Michael's POV

I've barley slept last night thinking about Carley and I still can't get my head around it. She obviously hasn't told Leanne who she is because she obviously would have told me, but she's been working with her for months. If she'd turned up and told her who she was I could understand, but she hasn't said anything and what worries me the most is if she didn't come here to tell Leanne the tuth then what did she come here for? and what is she planning?

I didn't have a chance to find out any of these things yesterday because I was more concerned with trying to get Leanne as far away from her as possible. She's supposed to be going to work today, but I disabled the alarm on her phone and woke up extra early before the twins did so I could get to them before they woke her up and hope for the best she stays asleep long enough for me to speak with Randy and try and figure something out.

I know I can't keep her away from the hotel forever, but I just need to somehow keep her at home until we can do something about Carley.

It's 7am and I get a text from Randy to let me know he's outside and I quietly open the door and let him in. "I told you to be here an hour ago" I whisper. "Sorry, but some of us don't usually wake up until later. I've never even seen a 6am before and.."

"Whatever just shut up and come in here" I cut him off and he follows me into the living room. "I don't give a fuck about what time you wake up. We need to do something about Carley"

"How could you not have known she was working there? You own the place"

"Leanne takes care of the resturant side of thing's and how could you not have known? You were helping Janet there while we were away and..."

"Should we be talking about this here?" He cuts me off. "It's fine. Leanne's asleep just keep it down"

"What about.. the little ears over there?" He points at Ryan and Annabelle. "Their not gonna tell her are they? They can't even sit on their ass's without falling over yet, let alone talk" I frown at his stupidity. "Can we just try and think about this? Leanne's not gonna stay asleep forever. She's gonna wake up and start getting ready for work and we need to find away to keep Leanne away from the hotel and get rid off Carley"

"We could just not say anything. I mean if Carley hasn't said anything yet the maybe she isn't going to" he shrugs. "Leanne's her daughter... She's spent 18 years looking for... harassed you on the phone for weeks and moved all the way from Indiana to California. You really think she came here to work? Do you even care about any if this?"

"Of course I do! I'm just suggesting"

"You didn't know about this did you?" I look at him suspiciously. "Of course not!"

"Swear on their lives. You didn't know" I say, pointing at Ryan and Annabelle. "I swear on you children's lives. I had no idea until you called me yesturday" he rolls his eyes and I nod, knowing that he wouldn't swear on their lives if he was lying.

"Well I was thinking maybe it'll be best if Leanne and I move away with the twins and.."

"You can't just pack up and leave. Your family's here and your job and your business and what would you tell you Leanne? You don't think she's gonna be a little suspicious why your moving all of a sudden?"

"Not really. We've talked about buying a new house for awhile and I'll just say it was surprise. She'll love it. Nice house. New state and..."

"Mike. Your whole life is here in California. You can't just pack up and leave because Carley's here" he cuts me off. "Well do you have a better idea?" I shrug and he doesn't say anything for a moment.

"We um.. We could kill her" he mumbles.

"..... Are you high?"

"it's just a suggestion" he shrugs. "Well we're not killing anybody. What the fuck is wrong with you!?" I frown. "It worked with Mary and I didn't see you telling Leanne no and..."

"That was different. I didn't know she was gonna do it"

"But it worked. It got rid of the Mary problem and.."

"I'm gonna get us some drinks and when I come back we need think about what we're gonna do" I sigh heavily. "But I just told you we could..."

"No murders" I frown cutting him off and go I to the kitchen to get a drink.

I have no idea what's gotten into Randy or if he's just acting this way because he's awake so early, but he's acting like he doesn't even care what's going on and coming out with random bushit ideas.

"You think of anything?" I ask going back into the room and hand Randy his drink. "No, but I really need to use the bathroom"

"Fine, but be quiet" I whisper and he nods and leaves the room.

"AAAAHHHH!!!" Randy suddenly screams and rushing back in the living room, holding the side of his face, which scares the twins and they start crying.

"What the fuck did I just say!?" I snap in a hushed tone, trying to calm Annabelle and Ryan. "YOUR FUCKING PHYCHO CAT ATTACKED ME AGAIN AND..."

