Chapter 25
Jason walked into Jake's. The dark atmosphere reminded him of his life. He really had nothing. Everyone was gone, Carly, Robin, Elizabeth. No one cared anymore, nothing mattered. All he had was the organization and he was quickly becoming disillusioned with it. It wasn't what he wanted anymore. He didn't know exactly what it was that he did want, but he did know what he didn't.
He didn't want a life where he constantly had to look over his shoulder. He didn't want to be alone.
~~~
Luke looked at Cia and then back at Lucky. "Okay, here's what's gonna happen. Cia, you and Lucky are going to become best friends. You don't go anywhere without him or me with ya, got it?"
"Dad, do you really think that it's that much of a threat?" Lucky asked.
"Lucky, right now, I don't know much of anything. We've got Cassadines popping up outta nowhere and Helena planning the end of the world. Until we get time to sit down and discuss this with Robert, I don't want her unprotected."
"We may be able to get some help from Sonny."
"Do what you have to do," Luke said as the phone rang. "Yeah," he said as a greeting. "What kind of meeting? Yeah, we'll be there. He's right here, I'll tell him."
"Who was that?" Lucky asked as Luke hung up the phone.
"Nikolas. It seems that our back from the dead Cassadines are having a little get together at Wyndemere tonight to discuss Helena. Everyone's going to be there," he looked at his son, "including Lisa Marie."
~~~
Helena knocked on the door of Alexis' penthouse but didn't get an answer. She sighed and tried the handle to find it locked. "Well Natasha, honestly."
"Tsk, tsk, Mother," Danielle said stepping off the elevator. "Didn't I tell you years ago to leave Alexis alone?"
"Hello, darling. It has been a long time."
"Not long enough."
"I hear that you are working with Mikkos."
"Who would kill you if he knew that you were here."
"He wouldn't kill me."
"Wanna bet?" Zander asked stepping off the elevator. "From what I hear, I think he would."
~~~
Maria hung up the phone and leaned back in her chair as Nikolas done the same. "So do you mind telling me what's going on?" he asked her.
"It's a long story."
"I have time."
"Not that much," she said with a grin.
"Enlighten me."
She sighed. "My mother is Helena's daughter and my father was Mikkos' son."
"You're right, this is a long story."
"Told you." She smiled and stood up. "If they ask, tell them that I went into town to take care of something," she said before leaving.
~~~
"Well, Zander..." Helena began but Danielle cut her off.
"Leave, Mother."
"I honestly..."
"Mother." Helena looked between her daughter and Zander before sighing and pushing past them to the
elevator. "A piece of advice, Mother dear, don't mess with my family. I will kill you." Helena stepped onto the elevator and disappeared from sight.
"You should have killed her," Zander said.
"I know, but I have bigger plans."
"Sydney?"
"And Maria." Zander unlocked the door of the penthouse and the two walked inside. Danielle laid her things on the desk as Zander walked into the kitchen.
~~~
Stefan walked into the library and found Nikolas standing by the window looking out over the grounds. He frowned slightly. He had much to tell Nikolas. Everything the boy had ever believed was false. Nothing that he had ever been told about his family was true. It was all a lie. Everything was a lie. He walked to him and laid a hand on his shoulder. Nikolas turned to face him. "Nikolas, there is much that you have to know and there isn't much time."
"What's going on?" Nikolas asked.
"Where is Maria?"
"She had something to do."
"She should be here when Aiden arrives," Stefan said quietly. "Please, Nikolas, sit down." Nikolas sat down in a nearby chair and Stefan sat across from him.
"Nikolas...how do I tell you this?" He sighed. "Nikolas, Stavros was not your father. Luke is."
~~~
Jason was playing pool at Jake's alone. He finished another game and took a sip of his beer.
"Like playing alone?" Maria asked leaning against the pool table. She had changed from the business like clothes that she had been wearing before and into a pair of tight jeans and a black halter top. She smiled at him.
