24. It's me Fault

MEGAN'S POV

My mother was crying like never before, not even when my father died did she cry so much. In the background I could also hear Alison crying and I know Hugo wasn't doing much better than any of us, but he was holding it for Alison. 

"Come on, beauty, don't do this to us... Fabio, pass me the tube." I wasn't understanding anything about what was happening, the only thing in my head was I had been the culprit of Alexandra's death, and I'm not sure I can deal with that for the rest of my life. 

Diego began to put the tube through my sister mouth and pushing it down, really, I have no idea what he's doing, but it's not I cared too much at this moment. 

"Come on, beauty, this could always do with you... oh, I like that better." Quickly, he started to pull the tube out of Alexandra's mouth, and it doesn't take long for Alexandra to turn around and start spewing water from her mouth and coughing like crazy, but at least she wasn't dead and that's what mattered to me. 

My mother started laughing and out of the corner of my eye I could see how Hugo shed a couple of tears. Alison wanted to run to her mother, but he was holding her until Alexandra stopped coughing and was able to sit up. As soon as she reached her, she hugged her, and Alexandra soon returned it to her and calmed her down so she would stop crying. 

When she looked up and raised her arm in my direction, I didn't hesitate to go to her side and hug her. I also couldn't help but cry. As soon as I got to her side, she hugged me and I was there for a long time until Diego took her to check that she was okay. 

My mother came next to me and hugged me for a while until I decided it was better to be alone for a while, I didn't want to bother anyone and, in the background, I heard my mother saying it wasn't my fault what had happened with Alexandra, but she was more than wrong about that, because if we hadn't listened to her, we wouldn't have been scared like we did, much less would she be as she is now. 

ALEXANDRA'S POV

At this moment I was in Hugo's room with Diego checking on me to make sure everything was okay. Hugo was standing at the door looking at me with a worried face, but I also know he was calmer than he should have been a couple of minutes ago. 

"Does something hurt, beauty?" Diego asked for the thousandth time in the last five minutes "The throat, but it's normal." I said with a shrug, "A little, usually happens when you swallow too much salt water like you did." He said and I nodded because I already knew better than anyone "I don't think I want to know the reason why you know." He whispered, "You're right, you don't want to know." I answered. 

"Well, I would tell you not to talk too much for a couple of days at least. It may also be it hurts from the tube I had to put down your throat." He said getting up "Then it's for two." I said, "What did I just say sweetie?" he asked raising one of his eyebrows "Sorry." 

"Look, better why don't you write instead of talking." He said and I denied, because I wasn't going to do it, I had worse sore throats than this "I don't like the idea." 

"I know, but in that case, we won't scare Alison or your sister any more than they are right now hearing your voice." I knew Alison wouldn't be scared by my voice, and Megan wouldn't be scared because she'd heard me with my worst voice, but what I'm sure of is she would blame herself and that's what I needed right now." I said rolling my eyes "Not for your daughter, but I think it will be for your sister, could you at least do her that favour" he asked, and I nodded even though I wasn't going to. 

"Well, for the rest everything is fine. You should rest for a while at least." He said and I denied, because I had more important things to do "I have more things to do." I said, "You always have more things to do, but rest, even for a couple of hours, that's all I ask of you." 

"Okay, one hour, no more." I answered despite not having the intention of doing so, at least at this moment "I said a couple..." he started, but I denied "And I'll tell you one." 

"As you wish, me and Fabio are going to pick up Dimitri's things and throw them away so you can go rest in that room." He said and I denied, because I wouldn't even go to sleep in that degenerate's room, let alone go to someone to go to sleep there "I'm not going to go to that room for the hell of it." 

"Well, I'll change myself so you can have a room to yourself." He said and I turned to Hugo who was in the corner of the cabin looking in our direction "Hugo, do you have a problem with me staying here?" 

"No, of course not, but do as you feel more comfortable." He said shrugging his shoulders, and even though I noticed that he wasn't well, at this moment I had to focus on getting Diego out of here and to stop saying stupid things "If Hugo doesn't have a problem with me staying here, neither do I." I said "Okay, whatever you want, but we're still going to get things out of there and see if we find anything interesting." 

"Good idea." I said turning my attention to Hugo again "Hugo, I hope she hears you more at least. Anything weird you notice you call me immediately, okay?" He nodded and Diego left, but not before looking at me one last time. The moment he left, Hugo came over to me, sat next to me and I could see how some tears escaped him, so I hugged him. 