"Stop... fucking... yelling" I frown and I hear the bedroom door opening upstairs. "And now she's awake! Thanks"  I snap.

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Leanne's POV

"Hello?" I mutter nervously as I walk down the stairs and see Ryan and Annabelle on their own in their bouncers. "I'm in here" I hear Michael and walk into the living room and he's by the sink with Randy.

"What's going on? I heard a woman screaming" I frown confused and Michael starts laughthing.

"It's not funny!" Randy snaps. "You cat attacked me!"

"Bugsy did that?" I frown confused and see the side of his face bleeding. "Yes! The psycho just jumped up and scratched me!" He snaps "You must have done something to piss him off. Bugsy's really friendly" Michael shrugs "Yeah. He's real fucking friendly!" Randy snaps, pointing at his face and I hear Bugsy cry and slowly limp into the room.

"What the fuck happened to his paw!?" I frown picking him up. "I may have stood on him when I was leaving the room, but he was just laying there and..."

"So you stomped on him! What the fuck is wrong with you!?" Michael snaps and comes over to me with some ice for his paw.

"That's ok. You two just take care of the cat. I'll just stand here and bleed to death!"

"You'll be fine" I sigh rolling my eyes and take Bugsy into the living room before he gets hurt again.

*
After Bugsy has calmed down, the three of us are sitting playing with the twins for awhile then I go upstairs to get ready for work, but when I come down I hear Randy and Michael whispering, but they quickly go quiet when they see me.

"What are you two whispering about?" I ask going into the room. "Nothing" Randy shakes his head inocently. "Ok. Well I have to go to work and.."

"Wouldn't you rather stay at home today? I'll call Janet and say we don't need her to watch the twins today" Michael cuts me off. "I can't. I really have alot to do and I'm supposed to be training the new girl Carley. I was meant to do it weeks ago but..."

"I need to talk to you about that?" Michael cuts me off again which is really starting to annoy me. "I really don't think it's gonna work out with her being there. It's too much work for you and you could hire someone that already knows the job" Michael suggests. "It's not that much work. Plus I'm gonna be there anyway. I know Carley not very good right now, but she's doing ok" I shrug "she just needs a little more training. It shouldn't take me more than a few weeks if I work with her every day. She'll be fine" I smile and peck his lips then break away and look at them both confused.

"Has something happened?" I ask and neither of them say anything for a moment.

"I caught Carley stealing" Randy  quickly says. "She What!?" I frown. "Yeah. He went by yesterday when we left and caught her stealing from your office"

"Why didn't you tell me this yesterday?" I frown confused at Randy and he shrugs. "You and Mike we're having a nice time just the two of you and I didn't wanna ruin it"

"Well you should have told me" I frown and turn to leave the room and Michael takes my hand, stopping me. "Where are you going?"

"Where do you think? I'm going to work and I'm gonna be firing Carley. I'm not gonna have someone steal from me" I frown. "I'll deal that. Why don't you just stay here and relax" Michael says and I shake my head. "It's fine. I was the one that gave her the job so I should be the one to deal with"

"Maybe it'll be better if Mike does it" Randy cuts in. "She got pretty aggressive with me when I confronted her. You don't want her getting aggressive with you"

"I guess not. But..."

"Then I'll do it" Michael smiles cutting me off. "You stay here and I'll be back as soon as I'm done"

"Why can't I come?" I shrug. "Because you needs to stay here with the kids. You don't wanna take them there and have to listen to that. Just stay here and I'll be back soon" he smiles and pecks my lips then leaves with Randy.

I'm really suprised Carley turned ouy to be a thef. She always seemed like such a nice person and I understand Michael wanted to be the one to fire Carley, especially if she got aggressive with Randy, but I'm still confused why neither of them told me about this yesterday.

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Michael's POV 

"You sure this is gonna work?" Randy ask as we're driving "It'll get her away from the hotel, but at least that's something for now"

"But won't she just come back?"

"I'll tell security to make sure she doesn't get back in and I'll take Leanne away for awhile and..."