"Not if there's anyone else around to play."
She smiled again. "Mind if I join you?"
"Not at all." He watched her movements closely. She seemed familiar to him but he couldn't place her.
~~~
A man walked into a well furnished office. He glanced around disdainfully as he sat behind the desk and picked up the phone. "I want Alicia back here tonight. She'll be on Spoon Island with the Spencers. I highly doubt that they'll confront Scorpio with the
information right away. If they do, we'll handle it. Just get her back here."
He hung up the phone and looked at a picture of Cia. "Well, darling, we'll be together again very soon. No one will top me this time."
"Sir?"
"What is it, Orin?"
"There is someone here to see you. Helena Cassadine."
"Show her in." He put the picture away as Helena walked into the office.
"Well, Joshua, it has been a long time. The last time we spoke..."
"Cut the crap, Helena. What do you want?"
~~~
Maria and Jason were playing their third game of pool. Much to his surprise, she had beat him the first two
games. If anything, the competition was taking his mind off Robin's death which he needed. It was all he was thinking about. Maria was winning this game too, he mused with a grin. She was good. He wondered where she had learned to play.
A ringing cell phone interrupted his thoughts. He looked up to see Maria answer hers. She smiled sadly at him.
"Yeah. Where are you? Okay, I'll see what I can do. Bye." She slipped her phone back into her back pocket and looked at Jason. "Family business."
He nodded and took another shot. "Your family seems demanding."
"They are, but what else can you expect from a bunch of sociopathic billionaires?" Her comment was spoken without concern for what Jason would think of it.
~~~
Danielle followed Zander into the kitchen. "Not much has changed in thirty years, has it?"
Zander shrugged and began a pot of coffee. "She has an aversion to cooking, probably too many years on the island with the servants."
Danielle shook her head and sighed. "So what else can you tell me about Corinthos?"
~~~
"Joshua, honestly, you must..."
"Helena, I have work to do. State your business so I can throw you out," Joshua said standing up. He walked to the window and looked out. His brown hair looked lighter in the sunlight. Helena mused that he looked nothing like his father, unfortunately for him. He had taken after his mother with her hair color and blue eyes.
"I need your assistance," she finally said. "With Lieman."
"Get yourself into something that you can't get out of?"
"Lieman and I have different goals."
"He wants to kill you and you want to get rid of him before he has the chance, is that it? Except that you don't have the means to do so because Danielle froze your accounts. So you came here to get my help to get rid of Lieman in exchange for what exactly?"
"Part of the Cassadine Estate."
"Really Helena, I don't need that and I wouldn't take it even if I could. It's rightfully the heir's."
"Who is the heir?"
Joshua turned around and looked at her. "You haven't figured it out yet? Aiden, well now that's probably changed since his wife is pregnant again." He looked at Helena.
"If you're not going to assist me..."
"Leave, Helena. I don't have time for your petty family matters." Helena glared at him before turning around and leaving. Joshua walked back to the desk and picked up the phone and dialed a number. "Victor, it's done. She knows. Now, as for our arrangement..."
~~~
Sonny walked out of his penthouse and over to Alexis'. He wanted to ask her about Danielle's connection to the Cassadine family. He knocked on the door lightly. When he didn't get an answer, he checked and found it unlocked. He pushed it open and called out for Alexis.
~
Danielle looked at Zander when they heard someone else in the penthouse. "That's Sonny," Zander said. "He thinks he owns everything."
Danielle glanced at him. "Up for a little fun?"
"What are you thinking?"
"I'm going to play a game."
"He could kill you."
"But he won't."
"I'm going downstairs. You can have your fun."
"I'll distract him so you can go." She smiled and walked out of the kitchen. "Who the hell are you?"
~~~
Lucky and Cia walked into Kelly's. She had becomequiet since the had left the Spencer house. Lucky hadn't said anything about it, but he had a feeling that he knew what was going on. She was scared. Somany things were about to happen and she wasn't prepared for any of them.
