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Arriving back at the ranch, Glenn parked the car up and took Lilly with him to tend to the horses, as Mel helped Mark with the shopping and her suitcases

"You ok darlin? You have been awfully quiet since we left the supermarket did Miss Thomas say anything?" how did you tell a man who was a devoted father and husband that people thought you were mistreating your child, that the love the two men had for each other seemed wrong to others

"Yes I am fine thank you I need to go unpack" holding her arm he stopped her after placing the rest of the shopping on the counter

"One thing I have noticed about you little one is that you are not a good liar, so please tell me what is bothering you" his hand took her cold one in his, whilst his other brushed the hair from her face around her cold ear. It was so warm inside, she wanted to strip down to t shirt and shorts, or was that more to do with Mark's presence.

"I….." shaking her head, she couldn't tell him, his finger went under her chin as her brought her lips to his, softly coaxing her to kiss him, settling her he pulled back, looking into her eyes

"Let me guess, she thinks whatever Glenn and I are is wrong and she thinks we are mistreating Lilly" her eyes shot to his, how did he know. Shit he had hoped it would be different over here, that Lilly wouldn't be damaged again. Walking to the cabinet he poured himself a whiskey brushing his hands through his hair, leaning against the counter he swallowed.

"It won't be the first time and it certainly won't be the last darlin, it's now a case of protecting both you and Lilly. We had this back in the US, when we had Lilly, ahh I can see by that look in your eye you would love to know if either Glenn or I had her wouldn't you. "

"I never thought to ask it's not my business Mark, it's between you Glenn and Lilly's mum"

"Lilly' s mum was beautiful you know, strong, and brave even at the end, we were blessed to know her and in time when Lilly is ready she gave us a parcel to give to her, with strict instructions to give it to her when she was 10 years old. For some reason Becky thought she would be old enough then to understand what had happened, why we did what we did" Pouring another whiskey this time with some soda in he handed it to Mel

"Here, you are going to need this, Glenn and Lilly will put the food away, I want you to know all about Lilly's mum" taking the drink she followed Mark through a door she hadn't even noticed before, into what could be described as an office or some sort, Two computers and lap tops were on separate desks with chairs, along one wall was a large comfy sofa with lots of pillows. What had caught Mel's attention were the various photo's of Lilly about a few hours old, taken with a young girl, green eyes and dark hair, she was stunning, yet so young.

"That darlin is my daughter" seeing the tears in Mark's eyes, she sat down on the sofa, shocked had he oh god no he hadn't touched his…..

"No Lilly isn't mine, before you start thinking that way, she is a gift from my daughter to both Glenn and I, sit down darlin" Sitting down Mark waited for a moment, he didn't come into the office often it hurt to see Becky's photos, she should be here bringing Lilly up, not her dad and his husband, yet god had chosen to take her too soon from his life,

"So …."

"Beck was just 18 when she had Lilly, god I remember the day she told Glenn she was pregnant he was like a mother hen with her, checking her fluffing her pillows, both hadn't known how to tell me. You see before Glenn and I became involved we messed around with women, thought we could make it work, and I tried hell honey I was known in the circuit as one night stand, I hate to say it but I met them, took them home, fucked them and threw them out. I had no morals when it came to women they were all well let's just say, I wasn't proud of what I did. It was around two years of being with Glenn, we were on tour, just done a match at the arena and headed back to the hotel. There sat outside our room was a small bundle at first we thought it was dirty clothes, it wasn't it was Becky, hell she looked dirty and thin as though she never had a damn meal in her whole life. She was asleep with a birth certificate in her hand"

Mark couldn't help the tears falling down his face, how he missed her, her personality lit up a room, the love she gave to both her dad and his husband was unbelievable, yet she never allowed people to know who she was, Even when the media dug deep into both the men's lives when it came out they were married, and were arrested, no one found out about Becky.

Mel leaned over and rubbed his back, waiting, knowing he had to talk about it, yet hating how much he was hurting. Wiping his hand down his face, he stared at his favourite photo one that sat above his desk, Lilly was 20 minutes old, resting on her mum naked, her little bum in the air, snuggling against her mummy's neck. Becky had her arm around her, holding her close, knowing it wasn't long before she had to let her go, her body had been under too much stress. She looked so carefree as she looked at her daughter with so much love in her eyes.