"You weren't being serious about moving away were you?" He cuts me off. "I don't know, but right now I just need to get Carley away from Leanne"

"You want me to come in with you?" He asks and I shake my head. "She knows who you are and I don't wanna risk her making a scene. I'm just gonna act casual and fire her like I said and then I'm gonna take Leanne somewhere for awhile"

"How are you gonna convince Leanne to go away? You guys have just come back and she seems pretty determined to run the resturant and..."

"What else do you want me to do!?" I snap. "Maybe we should think this through a little more before we do anything"

"Well we could have thought more about it a little more if you hadn't started screaming and waking Leanne up"

"Your cat jumped up and clawed at my face!"

"Because you attacked him first!"

"I didn't attack..."

"I'm not getting into this right now" I cut him off. "I'll drop you off at the offices then I'll go to hotel and see Carley"

"I'm not sure about this" he mutters. "Well I can't just sit back and do nothing" I shrug. "Maybe we should call the police and let them handle it"

"And what exactly am I supposed to say? A woman my wife hired keeps turning up to work everyday?" I say sarcastically. "Obviously not" he rolls his eyes. "But you could just explain the situation and..."

"We can't do that" I shake my head. "Why not? Their trained for stuff like this"

"Because if we go to the police then they'll wanna talk to Leanne. Just try and relax"

"How can I relax when..."

"I'm not going to go over there and start flipping out" I cut him off. "I'm just gonna stick to pretending I don't know anything about her and fire her and that's all that I'm gonna do. We'll figure out the rest later, but let's just concentrate on getting Carley out of the building ok?" I say calmly and he nods.

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Carley's POV

It's almost lunch time and Leanne still hasn't came into work yet. I've been going to the restroom to check my phone to see if she is just in her office, but every time I've checked the  room has been empty.

After checking for the 5th time today, I go back into the kitchen. "Finally!" Jason says coming over to me. "What took you so long? We have to start preping for lunch"

"Sorry. I had to use the restroom... um... have you spoken to Leanne today?"

"No, Why?" He frowns confused. "It's just she said she'd be here to help me this morning is all" I shrug. "She's probably just caught up in something. She'll turn up eventually" he shrugs and walks away.

It was really weird that she just randomly decided to leave so early yesterday and didn't even come back to the kitchen to say goodbye or even let me know she was leaving and I'm really starting to worry about her.

I know Leanne is known for not always showing up to work and most likey she's just at home taking care of her children or something, but I still can't help but worry.

*
I'm finishing off the last of my prep work and Jason calls my name and I turn around and freeze when I see him standing next to Michael. "Hey. You must be Carely" he smiles at me through pursed lips and so nod nervously. "I'm Michael. I was just wondering if we could have a little chat in the office?"

"Um... about What?" I asks nervously. "It's fine. Your not in trouble don't worry. I just wanted to go over your contract with you real quick. It won't take long" he smiles and I nod confused and follow him out of the kitchen.

The whole walk to the office he doesn't say anything and seems in a pretty neutral mood and doesn't look even the slightest big angry or nervous and I'm starting to wonder if he actually knows who I am.

We get to the office and he let's me go in first then follows behind me and closes the door.

"I'm really sorry to do this, but I'm afraid we're going to have to let you go" he says. The second he closes the door. "What!?"

"I've been looking through our files and we just don't need the amount of staff in the kitchen so I'm gonna have to let you go"

"You can't do that!? I don't work for you. I work for Leanne and..."

"And I own this hotel and I'm saying I'm letting you go"

"I wanna speak to Leanne"

"She's busy and she agrees with me. I'm sorry but you have to leave... now"

"Fuck you! You can't just walk in here and start throwing you weight around. This is bullshit!" I snap. "Well your fired anyway... for that"

"I'm sorry I didn't mean that" I shake my head "Please don't do this. You don't understand how much this means to me" I plead "I'm sorry, but you have to leave" he says looking around the room and doing his best not to give me any eye contact.

"You know who I am don't you?" I frown and he nods, not saying anything. "Then why are you trying to keep me away from her?" I frown. "I'm sorry, but you have to go"

"Does she know?" I ask and he shakes his head. "She doesn't need to know. She's been through enough and..."

