O ye of little faith... AGAIN.

Quick shout out to: Carolyn1960, SavieT and Madi for calling out some of the absurd reactions to the last chapter. Over all, I loved how invested you all are and how you reacted but some reviews really surprised me. Still, I'll take it as a compliment I guess, the point is to get a reaction and I guess I got one. Also, can someone confirm if that one guest review threatened to murder me? I want ot be sure i'm not overreacting myself.

Chapter song: Weaker Girl – BANKS

I wrote this chapter with this song on repeat and imagined Ana finally finding her strength to face everything head on. This is Ana's fight, not Christian's.

Chapter 76 – I think you need a weaker girl but ima need a bad motherfucker like me

Present day: Tuesday, September 8th, 2020

CPOV

"Aana and I have an announcement to make." Vishaal smirks in my direction.

"Actually..." Ana begins. "Why don't you sit down, I wanted to say something first before we tell everyone what was decided." She smiles at him. He nods back in agreement and takes his seat. He's fully relaxed and sure of himself while we are all on pins and needles.

What the hell is she doing?

"I've given this some thought and after talking to Vishaal, I've reached a decision. Before I announce my intention, I want to take a moment to say a few things." She takes her time looking at everyone as she speaks. Her face is impassive and her voice is calm and measured.

"I owe a lot to this family. For accepting me like they did and giving me all the love in the world, especially in my time of need. This family has brought me back from the unimaginable. You all have done your part in trying to help me literally get back on my feet. I am forever in your debt for this. Which is why, in light of this debt..." She turns to Vishaal and Kiran and smiles at them with tears in her eyes.

Don't do this, Ana. Please don't do this.

A movement catches my eye. I see her clenched fists relaxed and she subtly holds out the number one. Immediately in my periphery, I see Mr. Benoit casually walk into the room and stand a few feet away from where Ana is. It dawns on me she has the same hand signals with him that she has with Sawyer for her safety. I realize what she's doing and I can feel myself relax only slightly.

"I feel that the only way that I can repay you all, is to do what is right for this family." Vishaal nods in her direction with a look of encouragement. "And that right thing is... to accept the responsibility that my grandmother entrusted me with to assume ownership for AHAK-Steele International and carry on both her and Nana's legacy to the best of my ability." Tears fall from her eyes and her voice shakes but she does her best to hold firm.

"THAT IS NOT WHAT WE FUCKING DECIDED." Vishaal shouts at her.

"No. It is what Nani decided and I accept her decision." She calmly replies.

"This is bullshit, AHAK is supposed to be ours. We're her direct, BLOOD relatives. You're not even legally adopted by Nita Khala." Kiran responds.

"FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP KIRAN. AANA HAS EVERY RIGHT TO ALL THIS." Rania shouts at her and everyone looks in their direction. "Blood is absolute bullshit. Time and love is our bond with her and it stronger than blood. It's like you've learned nothing from Nana and Nani but then again why would you, you're so fucking self-absorbed." Kiran, just stares at Rania in disbelief.

"Aana, you're being fucking ridiculous. You said that you would do what is right for this family." Vishaal looks back at Ana, completely ignoring Rania's outburst.

"You're right, I did. And the right thing is to rid this family of a rapist. A man who I looked up to as a brother but he tried to manipulate me and then molested me while I was under the influence of sleeping medication during recovery, when I couldn't move or fend for myself. A man who brutally raped me the weekend before I left for college and then terrorized me for the last five years, making me believe that I was weak because I had no proof. That this family would disown me and I was so stupid to believe all of that."

"You're fucking lying." He says with clenched teeth.

"Bhai would never do that. How dare you accuse him of such a heinous thing? He has only loved you. We all have only loved you." Kiran screams.

Before she can answer, Alia gets up and walks to Ana and embraces her, whispering something in her ear but Ana immediately pushes her back crying and starts screaming at her in Urdu. She looks back at Nita who stands up to say something but is interrupted.

