Eva's Pov
Jane's pretty annoyed by her cousin and I have to face it as well because she's here a lot too. Her and Rafael are doing so well in her words. Being pregnant and annoyed does not mix. I am very close to snapping. To avoid snapping I stay at Louis' place most of the time working on the nursery at his place. He still won't let me do anything.
In other news I'm now 6 months pregnant and Louis and I got a cupcake from the baker. This cupcake holds wether or not we are having a boy or a girl. The cupcake was said to arrive by the end of the week.
I am back at Jane's house working a little bit with Jane while Catalina wasn't there while keeping my attention on Mateo.
"So your mother's coded bank account number links to this convent in Italy." Michael says
"A convent?" Rafael repeats a little confused
"I take it she wasn't religious." Michael says
"Well we never went to church." Rafael says as he comes to sit beside me handing me a cup of tea.
"The convent's in Orvieto." Michael says
"That's where my mother was born." Rafael says
"She's been paying them ten grand a month since 1984. Any idea what those payments might be about?" Michael asks
"I have no idea. I hardly knew her." Rafael says "but monthly payments... that sounds like." Michael finishes Rafael's sentence
"A bribe." He says
"Or blackmail" I add
"So what now?" Rafael asks
"We wait to see what the Italian authorities dig up on those crooked nuns." Michael says
"All nuns aren't crooked. Seriously you can't assume that all nuns are evil." Jane says waving around a knife and I lean back into Rafael.
"Watch it with the knife." Michael says as Rafael let's go of me and Jane walks away Rafael getting up after her to see Mateo
"All we know right now is someone in the convent deposited those checks. Finding out who is like a needle in an Italian haystack, for now." Michael says
"So while we're on the subject of Catholic stuff, I was wondering if I could take Mateo Sunday mornings." Jane says
"Every Sunday?" Rafael asks
"Yeah, I want to start bringing him to church." Jane says
"No. No, he's too young." Rafael argues with her they argue back and forth about about this before Michael interrupted siding with Rafael. I sided with Jane. I went to church around Mateo's age and I'm glad I did.
That Sunday we all went to church and Mateo was fussing a bit. Rafael rubbing it in Jane's face that he was too young. Rafael takes Mateo out of the room when. After that he texted me telling us to meet him outside.
"Rafael what's wrong?" I ask when we come out
"I had this weird memory. I think my mother did take me to a church once." Rafael says
"What did you remember?" Michael asks
"Just being there. Hearing church bells. My mother taking my hand." Rafael says
"We'll keep thinking about it. Anything you remember could help." Michael says and now I'm creeped out by church.
The next day I wake up to go meet Louis downstairs for breakfast when I can hear someone in Rafael's room. Catalina. Jane told me she left. She keeps telling me all these weird remedies for pregnancy that are making me want to throw up.
The next day Rafael took us to a storage room belonging to his father and a painting was reported stolen fro the convent. Rafael seemed panicked when we mentioned the police he went on to explain that when his dad died he found out about mystery cash going in and out of the Maracay group part of him knew the art might be stolen but he didn't want to ruin his father's legacy. He also didn't want me involved with this considering it was illegal and he covered it up.
With everything going around with all the church stuff I completely forgot about the cupcake. The cupcake arrived at night at Louis' house and I bit into the cupcake. As soon as I did we hugged. I would have been happy either way.
The next day Rafael told me that his father had made a deal with the nun and his mother found out. She continued to pay the church to do her a favour. The nun also handed him a letter.
He showed me the letter it was a birth certificate. Rafael's birth certificate. He was born in Italy around the time Elena lost a baby. She bribed the nuns and they brought him over to her. He's not a Solano. He looked like he had made peace with it. I still stayed with it
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Opulent ~Rafael Solano
FanfictionWhere she fell first but he fell harder Where after a bunch of twists and years and children they finally confess Rafael Solano x oc s1-s5 I do not own any of the characters other than the ones not mentioned in the show.
