When it finally dawned on him what Carla had done, Peter stormed over to the Rover's and demanded a bottle of whiskey, he went behind the bar and stole one before storming out into the back of the pub, he was soon joined by Johnny who watched Peter before stapping in and placing a hand on the bottle and with that Peter broke down, his hands trembling a the intensity of the emotions which rippled through his body. He glanced up and Johnny and he hated him, and he knew it was Carla making him feel this way and there was no way that he would have known about Ray and deep down he understood where these feelings surface from.

"Why Peter, don't do this to Zi and Azalea" Johnny sighs grabbing his phone and sending a text off to Ken, Peter just holds the bottle which was shaking in his hands

"Carla's ruined everything Johnny, Azalea's not mine" Peter states, Johnny frowns utterly confused "She lied to me, it was all a lie!"

"No, she's probably just having an episode, getting confused?"

"She's fine Johnny, just fine, Dr Williams confirmed and now she's got Michelle to take the girls away" Peter states, Johnny sighs as Ken appears, he sits on one of the chairs

"Is it true?" Ken questions, his eyes wide, Peter nods sadly "So sho's her father?"

"Ray Crosby" Peter mutters, Johnny and Ken share a glance "Oh you don't believe me I should have known to be honest but it's true, she will even do a DNA test"

"I think you should" Ken states clearly upset for his son, peter just shrugs and shakes his head not knowing if he could go through the whole thing "Just in case that there's a chance its a delusion, hallucination, something in her head, I really do think its a good idea-"

"No, dad! How can we?!" Peter exclaims resting his head against the wall which he was slumped down "Michelle's taken the kids, I have no clue where she is and she won't answer her phone"

"Then you need to speak to Carla-" Ken states but was soon cut off by Peter,

"Yeah I can't wait for that, really, after she let be bring up another mans child, top of my bucket list that" Peter snipes dropping the bottle on the floor he gets up and walks off

"Peter!" Ken calls, Johnny sighs shrugging, they share a sympathetic look in the situation...

Peter headed back to the house and rummaged through their files, he pulled out Azalea's birth certificate and looked at the information on it, the father to be precise. He sighed at his name on it knowing they were basically committing some sort of seedy crime with not having Azalea's real father on there, he just wished things were different. Peter went upstairs and into the nursery, he picked up one of the baby grows which were in the wash bin and breathed in the scent, the smell of his daughter, well his stepchild now but the scent made him feel calm. He heard the door go and he immediately rushed down the stairs seeing Michelle holding Aziza's hand. He rand to his daughter using all of his strength to lift her into his arms, she accepted his hug.

"You can let go of me you know" Aziza laughs slightly, Peter lets her down wiping his eyes "Why are you sad?"

"I'm not sad I'm just really happy to see you" Peter whispers bending down to her level and kissing her on the forehead, Michelle takes Azalea out of the car seat and bounces her slightly to settle her "I don't suppose you could go upstairs for me sweetheart? I just need to speak to your Aunty 'Chelle"

"Ok" she smiles running up the stairs, Peter sighs rubbing his forehead gently

"I'm sorry, the more I felt about it the more I realised how stupid it was, she begged me and...I didn't know what to do, I really am sorry"

"It's fine it's not your fault," Peter says glancing to Azalea who was being rather restless "I don't know what to do... I've searched my entire head and I'm still clueless"

"I think she's sorry" Michelle smiles, Peter shakes his head "She obviously had a conscience over it and then...she ended up where she was"

"Still, it doesn't excuse what she did" Peter shrugs "When I look at Aziza now, all I see is him and...too many things go through my head"

"I can always go and stay with Johnny with her if that's what you want?" Michelle questions, Peter sighs feeling really guilty even though he shouldn't, this was all down to Carla

"I don't know" Peter bites his lip "Did she way why she did it? How did they even meet?"

"She didn't tell you?" Michelle's eyes widen, Peter's head snaps around and frowns "You need to talk to her Peter, ask her to do a DNA test maybe, there's something that doesn't add up"

"It does though that's the thing, we weren't having sex back then, she was mad at me for not giving her attention but she didn't want sex, she wasn't in the mood and we didn't have sex for weeks, and when we got close to it she would just lie in my arms on a rare occasion, if not then she would just sleep"

"Yeah" Michelle glances down to Azalea who had finally settled, she places her back in the car seat to sleep "It's getting late Peter, I'm going to go and stay with Johnny with her, I have all her stuff packed because I think you need some space to think if you feel the urge to drink just ring me ok, or ring Ken"

"I will, see ya" Peter sigh flopping down onto the sofa, Michelle glances to him sympathetically before lifting the car seat into her arms and leaving the house, this left Peter to mull over his thoughts for the night...

