"Oh and about the case, I think I've reached a conclusion"

"You have?" He asked

"Yeah, they trashed my house to make me forget about Junior knowing I was tired after the ordeal at the mansion. They knew I would be panicked" she narrated.

"You think it's all the same person?" He asked.

"I believe so" she sighed.

"Should we inform the police?" She asked.

"No" he replied.

"Why not?" She asked confused.

"It seems the enemy knows your every move, so they'll definitely know if you go to the police. They may do something worse than just breaking in" Angelo reasoned and grabbed her hands and sighed.

"We wouldn't want that now would we?" He smiled leaning closer and Mia tensed.

His eyes moved back and forth between her lips and eyes.

They both heard a loud cough and Mia pulled her hands away from Angelo's and they turned to find Junior in a towel at the doorway staring at both of them.

"Your clothes are on the bed" She smiled and he nodded and left his gaze still on them causing Mia to laugh.

"I have to go make those sandwiches" She smiled at Angelo and headed back to the kitchen.

Soon Mia arrived with the sandwiches and Junior wasted no time diving right into them.

"Thanks again for having us" Mia whispered to Angelo as they sat at the table.

●●●

Junior was well tucked in and she just finished having a shower.

She made her way to the living room but couldn't find Angelo, so she went to the kitchen but still couldn't find him.

She heard the front door close and found Angelo at the door.

He raised his head and jumped a bit when he saw her.

"Where were you?" She asked.

"Um...... someone rang the doorbell they were looking for some Frank, so I told them they had the wrong address" he replied.

"Alright, well Junior is asleep" She smiled and he walked over to her.

"You should also be asleep" he smiled.

"Maybe you're right" She turned around and headed to the room but he grabbed her hand to stop her.

"Sweet dreams" he said and she smiled.

•••

The next morning, Mia was at work with Junior, she needed permission to drop him off at the mansion.

Mia was kind of pissed off at Valerie, the one thing she disliked about her sister was that she never kept her word. If she knew she wasn't ready to take care of a child, why have the child?

Larry wasn't around so she began to set up and waited for customers to arrive.

Junior begged to help but she was against it but after a while she allowed him.

He handled the serving and always seemed to get a tip because he was cute.

Larry finally arrived and was shocked to see many customers.

"Who do we have here?" She asked smiling.

"My nephew sir, but I need to take him home" Mia smiled hoping Larry was in a good mood and he would let her leave.

"Of course" Larry smiled raising his hand to Junior for a high five which he accepted. She never knew Larry liked children.

"Help yourself to whatever ice cream you want and a doughnut" Larry smiled.

"Really?" Junior asked ecstatic and Larry nodded.

"Aunt can I?" He asked cheerfully.

"Of course you can" Mia replied and the boy rushed over to the ice cream machine and pumped different flavours into his cup.

As they entered her car, she dialled her sister on the phone but there was no reply.

Junior was focused on his ice cream while she kept leaving missed calls for her sister.

"Come on Val" she groaned but she still hadn't answered.

"Damn it!" She cursed and Junior turned to her.

"You didn't hear that" she smiled patting his head and he nodded with a smile of his own.

He was used to this routine.

They drove all the way to the mansion, it's always a long journey.

Her phone rang and she looked at the caller ID to see it was Valerie.

"Junior please help me answer the phone" she requested focusing on the road.

Junior complied while shoving his doughnut into his mouth.

"Hey mum" he greeted putting the phone on speaker.

"Anthony darling, how are you enjoying your vacation?" She asked cheerfully.

"I'm good mum, I'm with aAuntMia" he replied.

"Okay, tell your aunt I'm sorry I'm late but your dad and I are on a plane now we'll be home soon and come pick you from her house" Valerie informed.

"No need mum, Aunt is taking me to grandma's castle" Junior cheered making Valerie laugh.

"Alright dear, I'll see you soon and tell your aunt that we'll talk soon okay?" Valerie said.

