Faith

Chapter 33

They pulled up to a café and once everyone ordered, well Owen ordered for her, they caught her constantly looking at her bandaged arm and smiling softly. Their food arrived and everyone ate in silence. They kept looking at her and smiling.

"So Princess, since you say you love us, does this mean you want to start our relationship again?" Victor decided to be the one to ask for everyone.

She looked down at her arm and sighed softly. "I want to, but I don't know if I can. The press and public will tear me apart and if they find out about Angel, I just don't know if I have the strength to. I'm sorry."

"We have actually talked about that Darling," Owen said as he pushed his plate away since he was done.

"Blackbourne," Axel said watching something in the distance. The tone sent a bad shiver down Lynn's spine. She started to turn but the grip from Nathan's hand made her sit still.

"Get her home," Owen said standing. He pulled out his phone and started making a call while heading to find the manager of the place. "We will finish this later Darling." She started to open her mouth but the look on his face made her quickly shut it. She nodded and hid her face in North's chest as they left out the back of the café.

"How will Owen get home?" She asked as Raven drove them to the house.

"I will go back and pick him up," Sean said patting her leg. She nodded and laid her head on his shoulder. "Don't worry Pookie, he will be okay."

"It was paparazzi wasn't it?" she asked.

"Yes," Axel said truthfully. "Blackbourne is making sure that the café presses charges for everything they can since the café thrives on privacy for their customers and he is finding a way to get their pictures to make sure they do not get released."

"Oh," she said nervously.

"Don't worry he won't let you be found and released to the public Babe," Brandon said and she nodded.

"Are we ever going to be able to go out without this happening?" She asked scared.

"Yes sometimes," Luke said. "We know of a few places that work extremely hard to make sure their customers have the privacy they seek and that place is one of them. Other times we admit it will be hard but if that is what you want them that is what we will do. We don't go out that much anyway because we are always out for press releases. It has been nice to be home for a bit."

"Oh," She said softly. "I'm sorry you're having to do this."
"Don't be, Sweetie," Corey said, "Mr. B would have done this anyway, like Axel said the café hates when the press does that since they have paid good money to ensure the privacy of its customers. The owner actually gets a kick out of suing the paparazzi any chance he gets."

"If you say so," she says yawning.

"Take a nap Peanut," Nathan said wrapping his arm around her. "I will wake you once Mr. B gets home."

"Thank you Honey," She whispered cuddling up against him some more and slowly drifting off to sleep feeling protected and safe.

"How is she?" She slowly woke to Owen asked about her.

"Owen," She whimpered and held her arms out. His Irish Spring scent encompassed her as his arms picked her up from Nathan's lap.

"How are you feeling Darling?" Owen asked and she cuddled into him even more.

"I'm okay," She said truthfully. "I know you will protect me."

"Yes we will," Owen said as he rubbed her back. "They have already been dealt with and the pictures have been destroyed. Now are you awake enough so we can finish our discussion from earlier?"

She sat up and nodded. "I'm awake."

"Good," Sean smiled softly at her. "We have something to tell you."

"We know we want to be back with you like we once were but we also know you don't want to be in the public and we have figured out a way to do that," Owen said and she looked at him in confusion. "Mr. Morgan and Mr. Henshaw will be able to create an alias for you so you will be able to work on your crafts and sell them while remaining private that way you have your own income. We also have a present for you."

Gabe left the room then came back. He had two small boxes in his hands. He handed her both of them. She looked at the guys then down at the boxes.

"What is going on?" She asked scared.

"Open them Cupcake," Luke smiled at her. She opened one to find a ring with a heart cage and the other with fourteen men's rings. The heart cage ring had stones of each of the men's favorite colors and the men's rings had their favorite colored stones plus her favorite color stone in the middle.

She gasped, "They are so beautiful."

"We know you aren't ready for marriage so this is a promise ring to show our commitment to you. We have decided to wear the rings when we are here but when it is time to go do movies we will wear the rings on a necklace so that the paparazzi will not know about them but we will still have them with us," Axel explained as Owen took the heart ring from her and slipped it onto her ring finger on her left hand.

"Thank you," She whispered as a tear slipped free. She got up and kissed each one of them softly on their lips. "I have something for you too, but we have to go to the bank by Angel. It's where my safety deposit box is."

"Let's go," Luke beamed as he pulled her out the door with the rest of them following.