I let my fingertips lightly run over Aria's chest as he sleeps peacefully underneath me. I had woken up about 30 minutes ago and immediately went to check on Kai, who was still passed out. His sleep schedule would be absolutely fucked after today, but I knew we could easily wear him out by playing with him once my parents, Kadri, and Ximena all get here. I wasn't too worried about it. After checking on my son, I came back in here since Aria was still passed out as well, so I just got back in bed and cuddled with him while I thought about everything.

I'm not going to lie, I was completely stressed at this point. I mean, Beckett knew where I lived, which meant that Amelia knew where I lived and I truly didn't think it would be good if I saw her. Even if it's been a little over three years since the sexual assault, to this day, it was still affecting me. I couldn't have anyone put too much pressure on my chest, I hate constriction on my ankles and wrists, and I still can't drink excessively due to it. Hell, I can't even wear a bracelet tightly without freaking out. So I knew that seeing the woman, the woman that caused all this torment, would be catastrophic but I had a feeling that I would have to see her soon.

I don't know what would happen if that ever did happen. Would I freak out? Would I block out all my emotions? Would I go numb? I had no idea. I had never been through something like this before and now, it was like all of it was coming back at once. It was like a tsunami had just come into his life and crashed all over my happiness. I didn't know what to do or how to handle it or how to-

I shoot up in bed, feeling my chest starting to get very heavy and my breathing becoming rapid. I shake my head a bit to try and rid myself of all those thoughts. I can't let Amelia affect me like this, especially since Kai needs me. He's probably terrified now, even if he wasn't acting like it. I need to stay strong for him, for me. Nothing good would come out of freaking out, especially now.

"Hey, you okay?" Aria asks me in a tired tone before I feel him moving beside me. He comes into view with a soft smile on his face while his hand starts to rub up-and-down my naked back. I put on a smile for him and nod my head.

"Yeah, I'm okay," I whisper and he seems to believe me because he settles his head on my shoulder. I was glad because I didn't want to talk about what I was thinking about now. I just wanted the rest of the day to pass by without anything bad happening. I'm taken out of my thoughts by Aria reaching over and grabbing my hand, distracting me when I see his tattoo that I hadn't really had a chance to look at ever since I saw it in the bar for the first time. I grab his hand lightly, bringing it up to my face to examine it.

It was of a very detailed, well-done star in the middle of his left wrist. He told me he had gotten it a year ago with Arabella, so it didn't look new or anything, but it did look really cool. I feel Aria kiss my naked shoulder before setting his head on it again. "You like it?"

"Yeah, I do," I tell him, turning my head to look at him the best I could. He smiles at me before picking his head up and pressing his lips against mine. I allow the kiss to distract me from all the bad thoughts going on in my head. His lips were soft but also rough at the same time, making me know that he was dominant at times, but also submissive at others.

He was like the perfect balance of masculine and feminine and it surprised me that I was so attracted to him. I usually went for very submissive guys, but him? He definitely wasn't just submissive, but I was still insanely attracted to him and his personality.

"Is Kai still asleep?" He whispers to me before moving his lips down to my neck, kissing the sensitive skin there. I tilt my head to him, giving him more access while his other hand slid between my thighs to move towards my groin. I shiver at the feeling of his fingertips dancing across my skin and he chuckles at that before continuing to bite lightly at my neck.

"Still asleep," I confirm before turning quickly and connecting our lips and slowly lowering him back onto the bed. I snatch the comforter that was covering him before throwing it off to reveal his still naked body that was so perfect that I didn't understand it. I don't dwell on his toned stomach or his pierced nipples or even his growing erection, but I focus more on his lips that were moving against mine. His hands wrap around my neck, pulling me closer but also not holding me too tightly to allow me to pull away whenever I wanted.

