23. Family

They were there with her throughout the rest of the funeral. After the burial, people left one by one. Many offered their condolences to her.

After everyone left, she was standing with her family and Liam in front of her parents graves.

She couldn't hold back anymore. She fell to her knees and tears started flowing out. Even Mark started tearing up. Sara tried to console him while the other three men crouched down beside her.

They didn't ask her to stop because they knew that she had been bottling up all her emotions. They let her cry till she wanted. The brothers were hurt seeing their little princess cry while Liam was hurt seeing his girl… ahem.. future girlfriend cry.

They noticed the similarities between the grandfather and granddaughter. Both were bottling up their feelings and poured it out when they were alone.

Not only that but they resembled each other to. She had his eyes and skin tone.

After a while, they pulled themselves together. Lara told that she wanted to stay somewhere else because she couldn't stand going home and seeing things that would keep reminding her of her parents. She needed time. So they decided to go to their penthouse.

The two brothers didn't want to part with their baby sister even for a minute so they insisted on taking her in their car while Mark along with Liam and Sara came in another one.

Liam had joined them because Lara asked him to as she felt this was the least she could do for the man who flew to another country to be with her.

Lara was sitting in between the two brothers in the car. She was quite. She was extremely tired because of jet lag and not sleeping.

She closed her eyes and fell asleep. Her head feel on Tom's shoulder. He smiled and patted her head. He finally met his baby sister.

Tom was the older brother. Mike was burning with jealousy and glaring daggers at Tom seeing that his baby sis was resting her head on Tom's shoulder and not his.

He saw Tom smile proudly as though saying ' She chose me over you even when she was sleeping'. This made him all the more annoyed.

The driver had to put and emergency break because a bike suddenly crossed them. This made the jerk forward. They caught her before she hit her head and this time Mike made her rest her head on his shoulder.

They were going to scream at the driver and curse him for seven lifetimes in hell but shut their mouths because they realized that their little princess was sleeping.

Now it was Tom's turn to glare at Mike. Mike was grinning like a fool. He was happy that she was resting her head on his shoulder.

The driver who was watching all of this was speechless. First he sees a woman with them. Then they see her fighting for her attention even though she is asleep.

It showed something more than a romantic relationship, something familial. It was even more astonishing seeing them smile because both of them were nearly as cold and aloof as their grandpa.

In the other car, the journey was rather quite. Sara and Mark were both thinking about Liam. When they heard Lara say that he had flown from Country A to be with her, they sensed that there was something going on.

They saw tenderness in his eyes. They had already known that he was also like the men in their family, cold and aloof. But Lara didn't seem to realize it.

But anyways this was not something they wanted to worry about, Sara was extremely happy because now she had a daughter also in her family.

Even though her sister in law's, she would consider her as her own because the bond that the two of them shared were just like sisters. They shared everything with each other even before she got married to Luna's older brother.

They reached the hotel soon. Bot the brothers didn't have the heart to wake her up. She looked so peaceful after crying her heart out.

So they decided to carry her. But this brought forth another problem. Who will do the honours of carrying her?

They were glaring at each other. They started arguing in whispers because they didn't want to wake her.' I will carry her', said Tom.' No I will', Mike retorted.

' I am elder to you'.' That is not fair.'' Who made me the older one?', Tom said with a grin and carried her.

The others were surprised seeing that they weren't stepping out of the car. When they were about to enquire they saw Tom come out carrying Lara followed by Mike.

" Oh dear what happened to her?", Sara asked in a worried tone." Nothing mom. She just fell asleep", he replied. This put all three of their hearts at ease.

That's when they noticed the victorious smile on Tom's face as though he won a war and Mike pouting like a five year old whose lollipop was taken by his older brother.

" Mommy look at this, brother is not letting me carry my baby sister. He says he is older so he should. This is so mean.", he said making a very sad and dejected face.

" Pfft" , the three of them almost burst out laughing. But they immediately shut up when they saw a glare from Tom saying ' Shut up or you will wake my princess'.

Then they started walking towards the entrance.