Cia was young, innocent, yet she radiated a wisdom of things beyond her years. She'd had a hard life, never really knowing freedom until now. She was still afraid, he could tell, but she felt a little safer.
Maybe it was the fact that she was so close to finding out the truth about herself. Maybe it was something more.
They sat at a table and Penny came over and took their order.
~
Elizabeth watched from the kitchen as Lucky walked in with the woman who had come in earlier. She wondered what was going on but didn't want to ask. It had been a long time since they had been that close despite everything that had been happening in their lives recently. She would always be there for him, but they both needed to move on.
~~~
Sonny spun around to face the woman who had just come out of the kitchen. She was wearing jeans and a blouse, her dark blonde hair flowing behind her, her blue eyes showed amusement and maybe anger. He couldn't tell. He was caught up in her striking beauty.
She reminded him of Carly in a small way, but she emitted a much stronger, much more confident sense. She knew who she was and what she wanted. He could tell that she was not someone to mess with. He liked her.
"I could ask you the same question," he said.
"Oh, really? Tell me, what are you doing in my sister's apartment?"
"Your sister?"
"Well, step-sister, actually, but that's just a formality. Who are you and why are you here?"
"I wanted to check on Alexis."
"Well, as I'm sure you can see, she's not here."
"Where is she?"
"I don't think that her current location is any of your business."
"Do you have a name?"
"And which name would you like? I have several."
Sonny sighed. "The one that you are known by...What Alexis calls you."
"Alexis calls me Helena's psychotic daughter."
"Helena?"
"Yes." Danielle was about to add more when the penthouse door opened and Alexis walked in.
"Sonny, what are you doing here?" She then looked past him and saw Danielle. "Is there a reason that you're here, Danielle?"
"Just keeping my mother away. She does want you dead."
"Helena has always wanted me dead and you never cared before."
"I have several reasons to care whether or not Helena tries to kill you."
"Get out, Danielle."
Danielle shook her head. "I don't know why I even bothered. Well, I can't exactly say that. Your son is why I care and Antonio." Danielle took her things and left the penthouse.
Alexis turned to Sonny. "You can go too."
"Alexis..."
"Go, Sonny." He nodded and left.
~~~
Robert sighed as he looked at the screen in front of him. Frisco and Aiden were getting off the island a little too easy. Robert believed that if Helena wanted to keep them there, then Frisco never would have found Aiden or Sabrina.
So what was going on? Were Helena and Lieman still working together? Had one of them betrayed the other? Most likely. Cassadines could never be trusted.
He laid his head down on the desk. So many things had to be done. He had a feeling of what was going to happen at Wyndemere and he really didn't want to attend this meeting but he needed to be there for his sister and her family.
Danielle was fragile. He had talked to Alex, he knew.
Why was it always his family that suffered? Why couldn't someone else...
No, he couldn't think of it like that. He had to take care of his family. He would Help Danielle with her plan despite what Mikkos, Victor, and Stefan had to say about it. Danielle was his sister, his responsibility. He would take care of her until the day that she died.
~~~
Sonny saw Danielle waiting for the elevator. He stood next to her. "Alexis doesn't seem to like you."
"Who asked you?" she said glaring at him. "What goes on within the Cassadine family does not concern a two bit mobster."
"So you do know who I am."
"Yes, Mr. Corinthos, I do."
"And who are you?"
She looked at him, her eyes cold, heartless. "If you mess with my family, you'll find out."
"And who is your family?" he asked as they stepped onto the elevator.
"Half the town," she answered. "Since you're so interested, my name is Danielle Cortez."
~~~
It was early evening when Jason and Maria left Jake's. They had both had a few drinks and Maria was a little tipsy. She felt free, a lot better than she had in a long time. There was not family demanding anything from her at the moment. Everything was right.
"Sir." The two turned around.
