If A Tree Falls

Goodbye Charles Lawson

Anastasia
I am given a folded flag and watch as they lower my husband into the ground. It was a quiet service with just the military fanfare and in an isolated area that is behind secured gates. I visit the caretakers and they hug me and tell me they got the new security system set up for my next visit. I hand them a check for the next six months pay and expenses and get back to my new van that I traded Christian's in for after finding the trackers inside it. I keep burner phones now. His coverts and Paul's coverts have been driving me crazy. My security spotted them not long after I hired them after I learned that Kate Kavanagh was released on bail. I was told her parents had been in my  hospital room while I was comatose. Time to start living again and a future that I put on hold waiting for news of my husband. I have went through so much since he was listed as missing and they let me know. We were married on the base by the chaplain. I was given the marriage license with all the documents and sent it in to get the official seal. My safe deposit box holds everything. My savings and checking are joint with Charles's accounts. I have to show the death certificate to the banks. I plan on taking his name off the accounts and leaving it in my maiden name. My maiden name was always going to be used by me. I was never going to use Lawson as my last name.
Christian
Anastasia agreed to go out on a date with me. She disappeared for three weeks saying she needed time to think about things after all the trials and the law suits. She wants to work at Kavanagh Media, but her, Leila and Mia couldn't think of the name they wanted to use. Anything but Kavanagh. Paul and I have been waiting for her return, she traded in the van I gave her and got a new one, one without tracking devices. She somehow got past our security by using her new van. She was prepared and we had no idea that the guys we didn't know turned out to be her men watching ours watch her. She was a little paranoid after everything with the Kavanagh family. Ethan now owns his parents homes and he has control over their bank accounts. I plan on taking her to my club. We have learned more about each other, but she still has secrets that she doesn't talk about. Like the wedding cake top. She has not said anything about being married. We finally have dinner at my Club again. This time no Kate Kavanagh around to bother anyone. The name of Kavanagh was removed and the new name is G. S. W. Media, Grey Steele Williams Media. They chose their last names initials because it sounded better. I was asked to recommend some good people to help run it until the actual owners got up to speed. Anastasia was the only one who got up to speed. The other two not so much. But they were there when the work days started. They finally found a management team that worked out. Eamon had mostly men in upper management which didn't go down to well with the new owners. So they hired a new HR manager to oversee the old HR's hiring practices. She also had old applications gone through to see if Kavanagh was indeed violating some hiring practices and he was. It didn't surprise me at all. The whole upper management started earning their money again. They thought their jobs were safe because none of the new owners were not experienced. They were very mistaken and half were terminated gradually.
Anastasia
It has been a rough two years. Christian and I are inseparable and Mia and Leila both dated Paul, but only one could handle his personality. Leila is now mrs Firestone. Half the police force came to her wedding. It was a nice wedding. Leila is very funny and she used to be homeless. That is how she knew the police so well, they looked after big baby girl as they call her. Mia Grey was given a strong admonishment when she fell for of all people Ethan Kavanagh. There were arguments about this until they just eloped. Christian and I got married, but only after I told him about the top tier of wedding cake his cleaning staff mentioned to him. I told him about Charles Lawson my first husband and that he would be my last husband.
Christian
When Mia eloped with Ethan Kavanagh we were upset to say the least, but he had turned out to be very good to her and for her. He sold off the family properties and Elliott bought them and he flipped them after some expensive updates. Anastasia and I had a very small wedding. No one was there for her side of the wedding. Her neighbor had passed away and Anastasia had her buried in her family plot. She had no family other than Anastasia. She left everything in her will to Anastasia. We had no idea she owned the apartment complex. Anastasia had Elliott go in and check them out and see what they could do to help people like her and her neighbor. People who had no family. Elliott came up with something that created get together for the residences. It turned out to be very good for young and old people alike. The interview process was put in the hands of Leila.
Carrick
Ethan has turned out to be a good choice as a son in law. He became a psychiatrist and had came back to Seattle to set up his private practice. The trials somehow didn't surprise him at all. He left the state to get away from all three of them. He got rid of all their property. The bail money was returned. He had to prove himself in Seattle and finally he had to prove himself to me and Grace. They eloped before he proved who he was and sitting here with my grandson Carrick Kavanagh is a beginning. His practice is growing and he hired a few new people.
Grace
Things are going good we have two married sons and Elliott is getting married as well. I was happy to see Christian marry Anastasia. It was a small wedding. Jason walked her down the aisle, he had some connection to her father but we won't ever know what it was. Anastasia is six months pregnant and has taken GSW to international status on line and off line. Ethan has been nothing but loving to Mia and little Carrick. It is amazing how things turn out. Anastasia works hard in everything she does and all three of my children do as well. So I was surprised they had time to get pregnant. I was thrilled though. Adriana Devlin ran into Elliott at the trial and he saw her crying and consoled her, she had no idea he was Mia's brother. They started talking to each other and she moved in with him after everything. She only testified that she was paid off by the Kavanagh's after Kate injured her. So next month they are getting married. A lot of this started because of Kate's birthday party and her attack on Mia came out after Anastasia pressed charges against Kate. I just wished Mia hadn't been so frightened of the Kavanagh's now she is married to the good Kavanagh. I cuddle our first grand baby. It is amazing how lives change and families grow and have accepted someone they never thought they would.
Anastasia
We watch as our nephew coos at his grandparents. Ethan has proven himself very worthy of this family. He makes no apologies for his family because it would mean nothing. He told us he got out of there as soon as he was accepted to Georgetown. He left nothing behind not even his bedroom furniture when he left. He gave that to the Salvation Army.
Christian
After he left we heard nothing more about him. He took a moment and confided in me about Kate's attack on him. I had heard he was taken to the hospital after an accident at home. He opened his shirt and a long scar across his abdomen from where Kate got mad and slashed him with the knife she was using. Apparently she wanted him to set her up with Elliott and he refused. It was then he knew that he had to leave. They paid for everything and his college. He was given two million dollars to keep it quiet. It wasn't the first time it was just the most life threatening. So he sold his parent's property immediately after his name was dried on the deeds. Elliott was the perfect one to buy them.
Ethan
Mia was resistant at first then she changed her mind about me. I think she saw the scar across my abdomen and recalled when I had been in the hospital. So I told her everything I went through with Kate and my parents. We fell in love even though her parents didn't want me in their family we eloped and now we have little Carrick. They might have some residual doubts they treat our son great.
Mia
I watch as mom and dad love on little Carrick. I know eventually they will no longer have doubts about him.
Adriana
Elliott and I plan on getting married here in his parents backyard. Like Anastasia I don't have any family left. I still have the money Eamon gave me after I had my last surgery that gave me back my life and left me with tiny scars. Kate Kavanagh is insane. Whoever is in prison with her has no idea what they are up against.
Elliott
We will have one of those soon. I kiss her and we watch as little Carrick is handed to Christian and Anastasia. They will be having theirs sooner. What amazes me is that Mia, Adriana and Anastasia were victims of Kate and her parents, yet Ethan is family now. He is a good person how he came out unscathed by them was beyond me until I heard about the long scar from Kate attacking him after he refused to set her up with me. That alone puts him in my good graces.

