Christian's POV

Once we reach my parents home Elliot comes down the hallway and I can tell that he is fucking pissed.

"Umm I go see where Kate is" Ana mutters and quickly disappears into the direction that Elliot came from.

"Fuck bro, I get that you are pissed at Mom and Dad, but what the hell has possessed you to treat Mia like that? You know where she is? Upstairs bawling her eyes out because she had to find out that her birthmother is a crackwhore who basically tried to kill her while she was in her womb by taking all the drugs she could get, her parents lied to her and her brother treated her like she is dirt." Fuck I never saw Elliot that mad. He is the easy going guy of the family who rarely ever raises his voice, but now I can tell he is moments away from knocking me out.

" Shit I know I overreacted with Mia. Ana already tried to talk some sense into me. Where is Mia?"

"In her room. Kate tried to console her but she asked her to leave. Dad is trying to console Mom who fears to lose her children over this and I'm five seconds away from beating someone to a pulp just to fucking calm down."

" Ok bro, let's talk this out in a bit. I'll go see Mia now." he nods and takes off back to where he came from while I take the stairs up to the second floor where Mia's room is.

When I open the door to her room I can't see her, but then hear the sobs coming from the walk in closet and for a second I hesitate to go in. Fuck I never felt so shitty about myself as I do right now. My parents are used to me lashing out verbally or with my actions when I'm mad fuck even Elliot had to endure me being a dick on numerous occasions but I never did that to Mia. She is way more sensitive than she wants anyone to know. As a kid I sometimes teased her or took her toys away until she would start to cry, but that was different, she cried because she was mad and hearing her sobs now I know that's not the case.

Finally I open the door and my heart nearly stops. Fuck she is packing. Is she going to run?

"Mia?" she turns around startled and just stares at me her eyes red rimmed and big tears are sliding down her cheeks. I walk over to where she is sitting on the floor with her bag and sit down.

"Hi my name is Christian and I'm a dick" I try to lighten the mood a little but I guess I failed because she is only crying harder.

" Do...do yo-you hate me?" she sobs and I freeze fuck is that what she thinks?

Damn it I am completely out of my depth here. Usually my Mom would console Mia when she is upset but this was my doing and I want to fix it. I take a handkerchief from my pocket and start to wipe the tears from her face. "I could never hate you Mia. You are my sister. I... I don't know why I freaked out like that. You know me I'm not good with this feeling shit. Most of the time I fuck up and hearing what that old bitch said. I just lost it, but you are my babysister and I... I love you."

I look at Mia and she has stopped to cry and stares at me as if I had grown a second head.

"Mia?"

"You... you never said that before you only ever said dito or something like that." she whispers and I know she is referring to me telling her that I love her.

"Yeah well... fuck you know I do and I'm not good at showing it."

"You are, well most of the time." Mia murmurs.

"Mia were you about to just run away?" I ask because if she was there will be someone following her from now on without her knowing it. I can't have her running away fuck that would make my life hell.

"I don't know I just thought you wanted me gone."

"Mia you know me I'm an asshole on a good day. How I treated you was completely wrong but with that being said if you ever run away believe me I will spent all my time looking for you and if I find you I will spank the shit out of you."

" Oh come on you wouldn't hit me." she says with a little smile. "If you did something that stupid I would, so better not try it." I warn her though we both know I couldn't harm her in any physical way.

"Ok, so how do you feel about... you know us having the same birthmother" she asks cautiously.

"Well it's not like you haven't been my sister before. You are just the same to me Mia. So how do you feel about our birthmother?"

"I like that I know now that you are really my brother. I mean it's not different than before and I love Elliot just as much but it's nice to know that we are related by blood. About her... I hate her. I hate her for what she did to you and that she didn't even care enough about me to stop taking drugs as long as she was carrying me." She is silent for a moment and looks at her fingers.

"I always imagined that my birthmother was too young to keep me or gave me away because she couldn't care for me, you know that she wanted me to have a better life. And maybe that I would meet her one day and she would tell me that she loved me but had no choice but to give me away.

But what hurts the most is that Mom and Dad didn't tell us. They knew that Elena knew and that our birthmother is here. Why didn't they tell us before we had to find out like that?"