"I was afraid of losing you Alexandra." He whispered and I denied "But I'm fine." I said, and it was true, despite my little sore throat, I was fine "I should have done what Megan did." He started, but I denied "You couldn't, you were grabbed by Diego, he wasn't going to let you go after Dimitri." 

"But that's why I almost lost you." He said looking directly at me "You wouldn't lose me, ever. Also, now I have reasons to fight and stay here." I said with a small smile "Which reason?" he asked "I have my family, and I have you. I'm not going to let you go, Hugo. I love you too much to let that happen." 

"And I love you so much I can't allow anything to happen to you." I gave him a little kiss and let our foreheads meet "Nothing will happen to me, really." I assured, because it was true, "I'll take care of that myself." He said convinced and I denied, because even though I appreciated he cared and wanted to do whatever it took for me to be okay, I didn't need it "It won't be necessary, really." 

"I hope. Why don't you lie down for a while and rest?" He said wiping the tears from his face and I denied, because I had to find Alison, but especially Megan "I can't, I want to make sure both Alison and Megan are okay." 

"You really should rest first." He protested, but I denied, because I didn't have to do it right now "I'll do it later." I said to calm him down "Do you promise me?" he asked. "You'll be with me if that's what you want." I said to convince him "So I can make sure you rest." 

"Well whatever, but can you go with Alison while I go talk to my sister?" I asked for. Even though I wanted to reassure my daughter she was okay, I had to first make sure Megan was okay and get the stupid thoughts out of her head. "I thought you wanted to make sure Alison was okay." 

"And I will, but I know how Megan's mind works in situations like this and I don't want her to go to a dark place in her mind." I said getting out of bed "Okay, I'll make sure when you come to us, she's happy and less worried." I gave him a little thank you kiss, because I appreciated what he did for Alison. " I love you, Alexandra." He said and I couldn't hide my smile "I love you, Hugo." 

We kissed and went out on deck. I could see my mother was with Alison at the helm, so Hugo went there while I went aft, because it was the only place where nobody was around and you could quickly get lost in your thoughts, which is often the case in this moment Megan was not supposed to do. I know full well you feel guilty about what happened an hour ago, and you don't. I want to make sure she's okay. 

When I went up the stairs, I could see her sitting with her back to the ocean and her eyes closed, so she wouldn't see me coming, but I'm pretty sure she would hear me. "You should be resting right now." She said wiping away her tears, but I denied, "I would be doing it if I wasn't worried about you." I said sitting next to her and waiting for her response "You don't have to, I'm fine." 

"Come on Megan, we've known each other for a long time... you're my sister, I know you're anything but fine." I said, "Because of me you almost died, isn't enough for you?" she whispered, and I shook my head, because I knew she would end up coming to that conclusion "It wasn't your fault, I told you to do it." I knew that at this moment it was going to be difficult to convince her it wasn't her fault, but I had to find a way not to blame herself. "And I shouldn't have listened to you. I should have listened to that bastard when he told me if I killed him, he would kill you." 

"Am I dead?" I asked seriously "No, but..." I denied, because that's the only answer I needed her to have clear "But nothing Megan. You did what I told you to do. He was out of his mind, and I wasn't going to let him hurt anyone else." 

"So, you're not mad I killed your uncle?" she asked with evident hope in her eyes, and if it were in another situation, I would be upset by the stupidity of what she had said, what's more, a small part of my anger at what had happened to me in there, had gone "I don't give a damn. Fuck, you killed him, it doesn't mean because he was my uncle, I was going to love him, not after all he did to me." 

"But we were left without the one who told us all of Stefan's movements." She said as if it was the most important thing, but I denied it, because it wasn't important at all, or at least for me "Didn't we start like this? We figured out a lot of things on our own. Besides, Stefan would start looking for his brother, maybe one day he'll get to some beach in Europe, and he'll know before we died, we killed him." 

"He will go to our supposed grave and kill us again." She said with a small smile as if it were the funniest thing in the world "No, he wanted his brother dead. He will thank us very much." I said with a shrug, "Wow... and here I thought they were inseparable." She said and I laughed, because that's what it had seemed like to me at some point in there "Apparently Dimitri got soft over time, it didn't work for Stefan." 