"I carried her sleeping body into our hotel room and laid her on Glenn's bed, he had managed to take the paper from her hands and read that she was Becky Sure, and her dad was Mark Calaway. I was taken back, that this little thing was mine" Mark started laughing, as he remembered when she woke up, shaking his head

"She was a little hell cat when she woke, all claws and bitching, it took us about half an hour to calm her down and make her realise she had found her dad"

"But Mark she could have been anyone's"

"Vince was the one who checked into it, did the tests and got rid of any evidence, she was mine alright from her green eyes to her bad temper, but hell we loved her."

"How did she find you? What about her mum?"

"Her mum had thrown her out, said she was costing her too damn much, for gods sake how the hell can a ten year old cost you too much, she was skinny as a damn rake, god knew the last time she had eaten. But she had found me, how I will never know but she did, and I was lucky she did, that kid was the best thing apart from Glenn that was in my life, after the first few weeks of her temper, and running away, we made it work you know, she called us both daddy, cuddle us, hugged us, we loved her so damn much" Taking his whiskey he drank, this was so much harder than he thought it would be, never had either men told a soul other than those closest about this, about Lilly.

"So how did? I mean what happened Mark"

"She grew up with our support, she was determined little mite wasn't going to let anyone know who her daddy's were, she used her mother's maiden name, studied of all things to be a law student. Sara was good with her, she was my valet when I wrestled back in the US, but that is another story for another day. Sara and I acted as though we were married it took the limelight from Glenn and I, Sara treated her as a daughter and she treated Sara as a mum. To this day we have never heard from the bitch who gave birth to her, and now I know we never will, she lost the opportunity to see Becky grow up into the beautiful girl she was, and god was I so fucking blessed to be there. Never, I mean never Mel did I regret for a moment that little girl, then one night she came to me telling me she was expecting my grandchild. It was a damn shock she was 18, we had protected her from everything, but not the damn scumbag ,who held her to the ground and took what wasn't his to take. Becky didn't think of it like that you know she said that the baby was a blessing something to be cared for and loved after pain. She was damn right you know, it was around two months before Lilly was due, Becky was losing weight, couldn't walk far.

Vince was great you know, got her to the top doctors, did anything he could, but it wasn't to be. Do you have any damn idea how hard it is for a parent to be told your daughter is dying that there's not a damn thing they can do about it, that if they didn't operate soon and take lilly out she could die too"

Resting his head against the wall, he couldn't carry on , it hurt too much had it only been 6 years since they had lost her, shoulders shaking he cried, broken in front of Mel, it hurt so damn much. Mel grabbed his whiskey and went to get another from the kitchen, the shopping had been put away, and she could hear Glenn and Lilly laughing in the hall as they headed into the living room. Going back to Mark she shut the door , handing him his drink she sat next to him taking his shaking body into her arms. Smoothing his hair down kissing his cheek, she just calmed him best she could, how hard it must have been having had Becky in their lives and then to be told they could lose her and the unborn baby.

"Could the doctors?"

"Nooo, they couldn't do a damn thing, hell all the money we threw at them and they couldn't do a thing her body was shutting down and no one knew why the hell it was"

"So Lilly …." Sitting up he placed his elbows on his knees rolling the glass between his hands.

"My beautiful granddaughter was born into the world at 11-00am the following day that photo up there was taken 20 minutes after she was born, the rest around the room are between then and four hours after she was born. That was when Becky was taken from us, she died where she wanted to be in both mine and Glenn's arms"

"Oh god Mark the pain you must have suffered what you both suffered all of you" her heart broke the tears she had been keeping at bay fell down her face for this proud man and his husband and the little girl who didn't know her mummy.

"She died at 3-01pm, that was what is written down, Lilly was placed in a cot, a child without a mum and dad, an orphan really. I got up drained, exhausted and held her to me, the poor little mite had no one, the nurse and doctor came in a few hours later, saying she needed feeding and gave me all the equipment to feed her with" His head fell back again against the wall, hell he was still shocked by their words, even now

"I asked them what would happen to Lilly now, I was all ready to say I will adopt her bring her up, they said she was going home with her dad's. Shock didn't come into it, where was the damn dad I was going to kill the little shit, he handed me her birth certificate, on it was mine and Glenn's names. And a letter, signed by Becky and her lawyer, saying that Lilly was our daughter, her gift to us, to love protect and guide. She would be a very lucky little girl having two daddy's just like she was, and she loved us both forever"

"So Becky had given Lilly to you both, oh god Mark that is so special so heartbreaking, yet so wonderful" holding Mark tight in her arms her tears still falling, she knew that these men and Lilly were special now she knew for a fact they were and no Miss Thomas was going to say any different, she would protect them all if she had to.