"PLEASE SAY WHAT YOU NEED TO SAY IN ENGLISH." The lawyer tries to bring a sense of order to the room.

"S-she just told me to marry her son so that the company stays within the family. That this is all just a misunderstanding, that I should look past this." Ana cries.

"Mrs. Kapadia, please take a seat." The lawyer instructs her.

"After all that we have done for you, this is how you repay us; by falsely accusing my son of rape? Is this what you told Ma? Is that why she gave you the company? You're a disgrace. You should be grateful that he even took an interest in you." Alia's tone is full of indignation. Her husband joins her and tells Nita how disappointed he is in her and Ana but they ignore him.

"After all that you have done for me?" She scoffs but then starts to scream at Rish and Aila. "YOUR SON RAPED ME FOR HOURS IN A CLUB THAT NIGHT THEN HE RAPED ME IN THIS HOUSE. I COULD NOT WALK OR EAT PROPERLY FOR TWO WEEKS. I HAD ROPE BURNS AND BELT MARKS ON MY BODY. FOR MONTHS I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO ME TILL HE TRIED TO CONVINCE ME TO CHANGE THE NATURE OF OUR RELATIONSHIP. THAT'S WHEN IT ALL MADE SENSE TO ME BUT HE CONTINUED TO THREATEN ME. TRYING TO BREAK ME DOWN TILL I CAVED..." She takes a moment to catch her breath. "And we have him on tape admitting to it. Your son is not the angel you believe him to be Alia Khala."

"YOU'RE LYING." Aila screams back.

"Did you all read clause number 11 of the attendance agreement you signed?" Ana looks to the room. No one speaks but some of us nod. I vaguely remember reading about the meeting being recorded. They lawyer confirms my memory and I see the shock register on Vishaal's face.

Mr. Benoit takes out his phone and goes through it and suddenly we hear Ana's voice come through the sound system.

"You raped me. I never gave my consent."

"It's not rape when two people love each other."

"I didn't love like you like that. You were my brother. I looked up to you as a brother."

"Fine, you're so fucking stubborn. I raped you but you loved it Aana, I wish you'd stop denying it."

"I couldn't walk or eat for days, Vishaal... "

"Okay, fine. I'm sorry. I'll never do it again. Is that what you want? Can we move past this? Will you come back to me? I will take care of you Aana. Go back to Seattle with him and grant us access to his servers and we'll erase that shit he has on you and then you can come back to me and we can move on from all of this... and even if he still has shit. We can weather the storm. I promise you we can. I love you."

I hear Nita stifle a sob and everyone's jaw hit the floor. The fucking piece of shit has no remorse whatsoever.

Ana speaks again. "Remember what you used to say to me Vishaal? Saphir, never go for the jugular it's too messy. You want to win, break the mind and the rest will follow. It may take time but that's the beauty of delayed gratification."

HOLY FUCK. I'm really going to murder this son of a bitch.

I lunge for Vishaal, knocking him to the ground and start to punch the shit out of his face as I hear screams around the room and soon I feel two pairs of hands try to pull me and hold me back.

"NO DON'T TOUCH HIM." I hear Ana scream as she pushes off Raees and Karan who are holding my arms away. "Christian.. don't please..." She holds my face and looks into my eyes pleadingly "He's not worth it. He will be taken care of." She looks at me willing to concede and I nod trying to catch my breath while taking a step back.

"YOU SAID YOU WERE LEAVING HIM. YOU'RE NOT EVEN WEARING HIS RING." Vishaal says getting up from the floor to sit on the couch as he wipes his face and spitting blood back out.

"I NEVER SAID THAT." She turns around and picks up her bag to go through it and quickly puts her ring back on. "DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M LEAVING HIM NOW?" She holds her hand up."Mr. Benoit told me not to wear my ring to the meeting today. I didn't understand why but trusted him and then it all made sense to me the minute the Mr. Hawthorne made the correction. You thought I'd believe he cheated on me with YOUR girlfriend? He told me about her seeking him out. He would never keep anything like that from me."