The night dragged and he knew it would, even after everything that happened, the revelations that Carla threw his way he still loved her, no matter what happened between them or would happen between them he knew that he still loved her the only problem is he kept questioning whether she still loved him. Peter stared at the ceiling all night, somewhat confused and the room felt so cold and empty due to the fact Azalea was with Michelle that night but either way it was just confusing for him, the whole thing was. Carla was scared and vulnerable in there but deep down things just didn't seem right and he wanted the entire truth no matter how difficult it was especially after Michelle suggested there was more to what Carla told him, so what he did by morning he got up and phoned Dr Williams and asked to see if he could see Carla who accepted on he basis he remained calm as she was having a somewhat difficult day, he promised and made his way to the hospital.

"Hi" Carla whispers from where she was curled up on the bed, Peter pulls a chair over and sits in front of her "What do you want to know?"

"Everything, Michelle came back and suggested to me that there is more to know?" Peter bends forward resting his elbows on either of his legs

"You're going to hate me" she whispers tearily wiping her eyes, he sighs slightly taking her hand, that's all he was going to do and in a way it helped "I was working for Ray, on the development, I'm sorry"

"What?" Peter's eyes widen, Carla nods sadly "How?"

"I signed a contract unbeknownst to me, I was staying in one of his hotels," she says quietly refusing to give him eye contact which indicated that she was anxious about it

"The first time before you were sectioned?"

"Yeah, sorry" Carla glances down to her hands, Dr Williams enters the room with a cup of medication which she takes, she opens her mouth for him to check "All good?"

"Yeah" Dr Williams nods watching her curl back in bed, he sits on the armchair provided

"Do you remember why you were there?"

"I needed food so I used to leave to get food, then these business people spotted me and I was scared so I went along with it, they got me to dress up and then they...had sex with me"

"Oh love" Peter sighs "You know that's-"

"Rape, I know" she chews her lip "I am sorry"

"You don't need to apologise they shouldn't have taken advantage of you? How does Ray fit into it?"

"He saved me from them, kept me safe, I don't really remember much when I got back to the street I spotted him as he was working for Michelle and he pulled me over to chat to me and then it dawned on me that I did it, I explained to him rapidly, I was scared but he understood surprisingly considering everything that happened with Michelle"

"I see" Peter muses glancing to her, her hands fiddling with the hem of her top "So you had to work for him because it was in the contract"

"Yeah, that's why I went back to Underworld" she shrugs "I needed inside information, company contacts to make Underworld suffer and the land registry deeds which Nick kept in the safe, it was all part of the deal"

"I thought it was weird you going back to work there after everything," Peter says to himself, Carla just stares at him "So you knew everything and you didn't say anything?"

"Ray released me from the contract when he figured out something wasn't right with my head, well after we slept together he did it then knowing that I would be guilt-ridden, he couldn't have people finding out about the development"

"Ok" Peter sighs rubbing his forehead totally overwhelmed with all the information bombarded at him "So what now?"

"That's the truth" she whispers "I'm sorry but...I don't know what else to do, I don't expect you to take me back, quite the opposite anyway. I have support from my family so I don't need you to worry but right now I feel as if we need space, you can stay in the house, look after Zi whilst I stay with Johnny with Azalea"

"If that's what you want" Peter smiles slightly "So this is it then?"

"Yeah I think it's for the best" she sighs sitting up and looking into his eyes, she leans towards him and plants a kiss on his cheek "Bye Peter"

"Bye" he closes his eyes revelling in the feel of her lips for one last time, he stands up and heads to the do, he smiles as he leaves

"Are you ok?" Dr Williams asks, Carla just shrugs and nods "Let me know if you want to talk about anything yeah?"

"I will" she confirms lying back down on her bed "I just want to sleep, if that's ok?"

"That's fine" Dr Williams smiles watching her pull the cover over her, he leaves the room as well leaving Carla to think about the events that just happened