Kate
I am being brought up on multiple murder charges after someone took my blankets and pillows. I got them back and they tried to get them back from me. Before they could stop me I killed three of my prison mates. Mom was killed that day by one of my enemies as revenge. I see where Elliott Grey tied the knot and with Adriana Devlin. Ethan married Mia and Christian married Anastasia. Big baby girl aka Leila Williams married Paul Firestone.
Eamon
I have been in here for a while, I keep my head low, but nothing can stop them from taking shots at me verbally or physically. I see the news of Enid's murder and then on the same day Kate has killed three prisoners. They think Enid was killed in retaliation for Kate killing the other prisoners. I can't take it anymore. My cheats starts hurting and I can't breathe. Let me be with my Enid and I fall head first into the brick wall.

Seattle Nooz
Kate Kavanagh has made the news again. She has been charged with killing three fellow prisoners. Her mother was killed in retaliation for Kate murdering the others. We also found out that Eamon Kavanagh died after collapsing and hitting his head against the concrete wall. Miss Kavanagh will be facing life sentences for each murder.
Ethan
I have to get my parents buried, Carrick helped me get them buried. They had life insurance policies the had paid in full. I put the money into burying them and a trust fund for Mia's and my children.
Kate
I was able to get free of the guards and they couldn't catch me. I knocked a woman out and switched clothes with her and grabbed her keys and purse. I walked out of the courthouse and as I reached the parking lot I heard freeze miss Kavanagh. I started running and I felt a bullet hit me and then another and then nothing.
Seattle Nooz
The body under the cover is that of Kate Kavanagh, she escaped after injuring a staff member of the court house during a restroom visit. We still don't know how she got free of her shackles. But she did. She was wearing the victims clothes and had her keys and purse as she started running after being told to freeze. She was shot twice once in the keg and once in her head. The police will be investigating how she got loose. She was pronounced dead at the scene a week after her parents deaths.
Ethan
I asked Carrick if he could please handle her burial, because I can't be at her funeral. He agreed to it. That night was a bad night for me. But seeing Mia pregnant with our second baby was a blessing. We have twin nephews Theodore Raymond and Christian Elliott Grey, Anastasia and Christian's babies. Elliott and Adriana gave birth to Adelaide Grace Grey. I might have had the worst sister and parents who allowed her to get away with such violent acts, I have found what good, kind, decent family is and that's what my children will have. We will not allow our children to get away with bad things. Mia and I have had long talks about this. I don't want buried in the Kavanagh plot. Mia told me that she wants me in the Grey family plot. So does the rest of the family. I hug both my wife and our son.
Leila
I found out something that I never knew when I gave birth to my twin daughters. Ella Lou and Lila Ann Firestone. Paul had an ancestry test done for some reason on all of us. Then he asked Anastasia to get a DNA test along with me. We look a lot a like. Our birthdays are within hours of each other. We are sisters and both our backgrounds are missing our pre ants names. Paul hadn't realized until he looked at some files that he was thinking about throwing away and spotted the same missing information on the backgrounds.
Anastasia
I get a call about having a DNA test to see if I could be related to Leila in some way. I agree to it and a few days later we are twin sister born on two different days hours apart. No parents information on the birth certificates at all. I just know Raymond Steele as my father. He adopted me, but who adopted Leila?