HI EVERYONE! HERE'S YET ANOTHER ONE OF MY FICS, AND I HOPE YOU ALL LIKE IT AS MUCH AS I DO.

AS ALWAYS, PLEASE REVIEW AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF IT!

I OWN NOTHING EXCEPT FOR MY OC'S, JOHN AND MAX.

SUMMARY: JUST WHEN TORI THOUGHT HER LIFE WAS GETTING BACK ON TRACK, HER FAMILY'S PAST COMES BACK WITH A vengeance…

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'Dearest Victoria,

If you are reading this, then the time has come for me to pass on from this world. I'm so very sorry my little one, but such things just happen.

Know that I will always love you, and that your mother and I are together watching over you. Know that no matter where you go or what you become, you will always be our little Tori... making us proud to call you our own.

Now my sweetheart, I leave to you all in my possession. The manor and everything is to go to you and only you. When you reach your 21st birthday, the full estate shall be granted to you in order carry on the Hanson name and the proud traditions we have upheld.

I know your Aunt Elanor and Uncle John will take great care of you in my stead and I know that you will make them as proud as you have always made me.

Great things await you my little one, I know it in my heart.

I love you Tori...'

John McCall read the letter over again as he saw his four-year-old niece and his wife walking through the large parlor of the Hanson manor.

Elanor, his wife, was from the wealthiest family in Blue Bay Harbor, the Hansons. When her parents had passed, Elanor and her brother Nikolas inherited everything.

Nikolas had married a very kind and beautiful woman, Joanna. Two years later they were blessed with Tori. Unfortunately for the Hansons, the joy was short lived. Only a few weeks after giving birth, Joanna fell ill and passed away, leaving Tori with her father and aunt.

It was around that time when John set his eyes on Elanor, and from the day they said 'I Do' he planned on taking her for everything she was worth. There was never any love involved on his part; just greed that drove him... and he wouldn't stop until he was in complete control of the Hanson estate.

The passing of his brother-in-law had thrown a major wrench in the works as he found the letter giving everything to the little brat he and his wife had been stuck with.

He would have to take care of her as well, but he would have to wait nearly seventeen years before everything was official, but he was willing to wait it out in order to get what he wanted.

As the time went by, John could see that his act was failing with his wife. Elanor was no fool, and knew that her husband was after something.

It was six years after her brother's passing that Elanor finally approached John on the subject of their marriage. They had had an argument and Elanor left the house, leaving Tori with the maid for a bit.

Tori, now ten, watched as her Auntie Ellie got into her car and drove down the long and winding driveway that lead to the open road.

Elanor never made it home that night...

Tori was told by her Uncle John that her car had ran off the road, crashing into a tree. Tori was utterly numb inside. She knew something else was going on, but she didn't want to start anything with her Uncle out of fear of what he may do to her.

After the services, John began his plan to finally have all that he wanted. His greed and want for power kept him blind to everything else.

Tori was immediately enrolled in a boarding school not too far away from Blue Bay Harbor, and as the time went by, she knew that she just had to find out what her Uncle was really up to before it was too late...