Belonging to the Iceman

The Iceman and Frenchy

Paula hugged Kimi tightly.

"Oh, my baby!" She cooed, much to the amusement of Rami, Shantelle, Justus and Tiitus.

"MUM!" Kimi growled embarrassed.

Paula ignored Kimi's growl and planted a very wet and loud kiss on his cheek.

"Oooh, how sweet!" Rami taunted, to which Kimi broke away from their Mother and play tackled his big brother, much to the delight of the boys but not to Irma, Paula and Shantelle.

Paula pulled her son's fiancée into a tight hug.

"We've been waiting for you Shantelle, to come and join our family!" She said with a smile bigger and brighter than anything.

Shantelle smiled and hugged Paula again.

"So you must tell me when are you and Kimi planning on getting married? And I hope it's here in Espoo!" Paula asked, excitedly.

The smile disappeared from Shantelle's face "not yet, that's for sure" She said.

"Is my son not good enough?" Paula snapped, jumping to extreme conclusions, shocking Shantelle completely.

Kimi had heard while wrestling with Rami and putting his hand in his brother's face, he stopped immediately.

"Mum, Nicolas won't sign the divorce papers. Shantelle is still legally his wife!" Kimi said.

"Well, why won't he?" She asked

"Oh Mum, don't get him started!" Rami exclaimed.
"Because he just won't Mum!" Kimi growled to Rami's surprise.

Shantelle rubbed his arm and said, "it's okay, he will sign it..."

"And what if I want him to have already signed it?" Kimi turned on his Fiancée "Shantelle Alissa...you have no...IDEA how badly I want you as my wife! I want you to walk down the aisle of the Espoo Cathedral to me standing at the altar and I want to marry you! And that French toad knows that is what I want more. Than. ANYTHING! And while he refuses to sign his divorce papers, he knows I can't marry you! AND THAT IS WHAT HE WANTS!"

She watched him storm out of the house and soon the sound of a snowmobile starting up.

"Well, I don't know who this 'French Toad' is..." Paula said, "But when I meet up with him he wished he'd never met me!"

"What about Kimi?" Shantelle asked, watching her Iceman get smaller and smaller as he weaved through the trees.

"He'll come home when he's ready, I know where he's going...he's going to the cemetery to visit his Father Matti," Paula said.

Shantelle spent the afternoon getting to know Paula, they talked for hours.

"This Nicolas seemed like he just wanted you to make Kimi jealous, Shantelle" Paula finally said as they enjoyed coffee and chocolate cake she had baked that morning.

"I think he did love me deep down," Shantelle said, stirring her coffee.

"From what Kimi has told me, I think you are kidding yourself, my Shantelle, he left you to miscarriage and almost lose your life! What? Just because he drove for Ferrari that makes it okay?" Paula told her, trying not to get worked up.

Shantelle was speechless, she didn't want to admit it but deep down she knew Paula was right.

Suddenly she burst into tears for her baby that didn't get a chance to even live.

"I killed my own baby, I couldn't even protect it from everything that happened!" She sobbed, feeling helpless.

Paula hugged her and said softly "you didn't Shantelle, you were trapped in a failed, miserable marriage, your husband only cared about impressing Ferrari and delivering race wins to them, he neglected you! And he should get a taste of his own medicine for what he did to you! Now if you still think that he still loves you...then by now you would have had your baby and you and Nicolas would still be happily married in Paris! BUT where are you? You're in Espoo because my son thinks the absolute world of you! And he just wants to marry you and grow old with you! He loves you Shantelle! He gave up his life here in the snow to prove himself in the Australian Outback and now my baby is the Head Stockman of an Australian Cattle Station!"

Shantelle went to bed early, she was tired and still upset, however, at about eight o'clock she was woken by her mobile ringing.

"Hello?" She murmured, still half asleep. She didn't even realise that Kimi had crawled in beside her and was snuggled up to her.

"Oh, Shantelle dear did I wake you?" Came Anne Marie's soft voice.

"Yes, but it's okay Anne Marie" Shantelle said.

"How are you, my dear?" She asked "I hear Nicolas won't sign the divorce papers"

"Not as yet no, I was hoping he would have signed them before they were sent to me, I want to move on with my life and settle down with Kimi and I can't do that if he won't let me go!" Shantelle answered.

"He still loves you and believes that you will come back to him, he's trying to make it seem like Delphine is you when deep down he knows she never will be, he's keeping up this big façade, with Ferrari and Alain has no idea how, he's keeping everyone happy, while still chipping away at getting the ultimate prize....getting you back!"

"Anne Marie, with all due respect if your son goes near my Kulta again I will put him into a coma without a touch of remorse and mark my words, he WILL sign those papers, even if he has to hit rock bottom, oh he will sign them!" Kimi said suddenly.

"I thought you were asleep!" Shantelle said

"I was dozing," Kimi said in reply.

"Shantelle, Kimi, this is a battle that you and only you can fight and win, Alain and I must stay out of it!" Anne Marie said sadly
"If we could we would sign the papers ourselves but you are not divorcing us, you are divorcing our son"

"Then hint to your son that signing them would be wise, before Shantelle and I leave Finland we will stop over in Paris and have another attempt at getting these papers signed peacefully, all we want is his signature," Kimi said.

"Oui and Nicolas knows that his signature will make him lose Shantelle for good!" Anne Marie said.

After spending a few days in Espoo, Kimi and Shantelle boarded a flight to Paris.

"What's your plan?" She asked as they headed up to the front door of the home she once lived in "you want to beat the shit out of him if he refuses?"

He grunted and rang the doorbell "only if it comes to that Kulta! Stick close! I don't trust him as far as I could throw him!"

A dishevelled and hung-over Nico answered the door.

"Well, Mon amour, you finally came back home where you belong!" he said flinging open the screen door, puckering his lips up and closing his eyes. "Come and give Papa a great big kiss!!"

Kimi was in between the driver and his Kulta in a split second "you kiss me and I'm gonna knock you flyin' Frenchy!" He snarled "now get a pen lead me to a table and sign these fucking divorce papers!"

Nico's eyes snapped open seeing the enraged Stockman standing in front of Shantelle.

"lemme think about that you cold bastard...ah....NOPE!" and he slammed the front door in Kimi's face, as he tried to barge his way into the house

"Shit!" Kimi snarled "for fuck's sake!"

Shantelle gave him a look and said "we may have to bring your lawyer into this Kimi. You hit him and he will sue you!"

Kim grunted "if I hit him I will most likely kill him! stupid wanker!"

"Let me guess what you are going to say, Lucas..." Shantelle said, "you still don't like that French toad!"

Lucas winked "you got it!"

"So how long did it take and what did it take for Nicolas to sign those divorce papers?" Elysia asked

"It took longer than we thought my granddaughter," Shantelle said

"And it took rock bottom, to make Nicolas see that he needed to let Shantelle go!" Kimi added.