"Yes, Max," Jason said, on guard immediately.
"There's..." Three shots rang out. Jason pushed Maria to the ground as Max fell. He was dead. Jason pulled his gun and scanned the area. Two more shots rang out.
He pulled Maria around the corner. She stood up once she was out of the line of fire. He looked at her as she pulled a gun out of the back of her jeans. He hadn't noticed it when he had his arm around her.
She held it confidently, making him wonder why she would even have a gun.
~~~
Luke checked on Laura before he called Robert. He wasn't sure that he needed or wanted to do this now given everything that Robert was already trying to handle. He was fairly certain that he and Lucky could take care of Cia until things cooled down a little.
He found himself forced to make this decision. Should he tell Robert Cia's story, or wait and let her tell it later? There were so many holes in her story, things that she had left out on purpose. Luke figured that those things were too painful for her to discuss. He understood that. Even the little bit that she had told him and Lucky had made him sick.
What kind of monster could do those things? How could someone hurt a young woman who was so beautiful, so innocent?
He had only been around Cia for a few minutes but he could sense that she was strong, that she had survived everything that had been dished out to her and more.
He would wait. He would wait for Cia to tell Robert, then, they would come up with a plan.
~~~
Victor hung up the phone and looked across the desk at his brother. "Joshua has told Helena the truth. Now we must find Alicia."
Mikkos smiled slightly. "Timoria." He stood up and walked to the window. "Scorpio will know what it means to betray us and Danielle will come back into the fold and take her rightful place within the family."
~~~
"Cortez?" Sonny asked. What the hell was she doing in Port Charles?
"Yes," she answered pulling out her cell phone. She dialed a number and placed the phone to her hear. "While everyone is at Wyndemere tonight, we'll make our move. I'll be there soon. Find Maria." She hung up and looked at Sonny. "You believe that I am an enemy, but I assure you that that's a false assumption." The elevator stopped and she got off on another floor. The doors closed before he could answer her.
Jason walked into Jake's. The dark atmosphere reminded him of his life. He really had nothing. Everyone was gone, Carly, Robin, Elizabeth. No one cared anymore, nothing mattered. All he had was the organization and he was quickly becoming disillusioned with it. It wasn't what he wanted anymore. He didn't know exactly what it was that he did want, but he did know what he didn't.
He didn't want a life where he constantly had to look over his shoulder. He didn't want to be alone.
~~~
Luke looked at Cia and then back at Lucky. "Okay, here's what's gonna happen. Cia, you and Lucky are going to become best friends. You don't go anywhere without him or me with ya, got it?"
"Dad, do you really think that it's that much of a threat?" Lucky asked.
"Lucky, right now, I don't know much of anything. We've got Cassadines popping up outta nowhere and Helena planning the end of the world. Until we get time to sit down and discuss this with Robert, I don't want her unprotected."
"We may be able to get some help from Sonny."
"Do what you have to do," Luke said as the phone rang. "Yeah," he said as a greeting. "What kind of meeting? Yeah, we'll be there. He's right here, I'll tell him."
"Who was that?" Lucky asked as Luke hung up the phone.
"Nikolas. It seems that our back from the dead Cassadines are having a little get together at Wyndemere tonight to discuss Helena. Everyone's going to be there," he looked at his son, "including Lisa Marie."
~~~
Helena knocked on the door of Alexis' penthouse but didn't get an answer. She sighed and tried the handle to find it locked. "Well Natasha, honestly."
"Tsk, tsk, Mother," Danielle said stepping off the elevator. "Didn't I tell you years ago to leave Alexis alone?"
"Hello, darling. It has been a long time."
"Not long enough."
"I hear that you are working with Mikkos."
"Who would kill you if he knew that you were here."
"He wouldn't kill me."
"Wanna bet?" Zander asked stepping off the elevator. "From what I hear, I think he would."
