*Chloe*
"Say girlfriend." Reece smiles as we pull into the garage of the château. "What are you doing tomorrow?"
"Nothing, if not with you." I shrug and step out of the car.
"Good. I'm taking you out for dinner."
"As in a date?" I wiggle my eyebrows at him.
"No. Not a date. But just a dinner. I've planned something else for our first date." He smiles proudly. Reece, always lived up to his playboy image, back in high school. Now, watching him do these things; planning a date, taking me out for dinner, just makes my heart flutter. I'm so lucky to be able to call him mine.
However, I won't let him take it this easy without being the 'drama queen' I am.
"Yeah... we'll see about that. Maybe I am busy in the evening." I try to keep a straight face but fail miserably.
"You're so dead, Martinez." I start running across the lot and he chases after me. Its not long, before he catches up to me and the next think I know, I'm being thrown on his shoulder, and carried inside.
"Reece, put me down." I laugh and hit my hands on his back.
"You wish." He laughs with me. My giggles and shrieks, fill the air inside the house, as his laughter accompanies us to the living room. Suddenly, everyone in there goes silent and looks at us. Reece puts me down and I wave at them.
"Hi guys, how were your trips." I say trying to hold back my giggles.
"FINALLY." The girls squeal, making the boys and me cover our ears. "You better tell me everything." Ash chimes, pulling me into a hug. Seconds later I feel a lot of arms wrapped around me. Group hugs. I always love them.
The sound of someone's phone going off, causes us to pull back, I look at Reece, to see it was his phone. "I gotta take this." He says and walks into the hallway, while the rest of head to the kitchen. Dad, Uncle Alex and Aunt Val, just boarded their flights, so they'll reach NYC by tomorrow morning or afternoon. Moments later, he comes back with the biggest smile playing on his lips.
"What is it?" I ask.
"I'm sorry, but I have to go right now. I'll se you tomorrow evening?" He says, pulling me to himself.
"What do you mean? Where are you going?"
"Well that's a surprise for tomorrow." He smirks and pulls me in a kiss. I smile next to his lips and then let him go.
"Tris, lets go." He says.
"Tris too?" He nods and with that, they both leave, after I give Tristen a hug.
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"I'm so proud of you kids. I can't thank you enough for doing this." Dad smiles at all of us. He's just going through all the packages we brought back.
"That's okay old man. We had fun." Jacob smirks, looking at Ella, who just turns the darkest shade of pink.
"I hope not too much fun." I whisper between both of them, earning a head smack. Everyone bursts into laughter except for Jacob.
"You just came back. Maybe you should rest a bit." I say to my dad once, everyone has left.
"Yeah, maybe I should." He yawns, while keeping the packages into the vault, behind the portrait of mom and him. On his way to his room he ruffles my hair, making me laugh.
I too head to my study, to work on something. While I was gone, I received an intel about Andres, recruiting more people in his gang. Right now, I don't know how many or for what, but I will find out soon enough.
=*=*=*=
"You sure it was the same hotel?" I ask one of my spy.
"Yes mam. The guy was following you and Mr. King since the minute you guys stepped out of the hotel. I spotted him at the diner, then he followed Mr. King to the jewelry shop and then back to the hotel." He says. Someone followed me and Reece to Philadelphia and my spy thinks its was one of Andres' men.
"Was he carrying any weapons?"
"No mam. He was more of an observer. He kept a safe distance. Even if you tried, you couldn't have spotted him in the crowed." No. I was careless. I let my guard down and didn't keep my eyes and ears open.
What if the guys was there to harm us. What if he harmed Reece while he was coming back from the shop. This is all my fault. "Thank you Peter. I appreciate your work." I hang up.
Sighing I burry my face in my hands. I can't make this mistake again. I can't let Reece go out alone. No one from my family for that matter. A soft knock on the study door, makes me look up.
"Hi." I smile at me greek god.
"Hi..." He walks up to me and places a kiss on my forehead.
"Ready?"
"For what?" I ask. My eyebrows knotted in confusion.
"And she forgot." He glares playfully. Oh my god, the dinner. I completely forgot about it.
