EPOV
"He said… he said… he could say he fucked the sister of The Christian Grey." She slumps in his arms. He hears the gasps and the roar of "What the fuck?"
Elliott couldn't believe what he was hearing. He ignored his mother's reprimand of "your language Elliott".
He bent down next to Christian and brushed the hair out Mia's face. He looked at his brother and saw the look of murder in his eyes.
"Who Mia? Who told you that?"
She hiccupped and looked at her oldest brother. "Ethan."
Elliott looked at Christian and nodded once. He stood up and turned to Kate who was pale.
"Ethan wouldn't do that much less say it."
He stalked to Kate and his mother touched his arm.
"Are you calling my sister a liar, Kate?" Christian roared.
He too stood next to Elliott while Grace comforted Mia. He felt his dad come to him.
"Sons please, we need to be calm down. We have a lot of guests outside. Elliott, take Kate outside and attend your guests. Christian, have your security find Ethan and bring him to my study. Grace, you and Ana take Mia upstairs."
"Dad?" Elliott and Christian said at the same time.
"Now." He shouted.
Everyone was shocked because they had never heard Carrick raise his voice before but that didn't stop them from moving. Grace and Ana coaxed Mia upstairs, Christian talked to Taylor and Sawyer who took off, and Elliott turned and went outside with Kate following.
"Elliott, please stop."
"Not now Kate. I just want to find your brother and beat the shit out of him."
"How do you know she's telling the truth? I know my brother and he would never do something like this."
He stopped suddenly at Kate ran into him. He looked at her. "Are you telling me my sister is lying and she is in there crying for nothing, because she can?"
"Come on Elliott, even you have said Mia is a drama queen."
"Don't fucking go there Kate! I was joking when I said that. She's my sister and I know she wouldn't lie. Just go in there and take care of your guests."
"What the fuck, Elliott? Those are our guests, yours and mine."
He just stared at her and walked off.
MPOV
She let her mom and Ana take her to her room and change. She couldn't stop the tears from flowing. She wasn't sobbing so hard but the tears continued. She was faintly aware of the music playing outside. She curled up into a ball on her bed. Grace covered her and sat with Ana on her bed. Neither said a word. She finally fell asleep.
She woke up to raised voices coming from downstairs. She pulled on a robe and opened her door. She saw sawyer sitting in a chair next to her door. He saw her and stood.
"What's going on? Why are you outside my door?"
"Everyone is talking in the family room and Mr. Grey wanted to make sure you weren't bothered."
"You mean he didn't want Ethan to enter my room."
Sawyer didn't answer just gave her a sympatric look. She walked past him and he followed her down the stairs. The voices grew louder and she heard her father.
"I want to talk to him too, Elliott but right now we need to calm down. We can't go all halfcocked. You and Christian need to calm down. We're all upset and angry."
"Excuse me mom but fuck that. I want him to repeat what he said to Mia." Elliott said.
"We don't even know what he said to her so she could be lying." Kate says.
"Kate, you are my son's fiancée but I don't appreciate you calling my daughter a liar." Grace says.
"I'm not calling her a liar but maybe she heard wrong."
That was it. She was beyond livid. She stormed into the room with Sawyer right behind her. Everyone looked at her as she entered.
"Really Kate, I misunderstood when he told his friends that he finally done it, that he didn't expect it to take so many months to get me into bed, that it was pure torture. That I had no intellect, no goals, I was spoiled, and I got everything I wanted from my brother. That all I wanted to was shop, that I didn't know what to do because I was a virgin but at least he got what he wanted. He could say that he fucked Christian Grey's sister. Do you think I misunderstood all of that? Answer me, do you?"
Everyone jumped when she shouted the last question. Mia never shouted, she got mad but it wasn't in her personality to shout. She started to go down when Sawyer was there to catch her. Christian ran and took her from his arms and took her to the sofa where he cradled her. Ana came to sit next to Christian and rubbed Mia's back while her own tears fell.
APOV
She looked at her husband and knew he was struggling to control his anger. What Ethan had done to Mia was unforgivable and if she knew her husband and she did, he was blaming himself. She couldn't believe that Ethan had acted so callously. She thought he really was falling for Mia. It was all an act. She had known Ethan for many years and she never expected him to do something like this. He had been nothing but kind and friendly toward her. Christian always thought he wanted into her panties but he thinks like that about all men.
She also couldn't believe Kate was calling Mia a liar, especially in front of her family. She acted like Mia was making it all up. She looked around the room and saw Carrick comforting Grace, Elliott was pacing, and Kate sat there like she was bored. That made Ana angry. With one last look at Mia, she turned to Kate and spoke.
"Kate, I think it's best if you go home. We need to be her for Mia and it's obvious that you don't believe her."
"What? You are throwing me out? Who do you think you are? This isn't your house."
"This may not be my house but this is my family and we need to be alone."
"This is my family too."
Before she could respond Christian did. "Not yet it isn't."
Before she could answer, Carrick did. "Ana's right Kate, you need to go home. Everything will be clearer in the morning. We all need to calm down."
Ana didn't flinch at the daggers coming her way from Kate's eye. She watched as she stood and walked to the door. She watched Kate look behind her and notice Elliott was not following. She looked at Ana and then at Elliott.
"Let's go Elliott."