"What love of brothers… and they were of blood. If they were brothers like us, they would have killed each other sooner." She denied with a small smile, but that wasn't funny, I wouldn't be able to do something like that to Megan and I know she wouldn't either "But that won't happen to us. I love you too much to kill you. I would kill myself first." 

"Same here. The question is, shouldn't you be resting?" she asked turning to focus all her attention on me "I should, but first I had to make sure you were okay." I said shrugging my shoulders "And how is Hugo?" she asked, and I sighed, because that was another thing, I had to convincing him everything was fine and I am okay "Scared, he blames himself because he wasn't the one who did it." 

"I would be delighted to do it again, and Diego was putting up with him, it's impossible to escape from him." She said and I nodded, because I knew "I know, that's what I told him, but I think it hasn't changed much." 

"That boy loves you too much." A big smile appeared on her face making mine appear a small one "I know, and it can be said I love him too." I said, "And you who thought you couldn't love in life, look at yourself now, loving that man more than anything." 

"I guess I had to find someone to show me it's possible despite everything we went through in there." I said, because I still didn't quite understand how he was with me "And he's the right one. I will have time to have a good time with my brother-in-law." Her smile told me she was going to take advantage of Hugo's fear of her. "What are you thinking of doing?" I asked, "Nothing bad, maybe he told me I scared him a little, and is a great invitation to play for a while and distract myself." 

"Don't scare him more, do me a favour." I asked her and she nodded "I won't, I promise." She said and I thanked her, because I didn't want him breaking up with me because of her "I will, now go rest before Diego finds out you're not doing it." She said with a laugh, "As much as I don't like the idea of her ignoring me, believe me, I learned my lesson long ago she does what she wants when she wants." 

We both turned in the direction Diego was coming, denying, but with a smile on his face, making it clear to me he wasn't angry or upset. What's more, at this point, he had to know I wouldn't be still until I had finished doing everything "If, when I'm worse, I do what I want, don't think that something I'm used to is going to stop me. Better tell me what you wanted." 

"Dimitri left a letter for you." He said and we both frowned "You mean for Alexandra." Megan snorted. "No, I mean you. With the letter addressed to you two" he said, "I don't want to read anything he left me. I don't give a shit about that guy." I said with my anger rising "It may be important. According to Fabio, at the moment, Dimitri did that to you because he was in a psychotic break or something like that, the truth is, I have no idea what he said." 

"I don't care exactly, I don't want to see anything that has to do with him, period." I repeated, and it was true, because of that guy I almost drowned and Alison saw how he was suffocating me, it made me even more angry "Ale, it's not bad, but Diego is right, there could be something important." Megan said, but I wasn't going to open it "Then open it yourself, it also has your name." 

"Alright." Diego passed her the envelope, and it didn't take long for her to read it. I could see how her face was changing to amazement and then to not understanding anything, which made me curious, but that was not why I was going to take it, much less read it. "What does it say?" I asked "He's sorry and there's someone who can help us with his brother. According to him, he has been after his brother for a long time." 

I turned in her is direction, because even though there are probably a lot of people who are, I don't understand how Dimitri knew. "Who?" I asked curiously "Apparently a brother of his." 

This really surprised me. One more Skolov brother? I wasn't liking this one bit "What? Another brother?" I asked confused "It seems so. Did you know anything about another brother?" Megan asked, looking up from the letter and I denied, because I had no idea "I had no idea, but if he's their brother he must not be as good as he makes him out to be." 

"If what the letter says is true, we can trust him. Apparently, his parents and his brother kicked them out of the house the moment they found out they were involved in a mafia. They hate those things apparently. He says his brother is a Russian agent, just like Hugo was." She said and she was getting more and more confused "From the DEA?" I asked astonished "It seems in Russia they have an organism of those too. Do you think we are going to be able to trust that guy?" 

"I don't know, and I'm not going to risk it with Skolov again." I said getting up from the ground and leaning on the rail thinking what the hell we would do now with this new information "So what will we do?" she asked getting up "What we have always done. When we get to land, we'll have to investigate this guy and if he's legit." 

"I like the idea. We go back to the old days." She said with a big smile, "We must not lose practice." I said handing it back "Now that you know what you are going to do, Alexandra, why don't you do me the favour of going to rest?" Diego said and I couldn't help but roll my eyes "I'll be in a bit, first I have to go see Alison and my mother." 

