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Chapter 41

Once they arrived at Greystone, Elizabeth set about making sure that Cameron and Morgan were all set. The guys patiently waited in Sonny's office. No one said anything about how long it was taking the normally efficient mother. They all knew that she was putting off the coming conversation for a long as possible. After almost forty minutes she walked into the office. "I'm ready."

"Couldn't find anything else to do?" Johnny asked her with a smirk.

"Asshole." Elizabeth said without any heat behind it. Honestly she had needed that, and her friend knew it. Johnny was prepared to play the bad guy and give her an outlet for her emotions.

"Feel better?" Johnny asked her smiling wide now.

"A little." She admitted smirking too.

"Good, just avoid the face." He said laughing.

"Can we get started now?" Elizabeth was ready to hear what her friend knew.

"Have a seat." Johnny just smirked again when she choose to sit on Jason's lap. "It's true, you are an Alcazar." There was no point in dragging out the answer.

Elizabeth just took a moment to absorb the information. "How?" She finally asked. "How is that even possible?"

"I have all the information that my source could find. Do you want me to tell you or do you want to hear it from Lorenzo? He probably has more." Johnny had learned a lot about the Alcazar family last night.

Elizabeth looked at Jason. "Whatever you decide." He told her.

"I'd like to know now." Elizabeth looked at Johnny. "How is it I'm an Alcazar and why was I raised by the Webbers?"

Johnny looked at Jason and when his boss nodded he proceeded. "You're mother's name is Lucia, when she was seven months pregnant she was kidnapped by an enemy of Leonardo, your father. The Alcazar men did everything they could to find the both of you. Your mother was finally located and taken to a nearby hospital but she was no longer pregnant. She managed to tell your father and two brothers that she had given birth to a baby girl, who was alive, but that her captors would not let her see you. Lucia died shortly after arriving at the hospital." Johnny paused in his story. "You doing okay kid?"

"Francis why don't you pass Elizabeth one of those bottles of water?" Sonny's office had a small bar.

She drank half the bottle while the guys watched. "Do you want to step outside and get some air?" Jason asked since she was sitting on his lap he could feel that she was trembling.

"No. Keep going Johnny." Her voice was shaking but she was holding her own.

"Okay. Lorenzo promised his mother that he would find you and bring you home." Johnny picked up his narrative.

"Stop." Elizabeth said suddenly. She had felt Jason stiffen underneath her. "I'm not going anywhere without you." She told him ignoring everyone else in the room. "You know that right? I need to talk to Lorenzo and I'll want to someday see the country I was born in but I will need you with me to do both."

"Sorry." Jason wasn't trying to make this about him. Hearing that Lorenzo had promised to take her back home brought up his greatest fear. Jason was terrified of losing Elizabeth. He'd waited so long for her it would destroy him if she left.

"Don't be sorry." She whispered in his ear. "I'm yours Jason. " She promised him.

He gave her a quick kiss. "I'm yours too." He whispered back.

"So, they've been looking for me?" Elizabeth turned back to face Johnny.

"Since the day Lucia was found. For your entire life they've been looking for you." He told her with a smile. He knew how much that statement would mean to her. If Luis had even seen her once while he was alive, they would have already found her. "Ready for the rest?"

"Yeah." She felt a little lighter since it seemed that the Alcazars actually wanted her. She still had questions but it was looking promising.

"Okay. The people who kidnapped you knew that they couldn't keep you. Leonardo was tearing the country apart trying to find you. When you got sick they called in an American doctor to take a look at you. Jeff Webber. The woman who was watching you made him an offer. She would give him a large amount of cash if he took you out of the country, Jeff accepted." Johnny refused to call the man her father. "He didn't do it for the money."

"Why do you say that?" Elizabeth was starting to feel sick to her stomach. She'd been sold.

"Carolyn suffered a miscarriage while the Webbers were in South America. Jeff took the offer because he thought that a new baby would snap her out of her depression." Johnny told her.

