Chasing Cambridge

Stonehaven - Part One

Cambridge's P.O.V.
I land in Bear Valley at two o'clock in the morning and head straight for the inn. I call Blakey, Remi, Kenz, and Ashley so they won't freak the fuck out. Cause I know the second one of the guys says I went AWOL they will but they will know I'm safe and just need to get away. Since I'm in New York I'll probably meet up with Remi a couple times since she's up here for a shoot. The rest of my girls are spread out doing their own thing. Kenzi promised to tell our brothers where I've gone so they won't call "search and rescue!"

The thing is I've never actually been to Bear Valley or Stonehaven. Nick was super cryptic when talking about his home in Bear Valley. I'm sure he doesn't want to have me living there so I've already scheduled to look at a home in Bear Valley so I can have a home near him. Hopefully I'll get it. My appointment is first thing in the morning then I'll go for a visit. I haven't exactly told Nick I was coming. I mean we talk every weekend and he knows what has been happening but this wasn't something I told him mostly because it just kind of happened. I leave my bags at the foot of the bed I'm too tired to change so I just lay down and crash.

I wake up a couple hours later feeling gross and decide to shower. Then I realize I never ate but I don't like eating so I just lay back down and fall asleep again. I wake up to the sound of my phone buzzing. It's Shawn he's called three times but I just ignore it. I have missed texts from him and Nash who doesn't fully know of Nicks existence Hayes does but that's only because he was there when Nick contacted me then again when we met in person. But I made Hayes swear not to tell Nash. As protective as Hayes is Nash can get really bad and really quite jealous. Then Kenzi and the girls found out but they swore not to tell the guys. So they are probably just going to tell them I went to New York on a last minute shopping trip to get my head clear. I love them to pieces.

I remember the day Nick contacted me. I was at lunch with Hayes talking about a trip the two of us were about to take when I get a call from a number I didn't know. Curiosity got the best of me. Nick told me he was looking for a Lily Bevelaqua and that he was her son that had disappeared twenty seven years prior. I had no idea my mom had a kid before so I told him exactly that. He begged to meet me so I agreed. Hayes told me either I tell Nash or he goes with me for "safety" yeah my baby brother my protector. He's so adorable sometimes.

I got curious and went to my family home left to me by my parents. I've got a lot of real-estate but everything left to me has been completely paid off. I don't know how but they all had been. I found a box I remember seeing my mom open on only a couple occasions during the year. It was small and filled with photographs. I sat on the floor with tears flooding my face as I flipped through picture after picture of my mom young and beautiful pregnant, with a young infant, a handsome man. The pictures seemed endless. Some of them had little blurbs on the back. "Nicholas and Antonio," "Nicholas and Lily," "our little family," etc. this man he really was my brother I wonder why mom never said anything? Would she have told me had she not died? Did dad know? I had so many questions but then I came across a news article, "Father and Son Disappear, Mom Left Shocked and Worried!" That's when it hit me. Mom thought they had died.

Three days later I met my brother and had to sadly inform him that mom had died in a car accident when I was eight. I broke down sitting across from him realizing it had been nine years that very day. Hayes held me in his arms as I cried. My thirteen year old brother held me as I cried which made me feel so pathetic. But I completely lost control when I looked in Nick's pain filled eyes. All he wanted was to find his mother just to find out like me he was an orphan. After that day we stayed in contact. He promised to call every weekend if he could so two to three days a week I spoke to my brother and got to know him. When he came to North Carolina he would stay in my parents home and I would spend the night in my old room. But now the tables have turned I'm where he grew up and terrified he'll see it as an ambush.