"Sure, bye mum" she waved at the screen and Valerie hung up.

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They arrived at the mansion.

"Miranda Martinez" Mia called to the audio security check.

"Welcome Miss Miranda, Seems you have another passenger" the voice replied.

"Junior Anthony Ortiz!" Junior shouted at the audio security and Mia stiffked a laugh.

"Welcome home Anthony" the voice replied and the gates opened to let them in.

As she parked, she noticed her mother's fafavouritear wasn't parked.

She looked around and noticed a lot of their cars were missing.

Did they go out?

She swallowed hard, there was always someone at home.

Junior jumped down from the car.

"Grandma, Uncle Jeff? Aunt Cathy!" He called running towards the front door and Mia pushed it open.

It was empty, there was no soul in sight and it was oddly quiet.

"Aunt where's everybody?" Junior asked worried.

"I don't know sweetie, let's check upstairs" Mia said and Junior held her hand as they went up the stairs.

They halted at the sound of heels clicking against the floor and looked up to find Beverly walking down the stairs.

All her attention was on her phone that she didn't notice them.

Mia didn't say anything and shushed Junior and they waited for Beverly to reach the step they were on and Junior rushed to hug her.

Beverly screamed in shock and looked down at who hugged her before sighing in disbelief.

"Wow, Mia you can't take care of one child" Beverly smiled when she saw Mia on the steps.

"Junior go play and don't eavesdrop we might use some big words" Mia said and Junior saluted before running upstairs.

"What is it Beverly?" Mia asked she wasn't in the mood for Beverly's nonsense.

She was only sweet to her the other day because she was the perfect wife infront of Andrew.

"You pretend to be some Saint, acting like you don't want the property for yourself, but I know people like you, You act all innocent but you keep looking for excuses to come back to the mansion and today, you decided to use a small boy" Beverly smirked knowingly and Mia sighed at how ignorant the woman was.

"Where's everyone?" Mia asked ignoring all that Beverly had said.

"How's that your business, You knew they all went out do you come to steal something for yourself isn't it?" Beverly asked and Mia couldn't stop her laughter which pissed Beverly off.

"Look Miranda, my fiancé is going to own all of this and I'll be the first lady of this house and you'll be nothing" Beverly smiled and Mia wondered why she was even talking to the crazy delirious woman.

Mia ignored her and noticed one of the servants pass by and turned to her.

"Hey, where's everyone?" Mka asked.

"Good morning madam!"

"They all went to the hospital to see sSirJeffery, but sSirNeil went to the office" The maid answered.

"Take good care of Junior and let everyone know I left him in you and Miss Beverly's care okay?" Mia smiled heading for for the door.

She headed over to the hospital stopping at a restaurant to get a salad for Jeffery.

●●●

She arrived at the hospital and found her mum, Andrew and Catherine arguing with Jeffery.

"Hey what's wrong?" She asked entering the room.

"We were going to move him to a better hospital today but he refuses" her mother complained.

"Why should he, they are taking good care of him" Mia defended.

"Thank you!" Jeffrey was glad someone was on his side.

"Who are you, My daughter would never let her brother stay in this filt" her mother argued.

"Come on mum, if he wants to stay why not just let him" Mia shrugged.

"Do you really want to stay?" Andrew asked turning to Jeffery.

"I don't want to leave" Jeffrey murmured watching his family debate on his fate in the hospital.

"This place isn't safe for you Jeff and besides who's going to look after you, Mia's git work and so do we" Rozelle argued.

"Actually, He's safer here" Mia argued.

"What do you mean?" Rozelle asked.

"Mum, the people that shot Jeff aren't going to stop, we are all their targets" Mia said and Rozelle shouted.

"I'm too young to die" her mother argued.

"Mum, you're not a target, we are but I think they are only after the property and they'll do anything to get it including eliminating us" Mia said.

"How do you know all this?" Catherine asked.