Full Summary:
Ty learns he has a twin after his mom shows up at the Ranch. How far will he have to go to finally meet her? How does she react? How do Ty & his friends react when she's found? Will it be a happy reunion? Or will something go bad? Did they end up on the same path, both in Juvie for crimes? Or did she end up on a different path?
Ilena Borden-Chefkov:
A Young Life:
Ilena knew that she wasn't really a Chefkov. Her father Ilari Chefkov had told her that she was adopted because her parents weren't able to have kids at all. Ilena had always wanted to know who her biological family was but it hadn't been an open adoption so she had never been able to find out. Her own parents had allowed her to ask the adoption agency about it but they weren't able to tell him much. She lived with her adoptive family for sixteen years before the car accident stole their lives.
After the car accident, Ilena finished high school but after school, she moved to Australia to start something her parents had dreamed of doing. They owned property in Australia and she had chosen to start up an Animal Sanctuary, something not only her parents had dreamed of doing but something she had always seen herself doing. She still knew exactly what she wanted to learn about her birth family but knew that they didn't want anything to do with her or didn't care that she was trying to get in touch with them at all.
An Australian Princess:
Katie Chefkov looked like her mother as she ran through the halls of their four bedroom house. Katie had the same face, the same smile, and the same laugh. She even had the same height as her mother, though she wasn't as tall as her mom just yet as she was only four years old. She was chasing the lion cub that she and her mother were bottle feeding. There were also two kangaroos, two hawk chicks, a wombat, a koala, and four platypuses. Not all of the animals were in the house, but they did belong to the Sanctuary that her mother ran. The two lion cubs that had been brought to them were malnourished and needed constant work.
Though lions were not native to Australia, the two cubs had been born in the country after a big game hunt went wrong and the lioness had escaped. Katie loved the fact that they could just walk out there door and have an animal to play with all the time. It was something she had always loved about her life. Having grown up nearly her whole life at the Sanctuary, she couldn't see herself anywhere else. But alas, life was not going to be kind to her. She and her mother were being forced to leave Australia.
A Prosperous Life:
Ilena and Katie had packed up their home as well as all the animals in their care. They were headed back to Ilena's home, where she had grown up. The Chefkov's still had property in Hudson, Alberta where Ilena had been raised. She knew exactly what she would do. She had all the permits for the animals and would just start up a Sanctuary in Hudson. She knew that her neighbors in Australia had only turned on her because she had taken in the lion cubs. She had sold the property she had purchased but had kept the house. She didn't want to but she knew that it was the only way for her daughter to see the world.
Katie was in the back seat with the cubs. All three were sleeping and the rest of the animals were in the back of the truck. Since it was snowing outside, the animals were all wearing some kind of blanket to keep them warm. Ilena saw a Café up ahead and pulled into a parking lot and hopped out. She woke her daughter, grabbed the bottle bag, helped Katie out and then both grabbed a cub. They walked into the Café together and every head turned towards them.
All talking in the Café stopped and though everyone stared, nobody really did anything. Ilena and Katie took a seat at a four-top (table with four chairs) and proceeded to look at the menu on the table. A young looking waitress walked over and asked what they wanted and they ordered. It was an uncomfortable stop but it would have to do until they got to the Chefkov family Cabin a little ways out of town.
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