going to leave my family under any circumstances!"

"You listen to me Fitz! I am no one's one night stand. You think you can just take what you want and throw me away. I've got news for you buddy, it's not going to happen. I'm pregnant and the baby is your!"

"Really?! I may have been drunk but I still remember that the only one that was having sex was me. A blow jobs does not constitute intercourse. You better pull your head out of your ass and wake up and smell the coffee, because I will get a court ordered paternity test right now to prove that I'm not the father. Once I file slander charges, you don't know who you fucked with! I am going to make you burn Mellie!"

"You can try Fitz, but you have more to lose than I do! I'm sure your law partners would love to have a paternity and slander case blasted all over the newspapers!"

"See this is where you always think your smarter than everyone else Mellie! I am the controlling partner in my law firm. I don't have a problem dragging you through the courts. You've already done your worst. I would let everything burn to the ground before I let you hurt my wife and children. You can add sexual harassment to the charges you bring, because you are so fired. Good luck finding any law firm dumb enough to hire you after I put the word out from coast to coast. You'll be lucky to get a job as a dog catcher. You wanted to see how the Grant power works! Well buck up lady, I am going to destroy you!"

Fitz threw his phone across the room as it shattered into pieces.


He had been sitting with his head back against the couch with the TV on mute for hours. No matter how he tried to find a solution with Olivia that didn't end in divorce, he would feel tears start to prick his eyes.

The one thing, the one thing she asked of him was the one thing he had done! Olivia had lived through a life of infidelity with her father and it had scared her beyond comprehension. It took a year for him to just get her to go out with him. He had fallen in love with her the minute he saw her on campus his freshman year.

They had been inseparable the last three years of college at Harvard. They married that summer after graduation. Their parents were not thrilled that they had gotten married, but they had to allow their head strong children do what was best for them.

Luckily Fitz and Olivia had wealth parents who had saved and put their education funds into trust that they could access when they turned twenty-one. Fitz went on to Harvard Law and Olivia went on to Harvard Medical School. Over the next four to five years Fitz and Olivia were possessed with finishing up school to start their lives. Liv had been granted into a accelerated program that allows you to enter medical school at the beginning of her junior year as long as she maintained a 3.00 or better. She got her undergraduate degree the same time as Fitz, but she was already further down the road toward getting her MD. This allowed them time to finish law school and medical school at the same time.

With the world at their feet they decided to start their new lives in New York. Fitz joined Grant & Grant. The largest law firm in the US. It was started by his father and Uncle thirty years ago. He would be the beginning of the second generation to work there. His father and Uncle were surprised when Fitz walked into the interview process for new associates. He didn't want any favors, he only wanted to earn his way on like anyone else. So, when they looked at Felix Pope's resume they had no idea it was Fitz until he walked in. He told his father and Uncle to sit and continue on with their interview with him. By the time the interview was over, his father and Uncle were so impressed with the way he came into the firm that they hired him at a regular associates pay grade. His father couldn't have been prouder of his son with the way he wanted to work his way to the top like anyone else.

Olivia journey was harder due to her ambitions to be a pediatric neurologist. She had her pick between New York Presbyterian or Mount Sinai. She only wanted to work with the best and that was Dr. Cyrus Beene and he worked at Mount Sinai. Which in itself was a blow to her father who was head of the neurology department at Presbyterian and Cyrus was his mortal enemy. Needless to say, she didn't want him to find out that she was Eli Pope's daughter, so she used Grant for the time being. After a few months of garnering some rapport with Dr. Beene she revealed who she was. She thought he would pass out from laughing. Once he caught his breath, he manged to get out how karma had a way of working things out. She didn't know what them meant, but she was happy that he didn't hold it against her.


After they found their footing in their respective careers, they started a family. Even their first pregnancy was not normal. Twins the first time out. Fitzgerald Thomas Grant IV came out first. He was Fitz through and through, he even had his personality which she was ever so grateful for. Gerry had his father's beautiful blue eyes and curly brown hair. He was lighter than Olivia anticipated, she thought he would be a deeper shade of Carmel than the tan clan that he turned out to be. Gerry brought a whole level of love into Fitz and Olivia's life, they thought that they couldn't get any closer to each other if they tried.

Next came Karen Abigale Grant. Although Fitz cried when he saw Gerry, he sob uncontrollable when he saw Karen. It scared Olivia nearly to death at his reaction. She thought something was wrong until he finally settle down to tell her what all the emotion was about. He was crying because she looked exactly like his wife. He saw his future with such a beautiful daughter as a nightmare of boys surrounding his house. She laughed hysterically at her husbands admission. She told him that their daughter would not use her looks to get anywhere in life with the brain she knew she would have. She kissed her sweet, sweet husband who cradled his daughter and son in his arms. Karen was indeed Olivia's spitting image. She had her deep brown beautiful eyes, her dark brown curly hair, her heart-shaped lips, and the deep Carmel skin. Although Olivia knew she would be a Daddy's girl, she was ready for her spit fire to dominate the house.


There were so many moments like those that Fitz had just flushed down the drain. His children were seven now. He and Olivia had been married now fifteen years, and not listening to his wife's warnings had shattered it all. How was he going to fix this?