35.2 Katerina

"She's not a slut" Alex hissed, I could practically hear him restraining himself from lashing out and hurting Angelo for insulting Valentina.

"Of course she is, Alexander, just like that fiancée of yours." groaning was heard a moment later.

"Call Katrina or my mother a slut again and I swear to the high heavens that you will regret it. You killed her because she was going to fight you and your wife for my custody didn't you?" Alex snarled as coughing came soon after before Angelo cleared his throat.

"Of course we did. Why else do you think you never found out the truth until now? You weren't supposed to know the truth. Your birth was supposed to stay in the shadows forever, why else do you think we never mentioned it to you? Or to your siblings? Valentina was supposed to stay in the past much like your father." I could hear the smirk in Angelo's voice, "You were nothing but a burden to us from the very beginning, Alexander, why else do you think we never gave you any affection while growing up? Why do you think Ella, Vanessa, and John always did? They are our flesh and blood while you were nothing but a mistake."

"That's enough," Ella said as she paused the recording cutting Angelo's next words off.

"Do you still think they're saints" Alex questioned though it was more of a statement than a question making the three siblings look away from Alex, "Angelo and Margaret took everything from me from day one and all I am trying to do is get justice for my parents whose only crime was to love each other and me. And I will not rest until they are in jail for the rest of their lives. And if you wish to never speak to me again because of this then I won't stop you, but know this, you will always be my siblings despite everything that has happened. We are all victims here, not just me."

"You're right," Vanessa said making Alex look at her with surprise, "They're not saints and they deserve to face the consequences."

"Nessa, what are you saying? They're our parents, god sake" Ella said.

"No, Ella, Nessa is right. They lied to us our entire lives and not only that but they killed our sister, you heard him confess to it, Ella. He said himself that he and Mom killed Valentina because she wanted to take Alex back" John said, "As much as I love them, I can't forgive them for what they did and they deserve to face the consequences."

"They're our parents, Johnathan, you can't possibly believe they did this to her!" Ella yelled standing up and looking at her brother and sister in despair, "they're everything but killers and I will prove you all wrong."

She made her way to leave but Alex grabbed her and pulled her into his arms making her struggle to free herself but it was useless because a moment later she was breaking down in his arms saying that her parents weren't killers but deep down she knew that they were because she didn't want to believe it. She didn't want to believe that the people that she had looked up to her entire life were capable of taking the life of another human and on top of that to take a baby from his mother.

"Shh," Alex whispered as he held her, Vanessa and John soon joined them while I sat back letting them deal with this together as a family.

"They're not murderers," Ella whimpered as she held onto Alex for dear life and I swallowed the lump in my throat as I heard the youngest Storm child breaking apart in my fiancee's arms.

"It's okay, it's going to be okay," Alex whispered as he kissed the top of her head.

"We will be okay, Ella," John added rubbing her back.

"And we will get through this together, as a family," Nessa said looking at me and holding her hand towards me making me blink in surprise but stood up and laid a hand on Alex's back letting him know I was here and that what Vanessa said was true, we will get through this together as a family.