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Even The Good Die

Anastasia
I get a call from the hospital and rush to get there, but I am too late. One of my friends has died during an undercover operation. He left three children and no other relatives. His wife died in childbirth a year ago. David and Deborah Ford were in a few training sessions with me. I have to go pick them up and talk to the family attorneys. David Allen jr. 6, Ashley Lynn 3 and Annabelle Rose 1 are being cared for by a nanny until I arrive and decide what I need to do with them. I fly to New York in the jet I just purchased. I started looking for a home that can accommodate all of us including staff. Nothing like being back in New York again. I walk into my home and it looks the same, the staff have done a great job of keeping it up. They have been making money from the extra rooms in the houses on the estate. My room is locked up tight per my request. I have everything ready to go in a month and I hire the nanny to take care of the children. I have looked into getting the guest rooms ready for the children. Kate's not happy that we have three children arriving at our apartment. I told her that I was buying a home and it needs some work and it has extra homes on the grounds if she wants to check one out. We can keep the apartment and she can renovate the house the ways she wants to. Now if I can raise these children. I was just starting to enjoy my dating life too. I need to enroll the children into the childcare center as quickly as possible. David will be in school and Ashley and Annabelle will be in daycare and the nanny will have them the time when they aren't with me.

Kate
I will be spending more time with Elliott and he has agreed to check out the houses and see what they need in repairs. Anastasia had the keys delivered to me and a security team will be evaluating what it needs to become safe from home invasions. She has some specialists coming to create safe rooms for all the structures and has ordered special equipment for the whole place. I have no idea what they are, but Elliott told Christian about it and he asked if he could get similar items as well. We have found a house that has a separate fenced in area and entrance to the main road. It has three bedrooms and an amazing view. Elliott has ordered everything I want and has assured me that it will be ready in six months at most. Anastasia is a soft hearted soul. Something tells me that she is going to have to give these three up as well. Sadly three weeks later I walked into the apartment and watched as all the children's things were packed up. The attorneys screwed up and Amber her twin sister was supposed to be the one who adopted the children. They mixed them up because both were twins Amber and her husband and twins arrived and picked up the three children while she was giving a lesson in the helicopter. The Cross family jet was waiting to leave with the children. Anastasia was informed the night before and the nanny flew back with them. Mia had given Amber a little too much information and that was how they discovered that Anastasia had the Ford children living with us. The house is still being worked on anyway.

Christian
I tried calling Anastasia and she isn't answering her phone. Elliott informed me what happened with the three Ford children and her twin sister was supposed to adopt them. The attorneys mixed the twins names up. I guess she was depressed about losing them, but they are going to be her nieces and nephew. At least they weren't with her long this time.  She is still having everything worked on at her new home though. I decide to take her out for dinner and dancing. Elliott and Kate invited themselves and Mia and Ethan came as well. Anastasia was sad but she enjoyed herself and we danced a lot. I noticed a few guys trying to get Anastasia to dance with them as she went to the ladies room. She turned them down very quickly. One guy ended up with a knee to his groin and he limped back to his date. Theresa Prescott told him to stay away from Anastasia or get kicked out of the club.

Ethan
I had no idea how tough Anastasia was when I caught her kneeing the thug in his groin after he tried to force himself on her. I think Mia could use some training in self defense after being grabbed on our honeymoon. Luckily security was there and saved the day. I think I will ask Anastasia to train Mia and Kate in self defense, it might come in handy.

Mia
Ethan told me to ask Anastasia to train me and Kate in self defense. He told me about what she did to a guy who grabbed her as she tried to go to the ladies room. He was delivered to his date and told to stay away from Anastasia or get tossed out on his butt. We had a lot of fun dancing. It was a great night for all of us.

Elliott
Kate and I were too busy to notice that something had happened to Anastasia around the ladies room. Kate heard the name of the guy who had tried to grope Anastasia and she wanted to tear him a new one. I told her she needs to get self defense training and she laughed at me. She told me to meet her at the gym and she would show me her skills. I had no idea what she meant until she had me flipped onto my back the next day and told me that Anastasia got tired of saving her ass from goons in college.