~~~
Maria hung up the phone and leaned back in her chair as Nikolas done the same. "So do you mind telling me what's going on?" he asked her.
"It's a long story."
"I have time."
"Not that much," she said with a grin.
"Enlighten me."
She sighed. "My mother is Helena's daughter and my father was Mikkos' son."
"You're right, this is a long story."
"Told you." She smiled and stood up. "If they ask, tell them that I went into town to take care of something," she said before leaving.
~~~
"Well, Zander..." Helena began but Danielle cut her off.
"Leave, Mother."
"I honestly..."
"Mother." Helena looked between her daughter and Zander before sighing and pushing past them to the
elevator. "A piece of advice, Mother dear, don't mess with my family. I will kill you." Helena stepped onto the elevator and disappeared from sight.
"You should have killed her," Zander said.
"I know, but I have bigger plans."
"Sydney?"
"And Maria." Zander unlocked the door of the penthouse and the two walked inside. Danielle laid her things on the desk as Zander walked into the kitchen.
~~~
Stefan walked into the library and found Nikolas standing by the window looking out over the grounds. He frowned slightly. He had much to tell Nikolas. Everything the boy had ever believed was false. Nothing that he had ever been told about his family was true. It was all a lie. Everything was a lie. He walked to him and laid a hand on his shoulder. Nikolas turned to face him. "Nikolas, there is much that you have to know and there isn't much time."
"What's going on?" Nikolas asked.
"Where is Maria?"
"She had something to do."
"She should be here when Aiden arrives," Stefan said quietly. "Please, Nikolas, sit down." Nikolas sat down in a nearby chair and Stefan sat across from him.
"Nikolas...how do I tell you this?" He sighed. "Nikolas, Stavros was not your father. Luke is."
~~~
Jason was playing pool at Jake's alone. He finished another game and took a sip of his beer.
"Like playing alone?" Maria asked leaning against the pool table. She had changed from the business like clothes that she had been wearing before and into a pair of tight jeans and a black halter top. She smiled at him.
"Not if there's anyone else around to play."
She smiled again. "Mind if I join you?"
"Not at all." He watched her movements closely. She seemed familiar to him but he couldn't place her.
~~~
A man walked into a well furnished office. He glanced around disdainfully as he sat behind the desk and picked up the phone. "I want Alicia back here tonight. She'll be on Spoon Island with the Spencers. I highly doubt that they'll confront Scorpio with the
information right away. If they do, we'll handle it. Just get her back here."
He hung up the phone and looked at a picture of Cia. "Well, darling, we'll be together again very soon. No one will top me this time."
"Sir?"
"What is it, Orin?"
"There is someone here to see you. Helena Cassadine."
"Show her in." He put the picture away as Helena walked into the office.
"Well, Joshua, it has been a long time. The last time we spoke..."
"Cut the crap, Helena. What do you want?"
~~~
Maria and Jason were playing their third game of pool. Much to his surprise, she had beat him the first two
games. If anything, the competition was taking his mind off Robin's death which he needed. It was all he was thinking about. Maria was winning this game too, he mused with a grin. She was good. He wondered where she had learned to play.
A ringing cell phone interrupted his thoughts. He looked up to see Maria answer hers. She smiled sadly at him.
"Yeah. Where are you? Okay, I'll see what I can do. Bye." She slipped her phone back into her back pocket and looked at Jason. "Family business."
He nodded and took another shot. "Your family seems demanding."
"They are, but what else can you expect from a bunch of sociopathic billionaires?" Her comment was spoken without concern for what Jason would think of it.
~~~
Danielle followed Zander into the kitchen. "Not much has changed in thirty years, has it?"
Zander shrugged and began a pot of coffee. "She has an aversion to cooking, probably too many years on the island with the servants."
Danielle shook her head and sighed. "So what else can you tell me about Corinthos?"
~~~
"Joshua, honestly, you must..."
