Freya started to sob on the other end causing my heart to clench. I could feel tears form in my eyes.

"We thought you were dead Alisha. You just stopped calling years ago. No trace. You even had mom and dad worried which is a shocker" Freya sobbed trying to laugh it off.

"I know and I'm sorry I really am but I was calling to see if we could all get together. Just the four of us" I struggle to talk without crying.

"When and where" I don't know why but after hearing this caused even more tears to fall. I was finally going to see my family and I had a choice to do so.

"Tonight at five?" I say wiping away my tears.

"Where are we meeting?" She says.

"I'll text you when I figure that part out"

"Ok sounds good. Now I have to let you go I gotta get back to work"

"I love you" I mutter smiling to myself.

"Love you too. See you later" Freya hangs up. I look over at Emilio. He was still talking to Lewis. I scoot over to Emilio's side. I lean my head on his shoulder. Emilio wraps his arm around my shoulder leaning his head on mine.

"I got to go take care of these files. See you guys" Lewis says before leaving.

"Can my siblings come here for dinner?" I ask.

"Yeah, they can. What do you want to have for dinner?"

"Can we grill some cheeseburgers out back?" I ask looking up at him.

"Yeah but we got to go to the store to get some buns meat and something to go on the side"

Nodding my head I pull Emilio's phone out. I text my sister the address to Emilio's house before getting up. I run upstairs and change into some clothes before waiting for Emilio to come down.

Once Emilio came down I dragged him to the car. I was excited about tonight. I wanted to be ready for them when they arrived in two hours.

"So what are your siblings' names?" Emilio asked, glancing at me before turning his gaze back to the road.

"Freya, Alayah, and Graysen" I answer happily. Emilio's eyebrows squished together.

"Pearson?" He asked, now it was my turn to squish my eyebrows together.

"Yeah, why?"

"They work for me"

"Really"

"Yep they joined my ga- company a few years ago and they've mentioned you a lot. I didn't put two and two together until you said their names" Emilio says. Don't think I didn't notice his slip up because I did. He has now confirmed my suspicion of him Being in a gang. Now with him saying they work for him means he must be the leader. The file Lewis got a file from him today which must have to do with this gang of his. Gosh, I should have been a detective. I swear I know I'm right about this. How could I not be? There are so many signs.

"Right your company" I mutter rolling my eyes.

"What's with the sass?" Emilio asked, glancing at me with slightly squinted eyes.

"What sass?" I look out the window as Emilio parks the car.

"You just rolled your eyes at me" I shrug my shoulders getting out of the car. Emilio walks over to me shaking his head. I grab his hand causing Emilio to look down at me. Ignoring his stare I continue to walk into Walmart.

Emilio and I grabbed the things we needed and hurried back to the house. The reason we had to hurry back to the house was that we were not the fastest in the store. Since I've only been to the store a few times since leaving Wilson I had to stop and look at all the new things I've never seen before.

When Emilio pulled up to his house, his parent's car was sitting in the driveway. Yay, my babies were home. I waited for Emilio to park before I jumped out of the car. I rush inside leaving the door open for Emilio. At least I left the door open for him so he didn't have to try and open it with all the bags I left him to carry. It's not like he would have let me carry any of them anyways. He always makes big deals out of tiny things.

Emory and Katalina were sitting on the ground in the middle of the living room surrounded by brand new toys.

"Momma look at the toys Nan and Pops gave us"Emory shouts running over to me. I gave her a smile looking at the new Barbie she was waving in my face once I bent down to her level.

"Yeah, I see all of it did you tell them thank you?" Emory nodded her head along with Katalina. Emilio walks through the door carrying all the bags in. I jump up when I see my siblings trailing behind him.

"Oh, my," Freya says running over to me. She almost knocked me to the ground with how fast she ran at me. Alayah and Graysen came running over as well. They all wrapped their arms around me hugging me tightly.