I see the shock on Scooter face. Raees is silent as he covers his mouth, slowly shaking his head. I see the anger radiating from Rania while she stands with clenched fists and tears falling from Aashu's eyes. Karan and his father look ashen and embarrassed.

Ana quickly turns around and asks the lawyer to give her the document to sign that gives her ownership of the company.

"DON'T YOU DARE SIGN THAT." Vishaal roars as he stands up again from the couch

She ignores him and continues to sign. Once it's done, she walk around the table again and begins to speak. "It's done. You four are persona non grata at any AHAK properties and from now on, this family. All of your personal belongings will be delivered to you at a later time. Mr. Benoit, please escort them off the premises."

"You're killing us... just like you killed our child." Vishaal says through clenched teeth as he lunges for Ana. Gasps and screams of shock fill the room but Mr. Benoit immediately quickly pulls Ana back behind him, taking out his gun aiming it at Vishaal, while Raees and Karan hold me back again.

"Boy, you are making this worse for yourself. Sit your ass back down. ALL OF YOU. Anyone of you four comes near her; I will put a bullet in your head. I am not playing around." He shouts.

Everyone silently retreats and takes a seat while he puts his gun away but Ana remains standing.

"The child you are referring to... was NOT yours because I was NEVER pregnant. I was helping your sister after she after she flew into Portland in a panic." Ana shouts, shivering from what just happened.

He looks at Kiran in confusion. "You told me that Ana got an abortion."

"She lied." Ana responds. "Like always, she lied."

"What the fuck is she talking about Kiran?" Scooter looks at her.

"Baby, it's nothing... " Kiran tries to assuage him but it's not working.

"It is definitely something. Daniel, I am so sorry to tell you like this. I hope you can forgive me one day and understand where I was coming from but a month and half after I started college, Kiran came to Portland in a panic and said she hooked up with someone while partying one night in New York when you were setting up the European offices and I finally found out who it was on the night of Aashu's club party... she's been hooking up with Jack Rothstein. I suspect that it was his baby. If you check her phone, he's listed under a pseudonym called Jaan which means..."

"Life... I know what it means." He says in defeat. In this moment, I really feel for him. Scooter looks at Kiran in disbelief. "You fucking promised me that it was over. I forgave you and you told me that Aana was the one who needed your help because she got pregnant after a random hookup... WHAT THE FUCK KIRAN?"

"No, baby... she's lying, I would never do that to you." Kiran cries.

Holy fucking shit. Scooter knew and still married her.

"I'm sorry Daniel. I'm so sorry." Ana says. Scooter gets up and tells everyone he's leaving, that he can't be around any of this shit anymore and walks out.

"Mr. Benoit, before you escort these four individuals out of here, there is one more piece of information that needs to be made known." Mr. Hawthorne speaks. "Mrs. Karim called for an internal investigation in December of last year to be conducted by a third party source to do some forensic auditing and it was found that Mr. Vishaal Kapadia has been embezzling money from AHAK for the past 7 years with the help of his father and the current CFO at this time. All this information, along with the consented recorded conversations here today will be submitted as evidence. Mr. Benoit will be taking care of the arrangements on that." He gets up and starts to collect his things along with his team.

"This is complete bullshit. I'm calling my lawyer." Vishaal snarls and turns to head out of the room. Suddenly I'm reminded that we all had to turn in our phones at the door before entering the room for the meeting.

"Oh, this phone?" Mr. Benoit takes it out of his pocket. "Sorry, I dropped it." He gives Vishaal back a completely trashed phone. This man may not like me but I definitely like him right now.

A team of CPO's walk in and escort Rish, Alia and Kiran out of the room. Vishaal tries to leave but Mr. Benoit stops him. "We have a special escort for you. Till then sit your ass down." He growls and Vishaal complies begrudgingly.