"Oh my god!" Elizabeth frowned and instinctively touched a hand to her stomach. "It doesn't work like that. You can't just replace one baby with another. No wonder she hated me." Carolyn had made no bones about the fact that she never wanted Elizabeth and now the brunette understood why. "She was as much a victim as I was."

"No she wasn't." Jason wouldn't let Elizabeth white wash the past.

"Jason." Elizabeth protested softly.

"No, she wasn't. What Jeff did was wrong, but she had a choice. Carolyn could have given you up for adoption or she could have opened her heart and loved you. What she should have done was make sure you got back home. She didn't do any of those things, instead she abused you and let your siblings do the same. Jeff was no better. He brought you into the family he should have protected you." Jason was even angrier than before.

"They never hit me Jason." Elizabeth was trying to calm him down.

"Abuse comes in more forms than physical." Sonny spoke up. He knew all about child abuse. "You were married to two abusive men Elizabeth. Only in the end did Lucky hit you. Both he and my brother manipulated you. Made you think that you had to be a certain way to get their love. They called you names and criticized you. Does that sound at all familiar?"

She was looking down and biting her lower lip. "It sounds like how my mom and sister treated me growing up. My dad and brother just ignored me." She admitted for the first time.

"Neglect is abuse as well." Francis's heart was breaking for her.

"Carolyn taught you that you weren't worthy of being loved and for years you've been repeating the cycle." Sonny pointed out not to be mean but to help her see things for what they were. "Now you're doing better."

"Lainey would be so proud of you Sonny." Elizabeth gave her friend a small smile. She leaned into Jason feeling a bit battered from what she had learned.

"I'm trying Elizabeth. So are you." The mob boss told her.

"Yes I am." She squeezed Jason's hand. "I need to speak with Lorenzo. Today if possible."

"We can call him right now." Jason nodded to Johnny. "Cam can stay here."

"We can use the conference room at the warehouse." Sonny told the group.

"That's too obvious. Let's use the restaurant. It doesn't open until noon, if Lorenzo can meet this morning." Jason didn't want to be seen with Lorenzo just yet.

Johnny made the call. "He can be there in thirty minutes." When Jason nodded again Johnny set it up.

"Let me tell Kate that I'm heading out." Sonny had no intention of missing this meeting. "I'll call Marco and Max to come out and set up the buffet." Everything was already prepared. Both guards knew how Sonny liked things.

The Corinthos Morgan contingent arrived first. The restaurant was spotless, there was no sign that there had been a party the night before. Jason took Elizabeth into Sonny's office and closed the door behind them. He just wanted a few moments of privacy so that he could make sure that Elizabeth was really holding up okay.

"You think they're gonna have sex in your office?" Johnny said to irritate Sonny.

"That's just wrong O'Brien." But the mob boss did laugh.

"Well she is almost in her second trimester." Francis pointed out.

"Jason will need some time off." Sonny said laughing harder. He'd missed having Francis and Johnny around to lighten things up. He was glad they were staying.

"Alcazar's here." Cody said walking into the main room of the restaurant.

Sonny had guards stationed all around the building. He was taking no chances. "Show him in." Francis was already knocking on the office door.

Elizabeth and Jason came out hand in hand. She looked a hell of a lot calmer than Jason who was fully in enforcer mode. Lorenzo walked in and immediately his eyes landed on the petite brunette. With a smile he came over to where she was standing. "Querida." Lorenzo said in greeting.

When Jason stiffened beside her Elizabeth pulled her hand from his and walked over to Sonny. "What did Lorenzo just say?"

"He called you sweetheart." Sonny told her smiling.

"Jason speaks Spanish?" She hadn't known that.

"Jason speaks several different languages. Chief among them Italian and Spanish." Francis cleared up.

"Okay then." Elizabeth walked back over to Lorenzo, placing her hand back in Jason's she addressed the man who was her older brother. "You may call me Elizabeth. I think it's too early for endearments." She didn't want her fiancé in jail before the wedding.