I run my tongue over his while he moans into my mouth, lightly pulling on the strands of my hair. My hand starts to stray from his chest to roam around, feeling that tight muscle underneath my palm. I make my way towards his groin, but before I could touch him, I hear the front door open before voices are heard. Aria immediately shoots up in bed to grab his clothes that were still discarded on the floor like he was scared people would walk in any second. I chuckle, knowing that my family wouldn't do that. Well... maybe Kadri, but she probably didn't even know I was in here.

I clear my throat, grabbing his attention while he buttons his jeans. "Do you want me to sneak you out of here or do you wanna meet my parents? It's totally up to you."

He smiles before shrugging his shoulders. "Well, I already met your son, so why not go all in today, huh?"

I chuckle before standing up. I grab my shirt from the floor before throwing it on to pair with the shorts I was already wearing since I put them on before we fell asleep. Aria had just finished pulling his shirt on by the time I came and stood in front of him, pulling him down to connect our lips once more. He smiles against my mouth, probably comforted by them since he was about to meet my family. I instantly pull away when I hear the distressed yell from my three-year-old. "Daddy!"

I don't even hesitate, I just rush towards the bedroom door and throw it open before making my way to the guestroom that Kai was still in. When I walk in, I flip the light switch to see Kai sitting up in bed with the blanket bunched up around him while tears were rushing down his face. "What's wrong, buddy?"

I rush over to him, picking him up before placing him in my arms in a tight hug as he continues to cry. I rock him slightly in my arms, looking up at the doorway to see Aria and Kadri rushing towards it to see what was wrong. I just close my eyes as I run my hand through my son's hair, hating that he looked so scared when I came in. "T-the d... door opened."

I hold in my sigh because I was absolutely right, he is scared. Beckett had frightened him and it would probably take some time for him to be okay again. I mean, he literally saw me get hurt today and probably heard the yells and the terrible things that the scary man had yelled at me. Of course, it would scare a three-year-old. I continue to rock Kai in my arms as his sobs start to die down a little now that I was here. "It was just Auntie Kadri, Mena, Grandma, and Grandpa, okay? No one's here to hurt you."

I pull back to look at his face and he shakes his head, reaching out to grab my shoulders again. He holds himself close to my chest, not wanting to pull away just yet. "B-but that m-man wanted t-to hurt m... me."

I look up when I hear someone walking closer to see Kadri coming over before she sits next to me on the bed. She reaches out and rubs her hand over his back as he starts to cry against my shoulder again. She lets out a sigh before leaning over and pressing a firm kiss to his forehead as I continue to rock him back-and-forth, hating that he was so terrified.

I would do anything to take away this fear, but unfortunately, I think only time could do that. Kadri speaks before I can. "Kai, that bad, bad man will never touch you, okay? You have so many people protecting you and he would have to go through all of us before he could get to you. He won't hurt you."

He finally pulls back to look at Kadri and me, who were both giving him a soft smile to help ease his worries. He wipes at his eyes before glancing at the doorway to see Aria, Ximena, and my parents all standing there watching us. As soon as they see him looking, they plaster on smiles for him as well, including Aria, who was clearly concerned as were all of us. When Kai sees my boyfriend standing there, he points to him before glancing at Kadri. "Even Air-ia?"

Kadri and I both glance at the man in question and he doesn't hesitate and gives Kai a smile and a firm nod of the head. "Including me."

I see my parents' smiles get wider when they hear his affirmation before glancing at him. Aria seems to feel their stares because he turns his head to look at the couple watching him with admiration. They probably weren't even expecting him to be here, so of course, they weren't expecting him to be so serious about keeping Kai safe.

My mom moves quickly, reaching out and pulling Aria into a tight hug before whispering something into his ear that I couldn't hear. I turn my head away from them to look at my son, who looked much better now. I lightly poke his belly, getting his attention. "No one is going to touch you without going through me, okay?"

