"What are you doing here?" Annie was annoyed to come face to face with someone she had poured her heart out to, only for him to turn around and blow her off.
"My mother is who is missing." Ethan sighed, saying those words hurt.
"You told me your mother was dead." Annie couldn't believe that someone would lie to get sympathy like that.
Ethan was quick to defend himself. "I thought she was, we all did." Ethan looked over at Robert, Frisco and Felicia, hoping for some help.
"It's true, I'm sure Tiff told you that. Otherwise Holly wouldn't have missed your father's funeral. Your mother is one of her best friends." Robert was hoping that helped.
Annie realized that Ethan had to believe that was the truth like they all did. "Right, sorry to question that. Your mother means the world to mine."
Ethan nodded. "No apology needed." Ethan wanted to explain himself to her but now wasn't the time. "Do you have anything on my mother?" He asked her.
Annie made sure the door was shut before speaking. "I was able to find someone..."
Before she could finish there was a knock on the door. Robert sighed, frustrated. "Bloody hell it's Holly and I living in the townhouse all over again." Robert got up and went over to answer the door.
On the other side of the door was Diane Miller, much to Robert's dismay. "What is it?" He asked impatiently.
"Well hello to you too Robert, don't tell me all your company is because of Holly?" Diane folded her arms, of course it had to be.
Robert wasn't about to put Ethan through this. He looked back at his company. "Excuse me for a moment." He stepped out into the hall. "You've got a hell of a nerve coming to my door with an attitude about Holly like that."
"I just think that her latest play for attention is transparent, she knows you all will fall for it." Diane told Robert.
Robert had had enough. "What do you know about Holly? What you've read? What You've heard? Ever hear about how she turned her life around in the eighties? How a cruel twist of fate put her in a coma. She woke up alone thinking she had lost me, which is a laugh because she could never. So yes she slid back into conning but as soon as she was able to try to help me when Anna went missing she did. She even risked her own life to save Robin's."
Diane rolled her eyes and huffed. "Oh great the Holly Sutton story as told by..."
Robert cut her off. "The love of her life. The one she came and sat with for about a year while I was in a coma. She would tell me stories, shave my face, hold my hand. She never quit on me."
Diane was surprised at Robert's reaction. "And that excuses her being on the wrong side of the law?" She smugly asked
"You're one to talk. Need I remind you which client you profit off the most." Robert pointed out.
Diane was infuriated. "I'm not even going to justify that with a response because clearly you aren't thinking clearly because it's Holly."
Robert shook his head. "No a few months ago I wasn't thinking clearly, now I am. I was stupid to not tell you then and there that it will always be Holly. Part of me felt lonely as if I needed to settle but that's not me, my life is Holly. Has been since I fell in love with her. Her, Robin, Ethan, Emma and Noah are the most important people in my life."
Diane shot him a scolding look. "You're really going to let her do this?"
"Remember when you told me you wouldn't compete with the love of my life? Good because you can't. Comparing her to my car that I love and painting yourself as a shiny new one doesn't work. Eventually the new car smell fades, the thrill of it being new goes too and your left with a pale imitation of what you once had. I've got to go now." Robert walked back inside his hotel room.
Diane stood with her lips pursed, shaking her head. "Unbelievable."
