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quarantadue

Leo awoke from a nap with Rita by his side, scrolling through her tablet. Leo rubbed his eyes. "What time is it?" He asked.

"It's eight o'clock." Rita informed, politely putting her tablet away in order to give him her full attention.

"Where's Letha? Where's Layton?" He fired questions away as he sat up.

"Letha left a few hours ago, she came in here a few hours ago and you mumbled a weak goodbye so I assumed you were half asleep." Rita explained, moving onto the topic of Layton. "As for the little one, I'm not too sure about him."

"You know for a fact I'm not planning on calling his mother." Leo sat up next to her.

"I know." She put her hands over his. "I can help take care of him, I practically raised my little brother Gio."

Leo leant his head on her shoulder. "You don't have to do that..."

"It's fine, really." Rita insisted.

"Well, alright then." Leo eventually agreed. "Is there anything else worth knowing?"

"Ralphio called, it seems your grandfather wants to take care of the funeral- unless you want to get involved with it." Rita informed.

Leo sighed. "No, I trust his judgement."

"There were also some lawyers who left their number in order to work out your father's will." Rita informed. "I told them you'd call back when you felt like it."

Leo smiled faintly. "Not too aggressively, I hope." He paused after speaking that sentence. "Thanks for everything."

Rita sighed, wrapping her arm around Leo. "Don't worry about it." She said, planting a kiss on his forehead before also resting her head atop his.

Amara gently rocked Elio as she extended her other arm to check her watch. "Catalina's late, have any of you seen her today?" Amara asked Donatello and Elena who shrugged. "I thought our agreement would last longer than a few days..."

"Maybe she's caught in traffic." Elena casually suggested.

Donatello squinted as a worry crossed his mind. "You don't think something happened to her, do you?"

"I don't know." Elena gulped at the possibility. "Have you tried calling her?"

"I tried a few hours ago, she didn't answer." Amara informed them and upon doing so, began to worry as much as they did. "I'll try call her again."

"We should call Sebastian too, he had her run an errand for him today." Elena informed them, but upon seeing Donatello's expression of fearfulness, she called Sebastian herself.

Unlike Amara's bid to call Catalina, Elena's call was successful, Sebastian answered after a few rings. "Is something the matter?" He asked.

"When's the last time you heard from Catalina?" Elena questioned.

"I called her around eleven this morning." Sebastian answered, Elena repeated the information to Amara.

Amara shook her head. "That was before I called her."

"Why does that matter, what's going on?" Sebastian inquired.

"We think Catalina might be missing." Elena informed Sebastian of the situation.

"Have you tried locating her through the phone finding app?" Sebastian suggested. Upon hearing that they had not, Sebastian took it upon himself to locate Catalina's phone.
"Hey, Elena." He said in order to get her attention.

"Yeah?" Elena replied.

"It says here she's in a lake in Central Park." Sebastian said shakily to Elena, unsure if the information he'd given them was correct.