"I'm sorry, I was excited." She was of course correct. Lorenzo knew he had to give her time to adjust. He'd known for months who she was. "Thank you for agreeing to meet with me. You must have questions."

"I do yes, only about a million. But for today I only have one." Elizabeth responded.

"Of course. Should we sit down?" Lorenzo wanted her comfortable. "First let me apologize for upsetting you that was never my intention."

"Thank you. You did upset me and Jason also. You can apologize more for that later." She didn't want to get sidetracked.

Lorenzo gave her a fond smile. She was strong. "What did you want to know?"

"Did you keep looking for me after our mother died because you promised to?" Elizabeth needed to hear that he was looking for her, and not just trying to keep his word.

"May I tell you something? It will help you understand my answer." Lorenzo had also looked into how she became a Webber. Doing so had uncovered just how shabbily her so called family had treated her. Elizabeth didn't trust easily. He would have to prove to her that she was wanted. More than anything he wanted the Webbers to pay for her abuse. But he already knew his sister's heart, and that she would not want him to go after them. It was hard for him. He figured Morgan was having the same struggle.

"Alright." Elizabeth settled in her chair still holding Jason's hand.

"Two weeks before out mother was taken she had a doctor's appointment. My father normally took her but he and Luis had a meeting to attend, so I went with her. I stayed in the waiting area while the doctor examined her. I was watching the nurses." He smiled ruefully. Even when he was younger he liked pretty women. "After about twenty minutes the doctor's assistant came out to get me. She said my mother wanted me to hear something. I went in the examination room and she was on a table with her shirt up. The doctor put an instrument on her stomach and the room filled with the most amazing sound. It was your heartbeat. In that moment I fell in love with you. You became mine. I told my mother that I wanted to name you Lisabetta. She and my father both agreed. I looked for you because I promised our mother that I would find you, yes that is true. But I also looked for you because you were in my heart." By the time he was done he and his sister were holding hands.

"I was wanted." Elizabeth was crying.

"You were wanted. I never would have given up on finding you." Lorenzo told her. "I'm sorry that Luis and our father are not here to see how beautiful you are."

"Do I look like our mother? I've never really looked like anyone before." Elizabeth had always felt out of step with the Webbers, now she knew why.

"I brought this." Lorenzo handed her a picture. "I didn't include it in the parcel I sent because I didn't want you to think I had altered it."

"I look just like her." There were slight differences but it was clear that the woman in the picture was her mother. "She's even short like me." Elizabeth said smiling.

"You may keep that. She loved you Elisabetta, we all did." Lorenzo felt that he was whole for the first time since she was taken from them.

"Thank you for the picture and for looking for me." Elizabeth gave him a smile before showing the picture to Jason who gave her quick kiss. The fact that he was happy for her was clear in his blue eyes. "I'm getting married on Saturday."

"I know." Lorenzo glared at Jason. "You could have married her before you got her pregnant."

"That is not open to discussion." Elizabeth chastised her brother. He was going to be just as bad as Frannie and Johnny. "He asked before either of us knew."

Lorenzo shot Jason another glare before turning back to his sister. "I'm sure you'll be a beautiful bride."

"I'd like for you to come." Elizabeth was already making space in her heart for him.

"I'd love to but I'm not sure that's wise right now." Lorenzo knew that her safety needed to come before everything else. They had a plan to set in motion and him being at the wedding could derail that. he didn't know if she could hide that she was happy to see him. The same was true of him.

"You mean Ric the prick?" Elizabeth said raising an eyebrow. All the men laughed at the nickname.

"Exactly." Lorenzo said wiping his eyes. She had the Alcazar sharp tongue. His mother had welded it well.

She closed her eyes and leaned against Jason. "Tired?" He instantly asked concerned that the morning had been too stressful.

"Yes, but I'm thinking." Sitting up she reached into her purse. "Are you off?" She asked the person she had called. "Can you come to Sonny's restaurant through the back?" When she hung up the guys were looking at her. She just grinned.

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