Hey everyone, I have sorted out the next update so I am posting it now for you. Some of you may not like what happens in this part, but I thought it fitted well with it, Anyway here is the next part...

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...Continued.

After a second, Lena nodded and stepped back.

"You better come in." She whispered and watched Clarisse slowly walk in.

They both stood in silence for a moment.

"I'm so sorry Clarisse," Lena whispered as Clarisse looked over at her.

"Why are you sorry for?" she asked.

"For knowing and not telling you." she answered.

"The way I see it Lena, you didn't father her so you have know reason to be sorry." Clarisse said while looking around and saw a baby photo on the shelf "Is this Karen when she was a baby?" she asked slowly picking it up.

"Yes." Lena nodded.

"Looks just like Pierre and Philippe did," Clarisse nodded and slowly put it back.

"I'm so sorry." Lena whispered "Oh I have something you might want to see." she said and disappeared through the door, coming back moments later "I completely forgot I had this until the other day, I was going through some stuff and found this," she extended her arm to Clarisse, handing her an envelope "Rupert gave it me years ago, to look after, I guess he forgot I had it." she said watching her open it.

Clarisse pulled out a piece of paper and unfolded it "Her birth certificate." she nodded a couple times with a small laugh "No wonder he gave it you, if he had it at the Palace, I or one of the maids would of found it." she sighed while sitting down as shock hit her.

"Would you like a glass of water?" Lena asked.

"Yes, please?" Clarisse nodded and looked back at the certificate in her hands as Lena walked through to the kitchen.

Moments later Lena came back in with a glass of water, and sat beside her.

"I'm so sorry you had to find this out from me, Clarisse." Lena whispered as Clarisse slowly looked at her.

"No, thank you for telling me as I sure as hell wasn't gonna get it from my own sister." Clarisse said shaking her head and put her hand up to her mouth "I can't get my head around it." she said looking back at the piece of paper in her hand "My own sister?" she exclaimed.

"Do you see what I meant with her having her mothers genes?" Lena asked as Clarisse looked at her.

"I do, she looks nothing like her Father, but now I know it's her she does do some things that are the same." Clarisse said shaking her head "I can't believe I never noticed it before."

"You weren't to know, Clarisse." Lena said as she slowly looked at her.

They sat talking for a while then Clarisse left, but before heading home she called somewhere else first. When she pulled up outside the house, she looked towards it as it poured down with rain, she pulled her hood up over her head and climbed out the car, locking it and rushed towards the house, banging on the door for a second then turned to look back at her car.

Moments later, Harriet opened the door and stood surprised when Clarisse turned to look at her, noticing anger in her eyes.

"Clari, what are you doing here?" she exclaimed.

"Don't Clari me, it's Your Highness to you." Clarisse snapped while pushing the hood down behind her and stared at her "Did you enjoy bedding my husband?" she snapped.

"Ahh." Harriet whispered and stepped aside for her to come in and quickly shut the door and followed her into the living room "I thought you might come today." Harriet said as Clarisse turned and looked at her.

"How could you?" Clarisse snapped.

"It just happened, I came over to see you as I hadn't heard from you in a while, we got talking and well..." she smirked "I'm sure you don't need me to go into detail." she gasped as Clarisse slapped her across the face.

"How dare you!" Clarisse snapped at her "How long did it go on for?" she asked.

"About 6 years." Harriet said looking at her while putting her hand up to her face.

"6 years?" Clarisse gasped in surprise.

"I don't really see what the problem is Clari... Sorry, Your Highness, you weren't actually having a sexual relationship with him at the time." Harriet said while looking at her.

"And you would know that how?" Clarisse snapped.

"He told me." she answered as Clarisse stood laughing.

"Actually, Harriet!" Clarisse smirked "I have you no, we were very active together around that time, and had an amazing relationship in the bedroom!" Clarisse glared at her "Which really, you can't claim to have if he came home to me, it was my bed he slept in at night." Clarisse said staring at her.

"You can't stand there and tell me you had amazing sex with him, you couldn't stand him!" Harriet exclaimed.

"Most the time I couldn't, but sometimes I could, and I loved him dearly." Clarisse snapped and shook her head "You really do disgust me Harriet." she felt herself getting angry "You are meant to be my sister and you do this?" she looked her in the eyes while shaking her head a little.

Seconds later they were scrapping, falling onto the floor while screaming at each other. After a few moments Clarisse had straddled Harriet while pinning her to the floor, trying to catch her breath.