Kai smiles before nodding his head, eagerly, looking pleased with my statement. He surprises me when he crawls out of my lap, confusing Kadri and I both since he was so scared a moment ago to even look at anyone but me. He had a huge smile on his face as he rushes over to hug Aria's leg, probably wanting to get in on the hug that he and my mom were still embracing.

Aria pulls away slightly to look at my son in confusion until his face clears when he sees who was hugging his leg. My mom pulls away before gasping lightly when she sees her grandchild's position because it was definitely unusual that Kai was so quick to hug someone. I mean, he was just terrified out of his mind and now he was hugging a stranger, practically.

Aria glances at me first while his hand subconsciously reaches down to run over Kai's dark, slightly curly hair. I immediately stand up and walk over to them, grabbing Kai from underneath his arms to hold him close to me again. He glances at me, looking very nervous that he had done something bad, but I smile at him before kissing his cheek to tell him it was alright. His nervous look turns to one of happiness before he wraps his arms around my neck.

About two hours later after my mother made everyone dinner, making Kai's favorite of chocolate chip pancakes, hash browns, and bacon, we all sat on the couch in the living room while Kai watched TV on my phone while sitting on my lap with headphones. We had finally decided that we should talk about what happened this morning, so I had distracted Kai so he didn't have to hear anything about it anymore.

"And he just showed up? Like, there was no warning, no messages from him?" My dad asks, leaning forward on his elbows with a confused look. I know everyone's eyes were on me, including Aria, who was sitting in the chair next to the couch since my mother asked him to stay because she wanted to have a conversation later. Knowing her, she'll probably just wanna show him baby pictures of me or something, I don't know.

I look down at Kai to make sure he was preoccupied before taking a second to run my hand through his hair for some comfort. His face breaks out into a smile because of something funny on the show he was watching and I smile as well, feeling better to talk about this after seeing that. I glance up at my dad, seeing that he was also smiling at the little boy in my lap. "Uh, yeah, he just showed up."

"What the hell does he want?" Kadri grumbles, leaning back against her girlfriend while crossing her arms over her chest. I glare at her even though she wasn't looking at me and was more focused on staring at the ground with hatred clear in her eyes.

"Language," I warn her and her head snaps up to look at me before she returns the glare.

"He's not even listening," she says, pointing to Kai that wasn't listening.

"I don't give a fuck," I grumble at her, making her throw her arms up in exasperation while everyone else in the room chuckles. She looks back at me with a glare that had a playful side to it, making me feel better. I tear my eyes away from her to look at my mom next to me, who had reached out to touch the back of my head lightly with a worried look on her face. I go to say something but she beats me to it.

"Are you sure you don't have a concussion?" She asks in a concerned tone.

I shake my head, reaching out and grabbing her hand in mine. "No, it's not. Aria's sister looked at it and she said it was okay."

"How does she know?" Ximena asks before I could continue speaking.

"She was an EMT," Aria answers, not taking his eyes off of me. I look at him, seeing that he also looked worried, probably since he noticed that my mood had dropped a bit since we started talking about this. I give him a comforting smile, which he gladly returns.

"Wait, hold on," Kadri says, sitting up from her spot on the floor and holding her arms up in confusion. I look away from Aria to glance at her to see that she looked a bit worried along with perplexed at what we were saying. "how does Aria's sister know? Did you see her?"

"Uh, yeah, I went to Aria's brother-in-law's office since that was the only place where I knew there would be people. I thought I told you that," I say with a confused look myself because I thought she already knew. I look down when Kai leans back against my chest, holding my phone with both of his hands while the bright colors continue to flash on the screen from his show he was so enthralled in. I tear my eyes away from him to look at Kadri, who was now really glaring at me with no playful side to it.

"No, you didn't mention that actually. Why the fuck did you go there?" She grumbles. Ximena glances between her and me, knowing that this would probably go bad very quickly since her girlfriend's mood seemed to also be pretty terrible at the moment.