"Your mother and daughter are fine, go rest." He started, but I refused, because that was the next most important thing after getting those thoughts out of Megan's head. "I'll go as soon as I make sure they're okay." I said starting to walk towards the stairs "Sometimes I can't stand your stubbornness." 

"Get used to it, because you're going to have to put up with me for a long time." I said, turning slightly, and now it was Diego's turn to roll his eyes, "I won't have any choice." Megan laughed and I went to where everyone else was, and I stayed for about half an hour because both Alison and my mother insisted that I go and rest. Hugo came with me to make sure I would rest, so when we got into the cabin, he made me go lie down on the bed. 

"You're going to go?" I asked him and he denied with a small smile on his face "I'm not going to leave you, love. I have to make sure you rest." He said and my smile increased in size "Thank you, Hugo." 

"Why?" he asked confused for a moment "For everything. Can we get in the water later?" I asked and it seems to have surprised him "You don't have to." He said calmly, but I denied, because I wanted to do it "But I want to." 

"I thought after what happened a while ago you wouldn't want to…" he started, but I denied it again "I can't let that stop me from doing something I like. It will cost me, I won't deny it, but I want to enjoy the beach again as I did when I was little." 

"Then we'll do that, but after you rest like you should have been doing for a while." He said giving me a kiss on the temple "I couldn't let Megan inside her head with that kind of thought. It wasn't her fault." I shrugged. "You're a great person, love, as much as it's hard for you to believe it." 

"I'm trying." I said, because I didn't consider myself a good person, at least not at all "Well, your attempt is working, now you better sleep for a while." He kissed me again and I settled in his arms. "Will you be there when I wake up?" I asked and I could see how he nodded "In the same place where I am now. I won't leave your side love, I assure you." 

"Thank you I love you." I said giving him a little kiss on the arm "I love you too." He kissed me and after that, I practically fell asleep. I loved this man more than I could love anyone else and I hoped I wouldn't lose him. 

HUGO'S POV

Alexandra had fallen asleep a while ago and after talking to her about how I felt guilty, she may be right I couldn't have done anything because Diego wouldn't let me, but in some way, I could have done something, no matter how little were. 

I couldn't stop thinking about what had happened for a couple of hours with Alexandra. I was lying there staring at the ceiling and running my hand through her hair, it seemed to calm her down somehow. 

"You should stop torturing yourself about what happened a while ago." I stopped looking at the ceiling to see Alexandra with her eyes open looking at me, I don't even know when she woke up. "When did you wake up?" I asked trying to recover from the little scare as well "Not long ago, but I don't like to see how you don't stop thinking about what happened before. I'm fine and Dimitri won't be able to touch a single hair of mine in my life." 

"That's the only thing calms me down." I said, and it was true. I still couldn't understand how she had been so calm having him at home "I'm going to be fine. It may take me a couple of days to fully get my voice back, but otherwise I'll be fine." 

"It's hard not to worry about you. Above all, if we consider we have been together for a short time, and we haven't experienced anything together as a couple. It scares me to think if something happened to you, we would have done almost nothing." I said thinking about everything we would have missed "Don't think about it, nothing has happened to me. I'm fine and although it may not seem like it, in the short time you have been with us at home, you have done many things for me like no one who has come close to me in my life other than my family." 

"I like to think that." A smile appeared on my face, because since I was ten years old, it was my mother and me, I liked big families, and now with Alexandra's, I had it and I appreciated so much "Well, you've made it, and I'm happy by your side. We may be on a ship in the middle of nowhere right now, but you still bend over backwards to make me feel okay, I realize, and for it I love you." 

"I don't think it will take too long to get wherever we're going. We are a couple of days from the American coast. The question is, how will we get into the country?" I asked her, trying to figure out what her plan was. "Luke's working on it. By the time we are on the coast we will have our passports." 

At that moment, we heard a slight knock on the door, and we stared at it for a couple of seconds, because it's rare for them to come here, especially knowing Alexandra must be resting. 

"Come in." As soon as the door opened, I see Luke with papers in his hands, enter the room and carefully close the door. "Shit, I hope I didn't wake you up Alexandra." Luke started to apologize, but Alexandra stopped him before "You haven't, don't worry. Better tell me what those papers are." 

"Passport, I want to make sure you agree with what are in them and our story." He said closing the door behind him and Alexandra sat on the bed "Better why don't you tell me how things are, and we'll finish sooner." 

