Violet Rose

6

It's been a busy few week's.

I was still working 'overtime' as Angela calls it. I found when I work from home, I'm able to get a lot more work done. I still do my morning routine, the only difference is Mrs Yong drops the boys off at day-care and picks them up. I know the boys could technically stay home with her here, but it's important that they socialise with other children their age.

I think Mrs Yong is also loving it here. After she drops the boys off, she has coffee with Luna and Athena when they aren't working. She's also discovered a Pilates studio downtown that she has joined. I did show her my home gym, but she likes the social aspect of the studio.

I was 10 when I first met Mrs Yong. My grandparents were given custody of me and they hired her to be my governess. I like to think she was the mother I never had, raising and loving me as if I was her own. I was 13 when I left New York to attend Stanford University. I was still a minor, obviously. So, Mrs Yong agreed to go with me. When I turned 18, my grandparents decided that Mrs Yong's services as my governess were no longer needed, and she moved back to New York. We still had our weekly phone calls.

When my grandparents died, she attended the funeral and didn't leave my side for the whole week, I was 19. She didn't like my grandparents, finding them extremely rude and only looking out for themselves. When my father had me out of wedlock, and to a girl from a lower class no less. They disowned him.

I didn't know I had grandparent until I was 9. I was under the care of the state (foster care) and my case worker at the time was able to find my grandparents. I had no other family. My father had disappeared when I was three and after seven years he was declared died. My mother had no family members to look after me and she was nowhere to be seen.

My case worker was somehow able to convince them to accept custody. I personal believe they only accepted because they had no hair to the family wealth, and business after my uncle died and he had no children. Owning one of the biggest and eldest hotel chains in the country, they wanted to keep it in the family.

I like to think they would be rolling over in their graves. Just like my father, I had a child outside of wedlock, will two technically. I was four months pregnant and five months out of college, when the father of my unborn children died in a car accident. After that, I decided to move to Los Angeles and sell 40% of the family Hotel business, still owning majority share. I wouldn't feel too guilty about selling, not after the way they treated others.

Mrs Yong offered to come with me to LA, but I wanted to experience this by myself. I did have her on facetime for all of my appointments through. We both agreed that closer to my due date, she would came stay and help me for a couple of weeks after they were born.

But the boys had other plans, coming two weeks early. I was on my way home after a meeting with the commissioner of the LAPD, when my water broke, and the contractions started. I had only been in Los Angeles for little under a month and when I got the phone call with the job offer.

After I graduated, I started working with the San Francisco Police Department as a Criminal and technical Analyst and when I resigned and moved, apparently the SFDP commissioner called the LAPD commissioner and highly recommended me.

It was also how I meet Athena and Angela. I was having a contraction when I drove through a yellow light. Athena pulled me over, but quickly recognised that I was in labour. She radioed dispatch for an ambulance but the closes one was 20 minutes away and on root to a heart attack. Angela was close by and heard dispatch. When she arrived her and Athena helped move me from the driver's seat to the back seat of my car. Angela got in the back with me, and Athena drive us to the Shaw Memorial with a police escort.