My mood drops down as well because she sounded actually disgusted that I had gone to the only place that I knew how to get to that actually had people there. Was I supposed to go to her house where there would be no people and I probably would've just freaked out even worse than I already was? "Where the fuck did you expect me to go?"

That seems to create a tension in the air because you could clearly cut it with a knife as Kadri's glare gets even deeper. I notice that her hands were gathered in fists, which is what she usually did whenever she was angry. I don't know why the hell she was mad, it's not like she got beat up this morning and had to protect her kid. She sits up a bit before pointing to herself. "I don't know, but you could've fucking called me. I would've left that meeting immediately if you had just told me. The only reason I didn't come back as soon as you actually called is because you sounded okay."

"Well, I fucking wasn't," I snap before I could help myself. My mom's hand brushes against my arm and I shrug her off, really not wanting anyone to touch me besides my son that still sat on my lap, unaware of what was going on. "and I didn't have a fucking phone. What did you expect me to do? Write a letter and hope it got there in time? No, I went to the place that I knew I could go because you all were gone, so suck it up and deal with it."

Her glare gets even more intense and Ximena has to pull her down so she doesn't get up. "I'm so sorry that we were gone, Levi, but how the hell was I supposed to know that he was going to show up? How was I supposed to know the husband of your rap-"

"No!" I scream at her, scaring everyone, including Kai in my lap that turns to look at me. I notice that Kadri had cowered in on herself a bit at my tone, but I didn't care because I knew what word she was going to say and she knows how much it triggers me. It wasn't right that she was going to do that because she was angry. It wasn't fair. I lower my voice to sound deathly calm, even though I could literally cry with how mad and upset I was right now. "You don't get to say that fucking word. You don't."

She seems to snap out of her trance of being angry because her face clears of all of it. She instead turns very, very sad in the moment, looking around the room to see everyone's reaction. Before she could say anything, Kai beats her to it while he sets his phone next to us before standing up on my thighs to get in front of my face. He looks a bit nervous to face me, so I clear my head of all my anger to make him feel better. "Y-you said a bad word, Daddy."

"You're right," I say with a simple nod of the head, reaching out and brushing my hand through his hair. "I'm sorry I said a bad word."

He seemed pleased with my apology because he wraps his arms around my neck before tucking his head against my cheek with a cute sigh. I hold him tightly, never wanting him to get hurt or scared again and never, ever wanting him to see me get that angry again. He didn't deserve that. I look up when Kadri's voice cuts into my thoughts. "I'm so sorry, Levi. That wasn't right of me and I apologize."

I just nod my head, not feeling like talking anymore. I tighten my grip around my son and hide my face in his tiny shoulder, comforted by his touch. My mom lets out a sigh before running her hand over my head. "I swear you two fight like a married couple."

"They practically are a married couple," my dad cuts in. Everyone in the room chuckles beside Kai and me because he probably didn't understand what that meant and I was so focused on my son at the moment. We all sit like that for the next few minutes until I start to get emotional because I was tired of this crazy day. So much has happened that I never even thought of happening and I was overly stressed and exhausted that I couldn't think straight right now. I sniffle against Kai's shoulder and he pulls away instantly to look at me, watching as a tear falls down my face.

"Daddy, no! No crying!" He says in a terrified voice before reaching forward and running his hand over my cheek like I usually do when he's crying. I nod my head before wiping my tears away with the sleeve of my shirt as I feel all eyes on me.

"Levi," Mom whispers, leaning over to wrap her arm around my shoulder before kissing my cheek. "everything will be alright. Whatever we have to do to make sure you both are okay, we'll do. You both are our top priority right now and we'll figure everything out."

I cover my face with my hands, feeling myself getting even more emotional at her words. The fact that we even had to focus on Kai and I was the thought that troubled me. I didn't want this. I didn't ask for this. I just wanted to live my life with my son and my family and my boyfriend and not have to worry about any man intruding on my life to try and take my kid away from me. Why did something always have to come in and fuck everything up when times were actually good?