"Helena, I have work to do. State your business so I can throw you out," Joshua said standing up. He walked to the window and looked out. His brown hair looked lighter in the sunlight. Helena mused that he looked nothing like his father, unfortunately for him. He had taken after his mother with her hair color and blue eyes.
"I need your assistance," she finally said. "With Lieman."
"Get yourself into something that you can't get out of?"
"Lieman and I have different goals."
"He wants to kill you and you want to get rid of him before he has the chance, is that it? Except that you don't have the means to do so because Danielle froze your accounts. So you came here to get my help to get rid of Lieman in exchange for what exactly?"
"Part of the Cassadine Estate."
"Really Helena, I don't need that and I wouldn't take it even if I could. It's rightfully the heir's."
"Who is the heir?"
Joshua turned around and looked at her. "You haven't figured it out yet? Aiden, well now that's probably changed since his wife is pregnant again." He looked at Helena.
"If you're not going to assist me..."
"Leave, Helena. I don't have time for your petty family matters." Helena glared at him before turning around and leaving. Joshua walked back to the desk and picked up the phone and dialed a number. "Victor, it's done. She knows. Now, as for our arrangement..."
~~~
Sonny walked out of his penthouse and over to Alexis'. He wanted to ask her about Danielle's connection to the Cassadine family. He knocked on the door lightly. When he didn't get an answer, he checked and found it unlocked. He pushed it open and called out for Alexis.
~
Danielle looked at Zander when they heard someone else in the penthouse. "That's Sonny," Zander said. "He thinks he owns everything."
Danielle glanced at him. "Up for a little fun?"
"What are you thinking?"
"I'm going to play a game."
"He could kill you."
"But he won't."
"I'm going downstairs. You can have your fun."
"I'll distract him so you can go." She smiled and walked out of the kitchen. "Who the hell are you?"
~~~
Lucky and Cia walked into Kelly's. She had becomequiet since the had left the Spencer house. Lucky hadn't said anything about it, but he had a feeling that he knew what was going on. She was scared. Somany things were about to happen and she wasn't prepared for any of them.
Cia was young, innocent, yet she radiated a wisdom of things beyond her years. She'd had a hard life, never really knowing freedom until now. She was still afraid, he could tell, but she felt a little safer.
Maybe it was the fact that she was so close to finding out the truth about herself. Maybe it was something more.
They sat at a table and Penny came over and took their order.
~
Elizabeth watched from the kitchen as Lucky walked in with the woman who had come in earlier. She wondered what was going on but didn't want to ask. It had been a long time since they had been that close despite everything that had been happening in their lives recently. She would always be there for him, but they both needed to move on.
~~~
Sonny spun around to face the woman who had just come out of the kitchen. She was wearing jeans and a blouse, her dark blonde hair flowing behind her, her blue eyes showed amusement and maybe anger. He couldn't tell. He was caught up in her striking beauty.
She reminded him of Carly in a small way, but she emitted a much stronger, much more confident sense. She knew who she was and what she wanted. He could tell that she was not someone to mess with. He liked her.
"I could ask you the same question," he said.
"Oh, really? Tell me, what are you doing in my sister's apartment?"
"Your sister?"
"Well, step-sister, actually, but that's just a formality. Who are you and why are you here?"
"I wanted to check on Alexis."
"Well, as I'm sure you can see, she's not here."
"Where is she?"
"I don't think that her current location is any of your business."
"Do you have a name?"
"And which name would you like? I have several."
Sonny sighed. "The one that you are known by...What Alexis calls you."
"Alexis calls me Helena's psychotic daughter."
"Helena?"
"Yes." Danielle was about to add more when the penthouse door opened and Alexis walked in.
"Sonny, what are you doing here?" She then looked past him and saw Danielle. "Is there a reason that you're here, Danielle?"
"Just keeping my mother away. She does want you dead."
"Helena has always wanted me dead and you never cared before."
"I have several reasons to care whether or not Helena tries to kill you."