Nita follows her sister out and we hear both women shout at each other for a few minutes before there is complete silence again and she walks back in to the room, with tears falling from her eyes.

A few minutes later, the front door opens again and a man who identifies himself as the DA along with Chief of Police and a few officers walk in to read Vishaal his rights and handcuff him. Before they take him away he says something to Ana in Urdu as they try to drag him but she asks them to stop.

"I will NEVER forgive you. You knew what you did was wrong and you kept doing it. For that you don't deserve forgiveness or mercy. I never did anything to you and you unleashed hell upon me. You kept me away from my family. I lived in so much fear but I am going to move on now and marry the man I love and have his children and be blissfully happy with MY FAMILY while you rot in jail for the rest of your life. You are of no consequence to me anymore. I hope you live with the same kind of pain and fear you have inflicted upon me for the remainder of your years. Happy Birthday, Vishaal. " She enunciates each word, dripping with anger and hurt.

The lawyers take their leave and it's just Ana, Nita, myself, Karan, his father Arsh, Aashu, Rania and Raees in the room. We're all silent for a few moments trying to absorb the enormity of what just happened.

Ana is the first to speak as she walks closer to Karan's father. "Uncle Arsh, I am so sorry. I know how hard you've worked to buy back the shares to your company but unfortunately, AHAK can no longer be in business with KGI, I know how this will affect the company but it has to be done."

Arsh nods with a sad smile. "I understand. I'm sorry for what you went through. I am glad you're about to get justice. Aisha Hasan made the right choice." He hugs Ana and tells everyone he's heading back to the hotel and for Rania to make the arrangement to inform KGI shareholders of the breach to the morality clause via official notice from AHAK.

"I... I ... need a minute." Ana runs out of the room and I follow her up the stairs to the second floor where she heads straight for the bathroom and I see her throw up in the toilet. I hold her hair as she continues. Once she stops she pushes me away.

"Not right now, please don't touch me right now... I need to wash all this off." She starts to violently sob.

"What happened, Ana?" I sit next to her and she looks back at me.

"I'm so sorry... I just had to make it believable. He held my hands and kissed my hair. I had to let him believe that I was on his side." She covers her face. "I needed to get him to confess..." She shakily gets up and starts to aggressively wash her arms with soap as she cries. She washes her face almost scratching her skin. I help her dry off after she uses some mouthwash to get rid of the taste of bile and pull her in to my embrace where she holds me tight and continues to sob.

"It's over, Ana." I say softly. "He's gone from your life. You were so brave and I'm so proud of you, baby."

"I wish she were here to see it. I just wish she was still with me." She whimpers. I hold her face and wipe her tears. "According to the letter she wrote me, she said she was here in spirit, I half suspect she had possessed Mr. Benoit." I smile and she giggles.

"She left me a letter too." She takes a deep breath. "She said, you made me promise not to do anything to him. Instead, I am providing you with the tools to get your justice. All the puzzle pieces are laid out and all you have to do is put them together, that she had faith that I could do anything and that she loved me." She wipes her face of the new wave of tears.

"Clause number 11?" I murmur.

"Yeah. I didn't think much of it when I signed the agreement and then after reading her letter with the deed to the Scott Street house, I was still confused... then with the lawyer's mistake... it just didn't make sense till he made the correction. I didn't think it would work but I had to try. I had to make him believe that I wanted to go back to him, not wearing the ring helped, especially after he showed me a picture of you and Leila at the club when she was on her knees. He used that to try and sway me so I let him think it planted the seed of doubt. I made up some shit that you had stuff on me. He wanted me to grant him access to your servers and then convinced me that I should marry you and that we would orchestrate catching you and Leila together to initiate divorce proceedings so I get half of GEH."

I bark out a laugh. "The fucker really thought it through... too bad it all backfired."

"Yeah, I guess now we know why she sought you out at the club. I told you they'd tried to pull something."

"Again, it backfired baby." I lean in to give her kiss, pulling her close and she responds in kind. Soon interrupted by enthusiastic knocking on the door with Rania's voice from the other side.