"I don't know Mia. I wish I could answer that. We should talk to them."

"I'm not ready I need some time to think, maybe later." I look at her and for the first time my little sister looks just sad and tired. I can't stand it.

"Ok, look how about next weekend we get away for a while. Elliot, you and I could spend the weekend in Aspen."

"That would be great. Oh but we have to bring Kate and Ana, too. They could use a break as well, plus whenever we are in Aspen Elliot and you go fishing and I hate fishing. I need some girls there too."

"Good I make the arrangements we can go saturday morning and fly back late sunday evening."

"Cool. Oh and I totally forgot. Jose told me that the saturday after next is Ana's birthday and that she usually ignores her birthday. I thought I let you know."

I smirk at her. "I know that you are trying to play cupid Mia."

"No, I don't need to. You two are both completely smitten with each other, you can work out the rest on your own. So I need a shower I feel yucky after all the crying and my make up is all over my face." she grins and we both get up. I give her a big hug and she beems at me before she takes off to go to her ensuite. I look after her and shake my head. Leave it to her to be happy with in seconds.

I get up and make my way back downstairs. I need to talk to my parents. I hope there are no more skeletons in the closet that could come up to bite us. And if there are any I want to know now.

I find Elliot, Kate and Ana in the kitchen talking. " How is Mia bro?"

"Better, listen I think we all can need a time out. How does Aspen next weekend sound to you Elliot"

"Count me in. I assume that I can bring Kate?"

"Yes I thought Kate and Ana can join us. Mia is looking forward to have a little girltime with them while we are fishing. Anyway where are Mom and Dad?"

"I think they are in Dad's study." I nod and ask Ana to follow me. I hope she can keep me calm when I will talk to them though nothing could have a more sobering effect on me as finding them in my Dad's study and my Mom is crying her eyes out.

"You should talk to them alone. It's not my place to be here. You will do just fine" Ana says gives me a reassuring smile and so I go in while she goes back into the kitchen.

"Mom?" They both look up and my Mom jumps to her feet, runs over to where I stand and hugs me as if her life would depend on it.

"Oh Christian I am so sorry... we should have told you, please forgive us." she sobs and again I am way out of my depth. Fuck I have never seen my mother cry like this and it hurts me.

"Mom please. Calm down, ok? Just let us talk about this." I'm glad when my Dad steps in and leads my Mom to sit in one of the chairs.

"You want a drink son?" he asks and hands me a tumbler of brandy when I nod. "Thanks, so first I'm pretty damn mad that you never told us. Fuck you both knew that Elena is around and that she knew didn't you think she would bring that up especially with my birthmother around?"

"Christian look a long time ago your mother and I decided not to tell you. Not only because we feared you would treat Mia differently but also because of your brother. He had a hard time adjusting when you came to live with us and he wasn't exactly thrilled when Mia arrived and he had to share our attention with her, too."

"It doesn't change a thing Dad, Elliot is our brother."

"Of course he is and now he is old enough to know that it doesn't matter that Mia and you are related by blood. But I'm not sure he would have seen it that way as a boy. Especially seeing how you were with Mia at first. You loved her right away and wouldn't let her out of sight. It was nothing like when you came to live with us. Elliot and you had to grow into being siblings. With Mia and you that wasn't the case, you had this bond right away." I stare at my Dad and ok I can see that they had reasons to do so back then, but that doesn't explain why they kept it from us now knowing that Elena knew.

"Fine I see and understand you had your reasons, but hell what about now. You knew that Elena knew and you just let her drop that bomb."

My Mom gets up again and takes my hand. "We were thinking about how to tell you. It's not that easy Christian. You were always very clear about how you feel about Ella and everything that is connected to her. I have to admit that I hoped she wouldn't go there. It was naive, you are right we should have told you and your siblings the moment she and Ella came back into the picture."

"I wish you would have done that. Shit Mia was packing when I came back and..."

"What oh my god. Is she running?" My Mom looks panicked ready to run upstairs but I stop her. "Mia is ok now. I talked to her and apologized for my rude behavior towards her. I will take her and Elliot to Aspen next weekend. If you want you and Dad can join us."