"And she needs her mother and her father and..."

"Her parents died along time ago and she has me looking out for her and she has..."

"You selfish little prick" I frown "excuse me?" He looks at me confused. "You don't give a fuck about Sofia. You just want her all to yourself"

"Her names Leanne and you have know idea how much I love her and she finally has her life back on track and we don't need you or anybody else coming along and.. "

"We?" I cut him off. "This isn't about you! This is about me and my daughter! The daughter that was stolen from me!"

"And I'm sorry about that. I really am, but..."

"No your not! If you were sorry then you would have told her the truth!"

"Then why didn't you tell her huh? You've been sneaking around here for months. What's stopped You!?" He snaps back. "Because unlike you I actually care about her feelings and I wanted to get to know her properly and spend time with her before..."

"Well you've spent time with her, so now you can go. I'm not doing this to hurt you I'm..."

"No! Your doing it for yourself! Because your a selfish fuck!"

"I'm not being selfish" he shakes his head and goes back to looking away from me. "Oh really? The only my reason she's with you in the first place is because she was kidnapped from me and then SOLD to you! If you really gave a shit about her then you'd let her go and let her come home. I'm sure if you ask him nicely your daddy will buy you a another wife and..."

"It wasn't like that" he frowns cutting me off. "He didn't buy her for me. He paid Mary so she'd let her go. I didn't force her to stay with me or marry me. She did that by choice"

"And what about her being with her real family? Doesn't she deserve a choice there?" I ask in a calmer voice and he doesn't say anything and I can see by his expression I've touched a nerve.
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Michael's POV

"If you can give her a choice to marry you and be with you then why won't you give her the choice to know who she really is?" Carley says and I don't answer her for a moment.

"It's not about choice. You don't know what this might do to her if she found out. You have no idea what's going on with her. All you've seen is some post Randy posted on some stupid site and that not half the stuff. She's traumatised enough and she doesn't deserve any of this"

"And I do? I deserved to have my new born baby taken away from me?"

"Of course you didn't and I'm truly sorry that happened to you, but I'm sorry. I can't risk you hurting her. She's not as strong as everybody thinks she is and..."

"I'm her mother" she cuts me off. "Please? Your a father. How would you feel if that had been your children stolen from you. Or what if you'd spent years looking for your daughter and to find out all the pain and suffering she went through and you couldn't be there to stop it. Please don't do this. Please don't take her away from me again" Carley pleads with me.

"I'm sorry" I mutter, looking away from her. I do feel awful for Carley I truly do, but everytime someone's came into Leanne's life it always ends up causes her pain and I can't risk that with Carley.

"What are you so afraid of? Sofia's my daughter and she has a father and brother at home who love her and just want the chance to be in her life. We won't try an push you out if that's what your afraid of? We can all talk to her together and tell her about.."

"It's not being pushed out that I'm afraid of" I mumble "Then What? What are you so scared about?" She looks at me confused. "Maybe it's best you leave now"

"Please don't do this" she croaks and I don't say anything and look away, trying not to cry.

"I'm sorry" I mumble and she nods. "There's something you should know before I leave" she says and I turn to look at her.

"If one YOUR babies was to ever go missing or be in danger... I'd walk the streets day and night until they was back safely with you" she says then walks out before I have a chance to reply.

I lean over the desk with my head in my hands trying to take in what's just happened and I hear yelling in the hallway.

"Who the fuck do you think your talking to!?" I hear Carley yell at Emma.

"Your sick you know that!?" Emma turns to me. "I don't what she's told you but..."

"You've got a beautiful wife that loves you and your in there  fucking that!?" She ponts at Carely "What the hell is wrong with you!?"

"What!? I was fucking anybody" I frown. "How many times we were just talking!" Carley yells at her. "Yeah right" she scoffs.

"It's true! I've never cheated on Leanne!" I frown. "Oh really?" She says with an attitude. "Really. We were just talking"

"Well if you two were just 'talking' in there, then why did Leanne just run out of here crying!?"