"If you guys are done having billionaire sex, can you come back down cause we've got more exciting things to talk about..." She cackles.

Ana bursts out laughing and tells her to fuck off and that we'll be back down in five minutes.

"We need to discuss the billionaire sex by the way. I'm adding that to our agenda for tonight." I smirk and she giggles. I've missed that sound.

We go downstairs and meet everyone back in the room.

"THERE'S MY ALL TIME FAVORITE AND NOW INSANELY RICH COUSIN." Karan cheers making us all laugh. Ana rolls her eyes and he engulfs her in a big bear hug followed by everyone else one by one.

We take our seats and they all look at Ana.

"Why are you all staring at me?" she asks before taking a sip of water.

"Well, you need to give new marching orders." Rania quips. "WE HAVE A NEW BOSS LADY." She claps cheerily making us laugh.

I hold Ana's hand and give it a light squeeze. "Um... well, I was hoping that Karan would step in as CEO and Rania as COO. If this isn't something you want, I'll understand... I would need your recommendations for candidates to fill in those positions including a new CFO and head of Legal if Rania decides to vacate her current position. I have no clue how to run a company like this, so I'll need your help since you all been doing this for a long time and I would like to learn." She looks at the three of us.

"I just have one condition." Rania interjects. "I want my own jet and I want it redone cause I don't trust those two, god know what shit went on in there."

We all burst out laughing and Ana agrees. Karan accepts the position and Rania tells us she'll have the papers drawn up while Aashu agrees to stay on as well to help out in legal.

"Mr. Benoit, I would like for you to take over security at AHAK and include personal security under that umbrella."

"As long as I get my raise." Mr. Benoit shrugs. "Now as delightful as this conversation is. We have an agenda for the rest of the day."

"What do you mean?"

"We have exactly 6 more hours till they officially charge Vishaal and let him see his lawyer. The DA's office is giving that time for us to go to Vishaal's apartment where Miss Williams and Miss Richmond are staying, along with going through the servers at the club. After that, they're searching both places with issued warrants and we won't have access to the evidence."

"What did you promise this DA?" I ask.

"A big fat donation to his Senate campaign." Mr. Benoit smirks. "We've also talked to the DA to help keep Annie's name be listed as Jane Doe on the documents. There's a slim chance that he'll plead not guilty given the dirt we have on him already but he if does, Annie's name will be kept out of it. They're going for maximum sentencing."

"What about Akash? He's also a part of this" Ana says.

"I totally forgot about that pissant. He rolled over like a little bitch when we approached him. He's been helping out. Mrs. Rahman helped out with that as well." Mr. Benoit chuckles and Nita chastises him but he ignores her. "He tried to go for immunity but that didn't fly. He'll get jail time but will eventually be eligible for parole. I know it's not ideal but it's the best we could do."

Ana nods and thinks for a few moments then bursts into tears covering her face. Nita gets up and pulls her into a hug, rubbing her back and kissing her hair as she continues to sob.

"I..I.. I'm sorry... I just feel like... it doesn't feel real... like I can breathe again..." She stammers while wiping her face. "I've waited to feel like this for so long... and I never thought I'd get the chance."

A/N: Vishaal really lost it didn't he? Boy unravelled faster than a house of cards. I tried not to do a cliffhanger but from this point onwards the chapters won't have crazy drama. This was the last of it. Next chapter will deal with the two person sub club and other revelations but nothing crazy that will affect their relationship in a bad way. Just tying loose ends. We are officially out of angst and cliffhanger (at least heart palpitation causing cliffhanger) valley.

Let me know what you think. Just don't threaten my life, cause that's not cool. Also, major shoutout to Liz-Koch-7 for letting me know that my story was voted on the facebook group. GUYS, i've never won anything in my life. haha. I just made a facebook account and am waiting to be granted access into the group. my username is face-book {dot} com [slash]nadiapaleseptember10

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