Falter

Discovery

Ella's POV

Christian was in shock when I told him his father was looking for me and my brothers. He held me tight and I took comfort being in his embrace putting my head on his chest as I tried to slow my eradicate heartbeat. He placed kisses on the top of my head while rubbing my back and repeat
"Shhh its okay"
He took my hand and lead me to his lounge suite where we sat, he continued to hold me against him.
"Stay here, while I grab you a drink and then we can leave okay"
I had no words I just nodded my head. I watched him leave but I was in complete shock Christians father knew Dad all his life. I wanted to know about my Dad and my mother. I wanted to hear stories of their childhood, how they met, so many questions I wanted to ask. I stood and started to walk towards to the sound of Christian fathers voice. It seemed he was in his office I stood outside his door trying to gather my questions and how was I suppose to explain to him what happened that day. Whether I should talk to him, should I call the boys and let them know? I stood looking at his door and didn't realize Christian had been standing there until he reached out and touch my arm, I turned to him but couldn't really focus on him
"Hey, you okay baby?"
Stuttering "I I need to to ummm tell him everything"
"Are you sure you want to do that baby?"
"I have too"
He nodded his head and knocked on the door, before I realised Christian was walking into his father Jacobs office
"Hey Dad do you have a minute Ella would like to tell you something"
"Sure, sure please come sit"
I replied "Um I think it best if you sit and I'll explain"
"Okay, sounds serious"
After what felt like eternity I explained the story right from start to finish and this time I gave him the full version not the version I gave Christian because my Dad always said 'never lie to a lawyer they will always find out the truth' After I explained everything, and watched him shut and open his mouth as if he wanted to say something but didn't quite know what to say. He sat on his chair with his head bent looking at the carpet as if he was solving a clue amongst the threads of the carpet. I glanced at Christian, he looked at me with uncertainty, not sure what his father was going to say or do. We waited for him to gather his thoughts and then he stood looked me in the eyes and quickly took me in his arms and hugged me tight
"I've searched for so long and so far for you and your brothers, Thank God you all are okay"

Jacob stood walked towards his picture on the wall and removed it, there was a safe box in the wall, he opened the safe, and pulled out a large shoe box. He placed it on his lap as he sat in his chair, he looked at it and wipe the lid as if there was dust on it, but there wasn't. He opened the box and handed me a photo, when I looked closely it was a black and white photo of two young boys no older than 5 years old with their arms over each other looking at the camera smiling. Jacob explained the young boy on the left was my father, I couldn't believe it. Then this went on for several hours he would pull out a photo and explained the memory of the photo. But then he pulled out my favourite photo of my mum and dad, their first photo together I couldn't believe it and before I knew what was happening I was in tears, I was crying for the loss of my photo, for the loss of my apartment, and the loss of my parents. For all the things I wanted to share with them, for not being able to introduce Christian to them, or if I had children, they would never being able to sit on their laps and have the love I received all those years ago. Christian picked me up and cradled me in his lap and rocked me back and forward. I wasn't sure how long I had been like this, when I finally finished I looked up to see it was just Christian and I alone in his fathers office.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be all emotional its just that photo, was the same one my father gave me that day he he died"
" I'm sure my father would let you keep it baby, come on I want to take you home now, you need a nice hot bath and a good sleep"
" Thank you"

He was right Jacob let me keep the photo, and he explained that he would like to see my brothers and that he was personally going to look into the fire at my apartment to get clues to who would do this.

All I wanted was to fall alseep in Christian arms and wake up to his beautiful face. I'll have to ring my brothers tomorrow.