"You were always the stronger one." Harriet exclaimed through taking deep breaths.

Clarisse just glared at her while letting her arms ago "Did you enjoy it?" Clarisse snapped "Sleeping with my husband, I mean?"

"Yes I did." Harriet snapped while looking up at her.

"How could you do it?" Clarisse asked.

"You weren't happy with him Clarisse, why put yourself through this." Harriet said softly as Clarisse slowly climbed off and moved sitting on the chair "I'm sorry I slept with him, I really am."

"You had his baby and you couldn't tell me?" Clarisse asked "You had his girl and you couldn't tell me when you knew how much I wanted a daughter." Clarisse asked while shaking her head "You betrayed me in the worst possible way."

Harriet moved, sitting up and looked at her "You didn't love him Clarisse,"

"Ha, what would you know about Love?" Clarisse snapped "You had love with your husband but yet you still had to sleep with someone elses!" Clarisse said shaking her head.

"it wasn't just me who betrayed you, it was him too and he done it many times." Harriet whispered, as Clarisse looked down "You didn't love him." Harriet said again.

"I did though," Clarisse whispered while slowly looking up at her "I loved him, though it may not of seemed it to the world or our Country I didn't, but I did." she nodded a little "Behind closed doors we loved each other very much." she looked at her with tears in her eyes.

"But you loved Joseph?" Harriet said.

"I did, because he was my first love, he was my best friend, Rupert was my friend, my husband and father of my beautiful boys." she shook her head as a couple tears escaped her eyes "You don't stay with someone if you don't love them, I knew of the affairs and it was my duty to stay, because of who we were, only overtime I would always fall back in love with him." she wiped her cheeks free from her tears "I know I was in a relationship with Joseph when Rupert died, but if I didn't love him I wouldn't of cried, or felt heartbroken, or been there with him when he died." she moved her hand putting it on her chest "Anyone else he cheated with I didn't care, it meant nothing to me but to find out he done it with you?" she said starting to cry "I loved him Harriet, I really did love him."

"I'm sorry Clarisse." Harriet moved, kneeling beside her about to give her a hug but Clarisse moved away.

"Don't touch me," Clarisse snapped while pointing to the floor "You are nothing to me!" she snapped, turning and ran to the door as Harriet followed.

"Clarisse please, wait." Harriet called after her as she followed her "Please?"

"NO!" Clarisse snapped, when suddenly she felt Harriet grab her arm, she turned and they both slipped on the wet grass getting soaked as they tried to stand up "Leave me alone!" Clarisse snapped.

Suddenly Clarisse felt someone pull her up, then they helped Harriet up as they both stood looking at them then looked at each other.

"Clarisse please I'm sorry, I had no idea." Harriet exclaimed "I swear!"

"No of course you wouldn't?" she looked at the man who helped her up "Thank you." she nodded once and started rushing to her car.

"Clarisse," Harriet said rushing after her "I had no idea you loved him."

"You still slept with him though, didn't you?" Clarisse said opening her door while shaking her head "You were meant to be my sister, How could you do this to me?" she snapped and climbed in the car, starting it and sped off.

Harriet stood watching her speed around the corner, then disappeared back inside. After a few moments of driving Clarisse pulled over and started crying.

A little while later, Jason and Paul were driving past and noticed her car parked on the side of the road, pulling up in front of it Jason got out and ran back to the car to see if everything was alright, seeing her crying he opened the door and she looked at him.

"Aunt Clari? What's wrong?" he exclaimed as she climbed out the car, he gave her a hug "Come on." he said walking her around to the other side, opening the door for her "Let's get you home." he whispered as it started raining again, when he shut the door he looked down at Paul "Go on, let Uncle Joseph know we are following?" Paul nodded, as Jason ran back around to the drivers side of the car and got in as Clarisse cried beside him.

He watched her for a second then started the car, heading back to the Palace. When they pulled up outside the stairs, Joseph was waiting with an umbrella and rushed over to the car, opening Clarisse's door and watched her slowly step out.

"Hey, what's wrong?" he asked while lowering his head a little as she stepped closer, putting her arms around his shoulders crying into his neck "Clarisse, what's wrong?" he asked putting his arm around her waist.

"Here, let me take this?" Jason said rushing around and took the umbrella handle from Joseph, holding it up for them.

"Thank you Jason," Joseph said putting his other arm around Clarisse's waist "What's wrong baby?" Joseph whispered in Clarisse's ear.

