Lost Little Red.

16

I don't know how long I had slept for but when I woke up I was in the back of an suv. I slowly sat up feeling a little lightheaded from the sudden change of scenery. Vitaly naturally was sitting next to me and ran a hand down the back of my hair.

"Take it easy love, you slept for quite some time."

I rubbed my eyes and sat up straighter looking out the window at the passing trees. It must be cool outside because the windows were foggy and the heat was blasting into the backseat.

"Where are we?"

"Canada...don't worry everyone is behind us. Carmen and Cato have Gator."

I sighed in relief. Gator had been spending time with Cato and I was more than happy about it. Knowing he was safe with them made me feel at ease a bit.

"Why are we in Canada Vitaly?"

He sighed and rubbed his hand over his face. "I have some old connections here who I think can help us out. I won't continue to run from this prick. I just need to make sure you and the baby will be safe."

I simply nodded my head and continued looking out the window. There was no arguing with him right now and frankly I didn't have it in me to do so. A short while later we arrived at a fairly large cabin tucked in the woods.

I went to open my door but Vitaly places his hand on my arm stopping me.

"This is an old connection of my mother's. She is nothing like she was, very kind and sweet but blunt. Please don't take anything she says personally."

I rolled my eyes and pulled my arm from his grasp. That only meant one thing to me and that was she was going to hate me. The doors to the other SUV's opened and the others began to file out.

Evie staying as far from Nikolai as she could get and Cato being dragged by Gator. Nikita came next to me and laced her arm with mine.

"I take it he already explained about Claris then?"

I nodded my head, she gave a little laugh and began to drag me toward the door.

"Don't worry Scar she isn't so bad. It's been a long time since that happened anyway."

I stopped dead in my tracks and yanked her back to me. "Since what happened?"

"Fucking Vitaly....our mother and Claris has been trying to set Vitaly up with Claris daughter Claire since they were kids. He never took the bait so Claris has been bitter ever since. Claire still tries to weasel her way in when she she's him."

Of fucking course she does

"Try not to stress though it's bad for my niece."

I cocked a brow and she smiled. "Niece huh? And how do you know it's a girl?"

"Oh just a hunch I've got...cmon"

I let her drag me to the front door where everyone had been standing waiting for us. I glared at Vitaly a little pissed he hadn't told me this in the car.

A woman in her mid 60's opened the door and smiled warmly at the siblings. Her face weathered and her dark hair greying. She gave you the sweet old lady vibe but I could tell she was anything but.

"Oh my loves look at the three of you. So strong and all grown up. Come hug my neck yes?"

After a hug from each she widened the door and ushered us all inside. "Come in come in you'll freeze out there."

She looked everyone over as we walked in smiling warmly at Cato and Carmen and lingering on me, well mostly on my growing stomach.

"Please take a seat dears, is just rush into the kitchen and put on a pot of tea."