"Get out, Danielle."
Danielle shook her head. "I don't know why I even bothered. Well, I can't exactly say that. Your son is why I care and Antonio." Danielle took her things and left the penthouse.
Alexis turned to Sonny. "You can go too."
"Alexis..."
"Go, Sonny." He nodded and left.
~~~
Robert sighed as he looked at the screen in front of him. Frisco and Aiden were getting off the island a little too easy. Robert believed that if Helena wanted to keep them there, then Frisco never would have found Aiden or Sabrina.
So what was going on? Were Helena and Lieman still working together? Had one of them betrayed the other? Most likely. Cassadines could never be trusted.
He laid his head down on the desk. So many things had to be done. He had a feeling of what was going to happen at Wyndemere and he really didn't want to attend this meeting but he needed to be there for his sister and her family.
Danielle was fragile. He had talked to Alex, he knew.
Why was it always his family that suffered? Why couldn't someone else...
No, he couldn't think of it like that. He had to take care of his family. He would Help Danielle with her plan despite what Mikkos, Victor, and Stefan had to say about it. Danielle was his sister, his responsibility. He would take care of her until the day that she died.
~~~
Sonny saw Danielle waiting for the elevator. He stood next to her. "Alexis doesn't seem to like you."
"Who asked you?" she said glaring at him. "What goes on within the Cassadine family does not concern a two bit mobster."
"So you do know who I am."
"Yes, Mr. Corinthos, I do."
"And who are you?"
She looked at him, her eyes cold, heartless. "If you mess with my family, you'll find out."
"And who is your family?" he asked as they stepped onto the elevator.
"Half the town," she answered. "Since you're so interested, my name is Danielle Cortez."
~~~
It was early evening when Jason and Maria left Jake's. They had both had a few drinks and Maria was a little tipsy. She felt free, a lot better than she had in a long time. There was not family demanding anything from her at the moment. Everything was right.
"Sir." The two turned around.
"Yes, Max," Jason said, on guard immediately.
"There's..." Three shots rang out. Jason pushed Maria to the ground as Max fell. He was dead. Jason pulled his gun and scanned the area. Two more shots rang out.
He pulled Maria around the corner. She stood up once she was out of the line of fire. He looked at her as she pulled a gun out of the back of her jeans. He hadn't noticed it when he had his arm around her.
She held it confidently, making him wonder why she would even have a gun.
~~~
Luke checked on Laura before he called Robert. He wasn't sure that he needed or wanted to do this now given everything that Robert was already trying to handle. He was fairly certain that he and Lucky could take care of Cia until things cooled down a little.
He found himself forced to make this decision. Should he tell Robert Cia's story, or wait and let her tell it later? There were so many holes in her story, things that she had left out on purpose. Luke figured that those things were too painful for her to discuss. He understood that. Even the little bit that she had told him and Lucky had made him sick.
What kind of monster could do those things? How could someone hurt a young woman who was so beautiful, so innocent?
He had only been around Cia for a few minutes but he could sense that she was strong, that she had survived everything that had been dished out to her and more.
He would wait. He would wait for Cia to tell Robert, then, they would come up with a plan.
~~~
Victor hung up the phone and looked across the desk at his brother. "Joshua has told Helena the truth. Now we must find Alicia."
Mikkos smiled slightly. "Timoria." He stood up and walked to the window. "Scorpio will know what it means to betray us and Danielle will come back into the fold and take her rightful place within the family."
~~~
"Cortez?" Sonny asked. What the hell was she doing in Port Charles?
"Yes," she answered pulling out her cell phone. She dialed a number and placed the phone to her hear. "While everyone is at Wyndemere tonight, we'll make our move. I'll be there soon. Find Maria." She hung up and looked at Sonny. "You believe that I am an enemy, but I assure you that that's a false assumption." The elevator stopped and she got off on another floor. The doors closed before he could answer her.