"No... it just slipped my mind." I try to defend, with a smug smile.
"Its okay... Lets go now." He laughs, taking my hand and then dragging me along.
"Where are we going?" I ask once we were buckled up in his car.
"You'll find out soon enough." Reece smiles at me. "Hey Eve? Everything okay? You look a bit upset."
I sigh in defeat and tell him what Peter told me on the phone. Its better if he knows. At least he'll alert, and would be able to defend himself if something happens.
"This wasn't your fault, Miha. Besides, I'm fine. Nothing happened okay." He takes my hand and gives it a little squeeze, before kissing the back of it.
"I know but..-"
"No buts. We are fine. That's what matters." He cuts me off and pulls into the drive way of a beautiful house. The orange light rays from the sun, fall on its white walls making it look more beautiful.
"Whose place is this?" I ask as he ring the door bell and my question is answered the moment the lady opens the door.
To say I am shocked, would be an understatement. Tears pull in my eyes as I look at her.
"Oh Chloe." She pulls me in a hug.
"Linda?" I ask returning the gesture. "How? When did you come here?"
"We got in yesterday." She smiles.
"Take the girl inside mom." Reece chuckles. This is so unbelievable.
"Is that my favorite neighbor?"
"Luke?" I instantly run into the kitchen and hug him. "When did you come back from Manhattan?"
"It was time for me to spend some time with my family honey. So I transferred my business here." He informs. "And look at you. You've grown taller, little one." He smiles at me.
Luke and Linda are Reece's parents. His runs a business in Manhattan. Well, use to now. Reece and Tris' families have been like my second home. So yeah, believe me when I'm so happy to see them.
"I can't believe this. You guys are here." Linda too comes in with her son, as I take a seat next to Tris.
"Well, this guy, wasn't ready to have a safe and stable life." Luke nodded towards Reece. "So we decided, at least we can be the constants till the very end." He waves his hands at all of us.
"I missed you all."
"We too kiddo. Now, boys, go show Chloe around. We'll call you when the dinner's ready."
"So this is my room." Reece opens the door to his new room.
"Wow." I look around the navy blue room. A king sized bed, with black sheets, sits in the middle. A flat screen is hung on the wall opposite to it, while couple billion photos are on the right one.
"You brought them along?" Some photos are the ones from my room.
"Of course."
We then go and check out Tristen's.
"C'mon, there's something else you need to see." Tris says and then they both drag me to the basement. My eyes go wide at the huge, pin board hanging on the wall, with couple thousand papers, photos, and strings connecting them.
"Reece, what is this?"
"The reason, we joined Crusaders."
"What?"
"This is everything, on Andres from the day of your sister's funeral."
"But how? All her files are at the château, with me." How did you even manage to get this. I've been looking into this for 4 months, and the information I have is close to nothing." Its not possible for them to gather this much information in such short time span.
"Do you know your mom's last name, before she got married to you dad?" Tris asks.
"No. She never told anything about her previous life." Tris pulls me close to the board and points to one of my picture that says, 'Celia Diaz.' Wait what?
"Diaz? As in Antonio Diaz?" They both nod at me. Oh god. What is going on. This... this can't be possible.
"When we told Toni about your mom, he showed us this. He is Celia's older brother, Eve. He's been after that bastard since the day they killed Allison. When I told him I was moving to NYC, so he sent it with me. He said, its time for you to know everything."
"Maybe, we can sort things out. We can look for things that he missed out. We can find that motherfucker and burn him to the ground." Tris continues I nod at my boys.
"When did you guys become the smarty pants." I smile and then pull them in a hug. There's no way in hell that asshole is getting away this time.
Now that I have them by my side, There's no place on this earth where Andres' can hide.
=*=*=*=
"Is that the world famous, Luke lasagna." I laugh as the tasty smell of the melting cheese, fills my nostrils.
"Yup." Luke smiles. Suddenly the door bell rings.
"I got it." I quickly run off to the door. "What are you doing here?" What's going on with me today. How many more surprises before I die out of a heart attack.
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