"Please." she started "Please promise me you will never hurt me again." she whispered through crying.

"Of course I will never hurt you again," he whispered back holding her tight "I love you Clarisse, I promise you." he rubbed her back "Come on, let's get you inside and out of these wet clothes." he said.

Once they were up in their suite he managed to get her in the shower and left some pajamas out for her, then waited in the suite for her while getting very worried. Not long after she appeared and slowly walked over to him.

"What happened?" Joseph asked while watching her sit down beside him.

"Sasha." Clarisse started while looking down and felt Joseph's arm wrap around her back "Is Rupert's." she whispered while closing her eyes.

"What?" he gasped while looking at her as she slowly opened her eyes "Oh Clarisse," he whispered pulling her into a hug "I'm so sorry." he said rubbing her back while holding her close.

"Where's James and Lilly?" Clarisse asked lifting her head.

"Are ok, they are with Olivia and Marla." he whispered as she rested her head back down.

They sat talking for a bit when someone knocked on their suite door, Clarisse disappeared into the bedroom while Joseph went to see who it was, then went over to the bedroom.

"Clari?" he whispered as she slowly looked over "It's Sasha." he whispered and stepped back and let Sasha pass "I will leave you to talk." Joseph said and stepped back, pulling up the door.

"What's going on?" Sasha asked as Clarisse looked over at her.

"Come here, I need to talk to you about something?" she said patting the bed beside her.

They both sat on the bed as Clarisse told her who her father is, Clarisse stayed with her for a little while then headed downstairs, finding everyone in the living room.

"Mom?" Sofia whispered "Dad told us, are you ok?" she looked at her as she stood next to Joseph.

"Of course I'm alright, I'm more worried about Sasha." she looked at her "Can you maybe keep an eye on her tonight?"

"Of course I will, but if she's gonna want someone to talk to it's gonna be you, she's closer to you." Sofia nodded as Clarisse sat down next to Joseph.

"I know, but please keep an eye on her all the same, this is a big shock after all." Clarisse said as Joseph put his arm around her shoulders as she lent back into him a little.

"Of course." Sofia nodded.

"Does this mean that your her Step Mom now?" Olivia asked.

"Um.." Clarisse thought about it "I guess in some ways it does, but she's still my Niece and that come's first." they all nodded in agreement "Where are James and Lilly?" she asked checking the time.

"They are up in bed." Joseph said rubbing her shoulder as she put her hand down on his thigh.

"Don't worry about them tonight, they are in with me." Olivia smiled at her.

"Thank you." Clarisse smiled back and rested her head on Joseph's shoulder.

After a while they left the girls downstairs and headed upstairs to bed, only when Clarisse came out the bathroom she saw Sasha stood with her hands together in front of her.

"What's wrong darling?" she asked while looking over at her.

"Does this mean I have to leave?" Sasha asked.

"God no, you should know that." Clarisse said walking over and cupped her face with her hands "You are staying and that's the end of it." she smiled and kissed her forehead while wrapping her arms around her "Even though he's your Father, it doesn't change anything between us." she put her hand up under Sasha's chin and lifted her head up gently "Ok?"

"Thank you." Sasha whispered and started crying again.

"You're welcome." she said rubbing her back "You still have me, know matter what happens." she kissed her forehead "I promise you that."

"Thank you." Sasha whispered.

"Now why don't you go and see if you can get some rest, we will talk more in the morning." Clarisse smiled

"Ok," she said stepping back and headed towards the door as Clarisse watched her "I love you Aunt Clari?" she smiled over at her.

"I love you too." Clarisse smiled and watched her leave.

She turned and climbed into bed and put some hand cream on her hands when Joseph came back and climbed into bed beside her.

"This has really been a strange day." Clarisse said looking at Joseph as he turned his lamp of.

"It really has, maybe one that isn't ending in a good way but it has been strange." he said looking back at her and put his arm around up around her shoulders as she snuggled up to him "I love you Clarisse, always have and I always will and I will never hurt you again." he smiled looking at her as she tipped her head back.

"Thank you." she kissed him and rested her head on his chest "I'm over it anyway, I was shocked earlier that's probably why I was acting that way." she said extending her arm around his waist "But really it doesn't surprise me anymore." she whispered and closed her eyes.

"Good," he smiled and kissed the top of her head "Good night beautiful." he smiled against her hair.

"Good night, handsome." she smiled tipping her head back and kissed him a couple times.

She then rolled over, turning her back to him as he snuggled up to her.