It took a few minutes before they let me go. I look over them and they've all changed since I last saw them. Graysen got taller and no longer had a mustache. He was more buff, most likely because of the gang. What? I'm not letting this go.

Now my sister's also had a lot more muscle and were thinner. Other than that they looked the same. Freya gave me a huge smile.

"Emilio we are gonna head out," Nora says before leaving after kissing Katalina's, Emory's, Emilio's and my cheek.

"We were worried about you, snuggle bug," Freya says, using the nickname from when we were kids.

"I know you were Frey and I would have called but I wasn't allowed" I give her a small smile.

"I'm just glad you're ok" Freya wraps her arms around me once again. Freya and I were the closest when we were younger which is why she is acting like this. She was practically my mother when we were growing up. She took care of all of us.

"Well, we are ok now so don't worry so much you're getting wrinkles" I laugh.

"Wait did you say we?" Graysen asked. How did they not see the girls in the living room making a mess?

"Yeah, I did. I would like for you guys to meet your nieces. Katalina and Emory" I moved to the side so they could see them better.

"What the fudge" Graysen's jaw dropped as he looked at the girls. Katalina looked up while poking her sister. Emory looked up, it only took her a few seconds before she was running towards her aunts and uncle.

There was never a time that I wasn't telling and showing the girls about my siblings. So they know what they look like. Emory is a social butterfly and has always wanted to meet them. Katalina, on the other hand, was more reserved and didn't want to socialize until she felt like she could trust them.

"Wanna see my new toys uncle Graysen?" Emory says, pulling on his pant leg.

"Yeah let's go" Graysen gives me one last look before going over to where the toys were.

"Come on you can come to," Emory says running back and grabbing my sisters. I smile as I watch them play together.

Arms wrap around my waist pulling me into a warm body. I turn my head seeing Emilio smiling down at me. I don't know when we started being all touchy-feely with each other but I don't want it to end.

"I'm gonna start making dinner," Emilio says, giving me a small peck on my cheek. I pout when he lets me go. I follow him as he walks into the kitchen.

"What are you doing?" he asked, stopping at the counter with the meat sitting out.

"I'm helping you make dinner" I push him out of the way. I step forward to the counter only to be stopped by Emilio. He held onto my waist holding me away from the counter.

"You don't need to help just go visit your family I got this" I pout at Emilio giving him my puppy eyes. If the girls get it to work on him then so can I, right?

"Fine go start the grill and then you can help cook the burgers," Emilio says, placing a small kiss on my shoulder. ***I go outside and start the grill before making my way inside. I was my hands before helping Emilio.

When the burgers were made we all headed outside. The twins ran over to their sandbox Emilio bought them. I put the burgers on the grill turning to my siblings who were already looking at me.

"So what exactly happened to you? Don't think I didn't notice those scars on your face." Graysen muttered. I cringe when he mentions my scars. Graysen was always observant. I couldn't get anything past him without him noticing.

Letting out a sigh I walk over to the table and they follow. Once they sit down I explain everything. They didn't interrupt. They let me speak and they listened intently.

"Why didn't you just ask us for help?" Freya asked. I look away from her.

"You guys were struggling on your own you didn't need me and my kids to put more pressure on you"

"You know that no matter what we are going through we will always be there for you," Alayah says. I let out a sigh.

"I know and that's why I didn't ask you for help. You guys have always been there and I couldn't see you guys struggling even more because of me"

"Foods done," Emilio says, taking the burgers off the grill. I didn't get to help him with dinner.

"Emory and Katalina lets get you cleaned up" I call out. They ran over to me smiling. I pick them both up.

"We made a really big hole," Kat says, stretching her arms out wide. I let out a small laugh knowing that the hole wasn't really that big. I could see it from here and it looked like the size of a pringle can.

"Wow that is a big hole," I say walking inside. I didn't get far into the house before Emilio took Kat from me. I give him a bright smile. We cleaned the girls up quickly before we joined my siblings at the table.