When Different Worlds Collide ✔️

Move- Erik's POV

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The knock on my door was unexpected. Since we had moved, not many people came to visit that didn't just walk right on in. It immediately put me on edge.

As I walked to the front door, I thought of all the possibilities of who it could be. I was worried that her father had officially decided to do something about me and my family before we became more of an inconvenience for him.

"K-Kat?" I asked as she stood in the doorway with a bunch of folded down cardboard boxes under her arm and a smile on her lips.

I was happy to say that a couple of weeks had done her face a lot of good. The bruises on her face looked significantly better than they had. She looked happy.

"How do you feel about moving?" She asked brightly.

"Uh..." To say I was confused would have been an understatement. We had just moved less than a few months before, and we also had no house to move to. "What?"

"Graduation is tomorrow," Kat elaborated with a grin as I let her into my house.

"Yes..."

"That means that the wedding is supposed to be less than two weeks later," she continued.

"Right... I'm still confused as to what this has to do with moving," I admitted.

"Well, tomorrow at the graduation party... Let's just say that all hell is about to break loose," she said cheerily.

"What do you mean?"

"I signed the shares over to Jake," she announced. "Sooo shit is about to hit the fan, and my father is about to be over the top mad," she answered with a shrug.

"Okay," I said as she began setting up boxes. "But... Where exactly are we going to move to? I understand that we can't stay here because of your dad but...?"

"Oh... I just figured that you've already talked to Jacob..."

"Nope. Care to enlighten me?" I asked.

"You see, I couldn't just give the man the shares due to tax purposes. Matt could give me his because we are engaged so it's a write-off as a gift to your significant other, but Jake and I had to come up with a selling point. So, I sold him the shares for a house. It's a beautiful house too. Not too far, still in a good neighborhood, even better than this one! The all-cash offer was accepted easily, and you'll have the deed in hand as soon as everything is finalized," she explained.

"So... We won't have to worry about being kicked out by your father? It'll be ours?"

"All yours," she said with a grin.

"Holy shit, Kat," I breathed out a breath that I hadn't even realized that I had been holding as I hugged her to me. Unfortunately, my happiness was quickly shrouded in doubt though. "W-what about the other part of your contract with him? What about the incriminating pictures? Will he-?"

"I'm going to take care of that, Erik. I've already swiped them from his computer, just have the hard copies and P.I. that I must deal with. Actually, I'm going to take care of that as soon as I show you the new house. I'd stay to help you pack, but... You know, duty calls when you're bringing down the whole empire that your father has built up on illegal and immoral grounds," she said with a laugh.

"Promise me that you won't do anything stupid, Kat..." I found myself saying.

"Erik, all of this is absolutely nuts, but I promise that I am being smart about everything. I am simply offering someone a better deal than what they have right now, and they'll take care of everything," she assured.

It didn't sound that promising, but it was about as good of a promise as I was going to get. I knew that the situation was screwed up, so I didn't want to push her too hard. She was helping me and my family, and that was all that I could ever ask for.

"So..." she said expectantly. "Don't you want to see the house?"

"Obviously," I answered. "Let me go get my mom though, she'd want to see it too."

I ran to go get my mom and my keys. I knew that my mom was going to be ecstatic. She had been far more stressed than she'd admit.

"Kat?" My mom asked as soon as she walked into the entryway where I called her to. "What are you doing here, sweetie?"

"I'm going to take you to your new house," she told my mom with a grin. "You're going to love it. It has a bigger kitchen, more space for your alterations, it even has a whole guest basement all done and everything."

"You got us a house?" My mother asked in shock.

"I made a deal to get you out of this unstable living situation. You all couldn't stay living in this home that my father owns. So, now, you'll own your own home. You'll have the deed in hand and everything," she told her.

I saw my mom's eyes welling up with tears. I understood it. She had been stressed ever since we had moved into the house that Kat's dad had moved us into. It was a nice house, but the uncertainty of a future in the home made it hard to enjoy it properly. Besides the fact that Kat getting out of our lives had been a contingency. Kat having to leave us was like missing a piece of our family.

"And don't worry about Erik and the stuff with T, Ms. Trina," Kat told her firmly as my mom hugged her. "I'm going to take care of it. By the time I'm done, it'll be like my father never touched your family."

My mother sobbed into Kat's shoulder. "This whole time I was wondering who was powerful and brave enough to stand up to a powerful man like your father, Kat. And now I see... It's been you all along. You have been the bravest and strongest person throughout everything, Katherine. You are so powerful."

She was... She was the most powerful thing in the universe because she had given herself permission to be just that. The thing was though, she was powerful like her father, but she was going at it in a whole different way. She was going at it through love.

She was helping the ones that she loves while finally bringing the ones down that didn't deserve her love. She was fighting the hate that was deeply seeded in her father's heart with the pure love that she allowed herself to feel. She was fighting for all of us. She was fighting for those she loved.