"Oh that's sweet of you darling but I have to work next weekend and your Dad and I have a function to attend. You go with your siblings, a little bonding time while be good for the three of you." She says with a warm smile. " Yes, I think so, too. I could use a break from all the Elena drama. But now I have to know. Is there anything else I don't know anything either one of you told her that she could use against us or bring up?"

"No, that was all, but once she finds out that she couldn't bring a wedge between us with what she did earlier she will probably think of something else. She is crazy and I don't think we have seen the last of her. Do you have her under surveillance?" My Dad wants to know.

"Yes, though we have a problem with keeping Ella under surveillance, she has a talent for disappearing without a trace." And that is understatement. The fucking bitch is like a nightmare for my team. She pops up unexpected and is gone before they can follow her.

"I see, well I don't think she is a real threat. Have you seen her, the woman was so under the influence that I don't think she had any idea what was really going on."

"I'm not going to take chances Dad. I guess Elena is financing her drugs so she will do what ever Elena is asking her to do and as we all know there is nothing she wouldn't do to get her drugs." I state bitterly. No I need to get them both under surveillance 24/7 and if I have to hire the national guard to do so, then so be it. I will not allow them to hurt my family.

Ana's POV

Christian is still talking to his parents and Elliot and Kate are making out in the kitchen, so I decide I leave them to it and go see if I can find Mia. I walk upstairs and hear music coming from one of the rooms so I knock and Mia opens the door only wearing a robe and with a towel wrapped around her wet hair.

"Hi Ana come in." she smiles and I get into her room. "I wanted to see if you are ok Mia."

"I'm better now. Thank you for talking to Christian. I know it was you who made him come back here. Otherwise he would have waited for one of us to make the first the move."

"You think?"

"Yes, it was always the same with Christian. If he had one of his temper tantrums, he would storms off and in the end he feels shitty and thinks we wouldn't want to see him anymore. So we have to go and make the first step." She shrugs and disappears into her walk in closet. "Has he asked you about coming to Aspen with us next weekend?" she calls out to me.

"No he told Elliot you guys would go and then told Elliot that Kate and I would go aswell, so I guess I have no choice." I chuckle.

"You have to come. Elliot and Christian will go fishing, so Kate, you and I can go do girls stuff. Oh I could book us a spa day. That would be fun."

"Why not I can always use a good massage."

Mia comes out of the walk in now dressed in jeans and a tank-top and beams at me. "Cool, I'll book everything tomorrow."

"Ok, where are we going to stay?"

"Christian has a house there. It's a great place, you'll love it. Oh by the way is there something you would like for your birthday?" How does she know? I frown and she smiles.

"Jose told me. He said you wouldn't mention it because you don't celebrate, so is there anything you would like to have?"

"No, I don't like celebrating my birthday. Let's make plans for Aspen instead it's my first time there."

"Really you never where before?"

"No. My family was a couple of times but with my dancing I decided to stay with Jose. You know a broken leg is not the best if you have to dance."

"Yeah I can see that. Oh when we go clubbing you can show me some moves, maybe you can manage to get Christian on they dancefloor I have a feeling there is not much he wouldn't do for you." She winks and I blush a little.

"Can I ask you something Ana?"

"Sure everything."

"I'm a little worried how Elliot will cope with the news. I mean it's not the same but your siblings have a different father. Do you feel less their sister because of it?"

"As a child I would sometimes feel like the outsider in my family. You know like they were all related but Ray isn't my Dad so naturally he must love them more. But as I got older I realised that wasn't the case. I wouldn't worry that much about Elliot, I talked to him downstairs. He is only worried about you and mad at Christian for the stunt he pulled earlier."

We both look up when there is a knock at the door and Christian comes in.

"Hey there you are. Umm if you don't mind Ana I would like us all to stay here tonight. It will send a message to Elena if she is watching us or has someone doing it for her."

"That's fine with me. So I take it you talked things out with your parents?"

" Yes thank you for making me go back. This is not the time to let anything come between me and my family."

"Your welcome." I smile at him and inwardly sigh with relief crisis averted, though I have a feeling that the worst is yet to come with that damned cougar.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Next chapter will be Aspen. Just some fun time before the plot thickens again. Until then please leave a review :)

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