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Chapter 25

  "I am Diego Salazar, leader of the Los Angeles. Yes mother, the cartel that has had a hit on you for over 30 years."

  Natalia lowered her gun from Diego's chest but pointed it to Michelangelo who had been in Gregori's arms the whole time. Camden screamed and tried to get close to her son but Ethan and Niko held her back. Gregori moved so he was blocking Mickey. Alexia calmly walked towards her mother and grabbed the gun and took it from her hands.

  "My plan would've worked to separate you from my Niko Camden. You are not worthy of my son! You are not worthy of him no one is! He is my son! I am the only one that can love him the way he should be loved! No Beverly is worthy of loving a Gabrielli, you Vincent ruined me by marrying Susan! You should have married me! I am the woman you were meant to be with! Not with that woman!"

  She had been lead out by security which were called when she had pulled out the gun. Gregori never expected his ex wife to pull a gun out and point it at her children. She needed to be sanctioned and carted away. She needed to be locked up. After she had been lead away, the tension in the room lessened. Diego broke the silence first.

  "I am glad you know what woman she had become. I just wished it had turned differently. Gregori, is dinner ready?"

  He nodded as he gave Mickey over to his parents. He led everyone into the dining room. Diego, Camden, Niko, Clara, Conrad, Natalie, Vincent and Susan all went ahead of everyone. Alexia stayed back, she still had to process what just happened. She knew her mother was a different person just not that she was sick in the head. She sighed and turned to head into the dining room when she gasped. Ethan stood there looking at her, she looked into his blue eyes and saw the hurt and confusion she never wanted to see in his eyes again. She shook her head and tried to pass by him to go into the dining room. He grabbed her arm and stopped her from moving. He needed answers and from how the night turned out, she wouldn't have given them if he didn't force her to give them to him. She looked up to him but looked away from him like she had been doing all night since he had entered the house.

  "Talk to me Lex, after all this, just talk to me. Explain to me what the fuck just happened."

  She looked up at him again and tears slowly ran down her cheeks which he wiped away just like he used to. He held her cheek in his hand and she leaned into him.

  "I didn't want to leave Ethan, I wanted to marry you. I loved you but mother convinced me that you didn't love me, that you would just hurt me. I didn't want to run away."

  He didn't know what to believe. He wanted to believe her but the letter she had left, the letter he carried around with him, had told him otherwise.

  "But the letter you left said you never loved me, that you didn't want to marry me. That it had all been a joke that lasted too long."

  What letter? She had not left any sort of letter, she just picked up her dress and ran from the church. She hadn't had the time to sit down and write a letter. He saw the confused look on her face so he pulled out the letter he kept with him for her to read it. She read it and couldn't believe her eyes, her mother had forged her handwriting and gave him the letter without her knowing. She gave the letter back to Ethan.

  "I didn't write that Ethan. I hadn't had time to sit down and write you a letter, my mother must of wrote it and given to you. I would never write anything like this. I loved you with all my heart, I still love you, I never stopped loving you. I wanted to be with you, I wanted a life with you but mother being the vile woman she is made me leave. She made me believe you wanted nothing to do with me, that you weren't even at the altar waiting for me. She didn't want me to marry you. She didn't want anything to do with the Beverlys just because your father chose to be with your mother instead of her. But she had no right to sabotage my life just because hers didn't turn out the way she wanted it to. I am sorry Ethan, I am sorry for any pain I caused. Please forgive me."

  Ethan wiped away more of her tears and kisses her forehead then her nose and then finally her lips.

  "Baby, I was waiting for you at that altar but your mother came down the aisle before you and handed me the letter. Then she announced that the wedding had been cancelled. I couldn't believe what I read, I left the church and packed up. I took our honeymoon tickets and went away by myself. I haven't been back until last night when my mother asked me to come home. I forgive you darling I forgive everything, it hadn't been your fault."

  They kissed for a while but were interrupted when they heard Nikolai speak up.

  "It's about damn fucking time! The sexual tension was real thick."

  They both turned towards their family and saw everyone there. Mickey had his hands covering his face.

  "Ew Mommy, Zio and Zia are kissing!"

  Everyone laughed and hugged the couple and congratulated them.