"Now, Analissa, she will still be your mother, but her name will be Roselin Nelson. She was widowed a couple of years ago from her husband John. Your mother Hugo will be called Jackelin Rose Gray and the same, her husband died years ago of a heart attack. Diego will only change his name to André. Fabio will be Leonardo Edwards and will be Diego's cousin. You, Megan, Jennifer and I will be siblings. Alison will be called Aurora, it's what she wanted, and she will be your daughter. Hugo, you will be Jacob, and you will be Alexandra's husband." As soon as I heard that, I straightened up in the chair I had sat in hours ago trying to understand what he had just said "What?" Alexandra asked and I turned to her to see she was surprised and something else I couldn't say. 

"If it bothers you, I can change it, but I think it's the best to at least cover you, Alexandra. The Russians think that you are not capable of having a man by your side." He said and she slowly nodded, but not letting it be known what she was really thinking "No, I don't have a problem with it. It just caught me by surprise." She said after a while "Love, if you have a problem, I'm sure Luke can change it." Luke nodded. The only thing I didn't want was for her to be upset there, from the little she had told me, it wasn't going to be too easy to be there by herself "I don't have a problem, really." She assured. 

"So, if you don't have a problem with it, they're done. From what your mother said, it is most likely that we will reach the American coast tomorrow." He said looking at something on his computer "Wait, before you go, what is my name, Megan's and Jennifer's?" Alexandra asked, and I turned my attention back to Luke. "Oh, I almost forgot. Jennifer will be Camila, Megan will be Christina, and you will be Tessa." 

"Did you give me an Italian name?" she asked surprised, and Luke nodded "Yeah, your sister told me you love Italy, so you won't miss Italy so much while we're gone, I've named you Italian." I could see something similar on Alexandra's face, and I could almost tell some tears had come to her eyes, but I'm not sure about it because after a blink they weren't "Thank you Luke." 

"You're welcome, now I better go." With that, he walked out of the room leaving us alone. I could tell Alexandra was thinking about something, and thinking about it too much, so I got up a bit making her look at me. "If you don't want us to pass as husband and wife, I would understand, love." I started, but she denied with a big smile on her face "It's not that, it's just didn't expect him to give that idea." 

"So, are you sure you don't mind?" I asked to make sure "I don't mind, really." She assured once again "At least, yes, I would have liked it if I had proposed it to you instead of having some papers say so." I said denying, but with a smile on my face "Are you seriously thinking about getting married?" she asked surprised once again "I always liked the idea of getting married, but I had to have someone to do it with." I said shrugging. 

"And you want to do it with me?" she asked in a practically whisper "I want to do everything with you, love. But I also know it will take us a while to get to that point." It was clear to me we had just started to be a couple, and I know with everything that happened, she wasn't going to accept it so quickly and I was fine with it, I could wait all the time in the world "Doesn't it bother you to have to wait to make your dream come true? she asked and I denied "I don't mind." 

"Why?" she asked in a small voice "Because I'm with the woman of my dreams, that's why." I assured her "I don't know what I did to deserve a man like you by my side." I wasn't at all clear if I should have listened to that, but I had listened to it and if I didn't like something, it was Alexandra belittled herself. "I would have to ask myself that, because you are a wonderful woman, Alexandra." I said getting up from the chair to sit next to her on the bed. 

"I doubt it, but do you think we could try getting into the water now?" she asked "If that's what you want, of course, we can do it. I'll wait for you outside." I said and she nodded "Thank you." 

"I love you, my queen." I kissed her on the temple and then she grabbed my shirt and made me bend down again, giving me a kiss, I accepted "I love you too, love." She said as we parted for fresh air. 

After looking at her for a couple of seconds, I left the cabin to go to the deck where the others were. Megan and Diego were playing with Alison and my mom and Analissa were at the helm, so I headed for the boat platform. I took off my shirt, my shoes, left the shorts I had on, and sat on the platform waiting for Alexandra, until I decided it was better to get into the water. I swam for a couple of minutes until I feel a presence behind me. 

"No matter what you told Alexandra, it worked." Megan said somewhere behind me, and I turned to look at her. "Did I tell her about what?" I asked without understanding what she meant "About the therapy, whatever you told her, it worked." 

"I don't know what you're talking about, Megan." I said, because it was true, I hadn't said anything to really convince her "Just so you know first, I want to say my sister agreed to go to therapy, and I'm completely sure I have you to thank for that." 