"Hey, Kai, come here," Kadri said in a slightly higher pitched voice to encourage him to go to her even more. I feel Kai shaking his head because he was moving his whole body since he really didn't want to.

"No," is all he says. My mom continues to run her hand through my hair while also whispering soothing things into my ear that wasn't making an impact with my mind. I hear movement next to me before Kai is picked up off my lap before he lets out a terrified yell. "no!"

"You can go see Daddy again in a few minutes, alright? He just needs a little bit of time to calm down," Kadri whispers and I hear him whimper a bit, but he doesn't try to come back over to me from what I know. I continue to cry into my hands, trying not to be too loud since I didn't want to worry my son any more than he already was. I feel my mom scoot over a bit before patting the spot next to me. I look up at her in confusion before hearing movement next to me, glancing up to see Aria walking over.

He plops down in the spot next to me and I look over at Kai because I didn't want him to get jealous or anything because Aria could be by me, but he couldn't right now. But he was occupied with my phone again, seeming not too stressed or anything that he wasn't with me. Since I wasn't worried about him right now, I throw myself into Aria's arms, burying my face in his shoulder as my emotions continue to plummet.

"We're all here," he whispers into my ear before kissing the top of my head. I nuzzle even further into him as my crying ceases because I felt comforted. Not only by Aria but all the people in the room because I knew that they would do anything to keep Kai and me safe. Even if times were tough right now, I had people. Aria was right, they were all here for me and that's what made me feel better. I keep my arms around my boyfriend, not wanting to move away just yet. His hands were running up-and-down my back and he was kissing my head every time I move. He repeats the statement to me. "we're here."

I look up slightly to see everyone staring at me still, except for Kai since he was occupied watching his show on my phone while he sat on Kadri's lap. I glance up at my mom and she immediately puts on a smile before grabbing my hand and running her thumb over the back of my hand. "You and Kai will stay here for the next few days or weeks or however long you feel you need or want to."

I sniffle slightly, using the sleeve of my shirt to wipe my nose. "I'll have to go back to my apartment for work."

"Why can't you work here?" Aria asks in a soft voice before kissing my head again. I tighten my grip on him before nuzzling my head into his neck once more.

"We don't have WiFi here," my mom explains to him, sounding a bit worried. I could tell that everyone here didn't want me to go back to the apartment so soon because we didn't know what Beckett was planning. If he showed back up again, I didn't know what I would do. I don't think I would have the same strength I had this morning so it really wasn't safe so soon. He seemed super unpredictable and would probably do anything to get what he wanted.

"Well," Aria says before hesitating a bit. "well, you can work at my apartment until you go back to your place. I don't work for the next week because I have to do stuff for my internship, so you won't be alone until I go back."

I pick my head up to look at him to see if he was serious or not. When I see his face, he was, in fact, completely serious, which surprised me. I hadn't seen his place ever since we started dating, so this might be another step in our relationship that we'll cross off our list. I had seen the outside of his place, but never inside, so I assumed there was a reason for that, but maybe not. I smile at him, nodding my head. "That would be great."

He smiles before pecking me on the lips, trying not to make it too long because of all the people that were in the room and looking at us. "Okay, awesome. How about I pick you up on Monday and then take you to my place and at the end of the day, I'll take you to Roman's place to get your car?"

"We'll have to drop Kai off at daycare," I whisper to him.

"That's perfectly fine," he whispers. I smile at him before settling my head on his shoulder again. He grips my hand in his, running his thumb over the back of it while I let out a tired sigh. I look up at Kadri to see her giving me a small smile as she looks between Aria and me with fondness.

When we meet eyes, she winks before looking back down at my son who giggles at the show he was watching. My mom starts asking Aria questions, mostly about school since she also notices how excited that makes him. I stay in that spot with my head on my boyfriend's shoulder, watching Kai smile at the phone screen while listening to my man ramble on about the stars that he was so interested in.