"You don't have to thank me for anything. I only did you a favour, what's more, I don't think she's going for any of the things I told her." Even though I don't think it had anything to do with what I told him, I knew she wasn't going to accept it any other way, so I let her thank me. "Well, I'm completely sure if it was for you, for I come to thank you for that." 

"You don't have to, really." I said and she denied "But I do, it's how my parents raised me." She answered shrugging her shoulders "Well, you're welcome, but you know I'm delighted to do it." Megan nodded "I know, now you better tell me why you're shirtless and with your legs in the water." She asked after I climbed back up to talk to her "I'm waiting for Alexandra to get into the water." 

"Alexandra? Get into the water? I've never seen her apart from before when she jumped in to help you. Also, she hates cold, so we're probably going to Los Angeles." She said denying, but with a smile "Yes, I noticed she's not a big fan of cold." I said laughing, "I can assure you, she's not, but still, she's going to get into the water, especially if we take considered what happened before." 

"I am going to get in because it is something I loved as a child, and yes, what happened before may make it more difficult for me to get in, but that is not why I am going to let the water scare me. I have been with that fear for many years now and I'm not going to let that happen." We both turned in the direction Alexandra's voice was coming from, and the truth is, it was hard for me to look away from her. 

She was wearing a bikini that looked great on her, unless I know she doesn't like people staring at her, I would stare at her for the rest of my life. Before she left, I could see the smile on Megan's face, and I honestly have no idea what she meant by it, but I'm pretty sure that smile was directed at me. 

Alexandra started walking again and sat on the platform while I got into the water. I could see Alexandra's eyes, so I turned around and I could see in them she was scared, and it was the last thing I wanted, so I went to her and took her hand. 

"Love, if you want, we can do it another time." I said, trying not to force her into something she wasn't entirely convinced about, "But I want to get it over with now." She said with a little pout on her face, "I know, but you don't have to push yourself like this. We have all the time in the world so you can get involved." 

"I know, but like I said, I don't want what happened to me in there to take away from the things I liked to do." She said convinced, and she knew she wasn't going to change her mind "I understand. What do you think if we start with you putting your legs in water?" 

"You're going to go?" she asked, and I denied, because I wouldn't even dead. "I'm not going to move from your side if that's what you want." She nodded and I leaned on the platform. We stood there for a while, me holding her hand and running my thumb over it to keep her calm, and it seemed to work. After being like this for a while, she ended up putting her legs in the water slowly. 

"That's it love, you're doing great." I said glad she managed to get her legs in by herself "I would love to feel the sand under my feet." She said and I knew what she meant "So as soon as we get to Los Angeles, we have a date, love." 

"Date?" she asked, turning to focus her gaze on me. "Do you mind if I take you on a date?" I asked her "Are you planning to go outside?" She was frowning, and I know she probably wouldn't like the idea of leaving the house while Stefan was a threat or because of the risk of having too many people around. "Yeah, but don't worry, there won't be anyone." I assured taking her hand "I would like to, but I don't want to take the bodyguards with me. I don't like that feeling." 

"Okay, there will be no bodyguards, it will just be you and me. How about that?" I asked and a smile appeared on her face "I like the idea, where shall we go?" she asked curiously and slowly moving her legs "Surprise love." I answered and she frowned "Hugo, you know I hate surprises." 

"It's not what Alison says." I said with a smile, because Alison always said Alexandra loved surprises "Because it's what she believes. I don't like breaking her illusions, I couldn't, even if I wanted to." She said sighing "Well, this will be a surprise that I hope you like." 

"I don't doubt I like it, but I don't like it's a surprise." She whispered "Love, do you trust me?" Alexandra nodded and I took her hand and kissed her knuckles "Then trust me on this one too." I said, "That's not playing fair Hugo." She said pouting "Maybe not, but don't worry, I'm pretty sure you'll love it." 

"I'll hold on if you promise it'll be the last surprise you ever do to me." She said and I know she was serious. I had to find out why she didn't like surprises "I promise." I told her "Okay then, but for the record, it's the last one." She said pointing at me "Thank you, I love you, my queen." 

"I love you, Hugo." She said giving me a kiss and we spent the rest of the afternoon in the water, eventually joined by Alison and Megan. Analissa was watching from the table as her daughters and granddaughter were enjoying the water, and you could see she was excited, I don't know if to see Alexandra in the water or for once in probably their lives, calm and enjoying their lives.