She had worn Elizabeth's clothes inorder to fool the guards standing outside her door. The plan worked and right now she was on her way to Men's Central Jail.

Within no time, she was standing outside the place where Marcus was being kept wondering if it was a good idea to even step foot in there. Was she even ready to face him? It was too late now, to back down.

"Name?"

The sheriff asked and she answered Marcus Pierce. I'm here to see Marcus Pierce.

It was a good thing he didn't ask who she was because she had no clue how to answer the question. She was his wife or atleast she thought she was his wife.

The sheriff got out a bunch of keys opening the metallic door for her. The door creaked open and there was a certain silence that creeped her out. She followed the Sheriff walking behind him meekly. There were all kinds of people in there, one of the guys in there had a tooth, another was missing an eye, another had a scar on his face that looked like either he was burnt by hot iron or cut by a knife.

She didn't like the place at all. It was like a literal hell hole. Rats squealing and at the same time not visible to the human eye. There was even dried blood past the cell she had passed by. When the Sheriff stopped, she also stopped turning her head to the cell infront of her.

There he was, with a bruised lip looking so unlike him. They had beat him up for sure and although she didn't want to admit it. Roman must have played a role in it.

"Looks like you got another visitor, old friend. It's your lucky day huh", The Sheriff mocked evilly.

"Ten minutes",he added before walking down the hallway.

"Ruby",Marcus muttered and Mikaella bit her bottom lip in anger.

"Don't call me that! I'm not Ruby Grayson! I'm not your wife!" She shouted.

"I-i'm sorry. Sorry you had to find out this way. Trust me-I-

"Trust? Trust you, Marcus?! You of all people shouldn't be asking me to trust you. I-for all these years, I trusted you! Y-you kidnapped me from my family-

"I know you are mad but I did not kidnap you, Mick. I-I did what was necessary. I saved your life, I wasn't just going to let you die!"

"So I should thank you? I should thank you for saving my life? For taking away from my son? I had a son, Marc. A little boy who needed me! My family needed me!"

"I'm sorry, Mick. I really am. You and Kylie mean the world to me. I did everything to keep our family together because I love you both. I love you, Mikaella"

"You don't get to talk about love, Marcus. Love isn't lying to your partner for eight years just so you could feel content with your life! Love isn't separating a mother from a child. Don't you dare use Kylie to justify what you did! Everything clicks now. Why you didn't want me to go to New York! Why you lied to me that Kylie was sick after I told you I met Kevin Cervantes. That's right, Kylie told me that she wasn't sick. How could I have been so stupid. To believe in your lies! To love you!"

"I might have lied about where you came from but I didn't lie about my feelings about my feelings for you. I love you and our daughter, Mick"

"That's why I'm here.You lied about everything, you might have lied about Kylie too. Marc, look me straight in the eyes and tell me whether or not, Kylie is your daughter"

"Kylie is the most precious thing to me-

"Answer the God damn question, Marc!"

"She's not my daughter but I love her like my own. You are mad, taking it all on me but please don't keep my daughter away from me. I've lost you, I know I have but I can't lose her too"

Her eyes widened in surprise and with an angry growl she declared,

"I never want to see you near me or my daughter again, Marcus. You are dead to us"

"Don't do this, Mikaella. D_don't do this. I've lost everything but don't-don't take her away from me-"

She walked away, ignoring his words, ignoring how affected she was by everything. God, she wanted to end it all. She hated how bad she felt for telling him that he would never see Kylie again. Immediately she was out of the station, she took a cab and when the driver asked her where she was going she had no clue where to go so instead she told the driver to just drive.

'He lost his wife and his unborn child to the accident'

She recalled Elizabeth's words. She was angry at him, she wanted to take revenge on him, send him to prison where he would spend his days locked away but the love she had for him overpowered that. Like a naive person, she felt pity.

Marcus lost his family a long time ago and he was going to Mikaella and Kylie again. She couldn't do that to him again and so she made up her mind.

"Take a left here",she told the driver.

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"I know everything, Roman. You lied to me too, didn't you? Marcus did what he did because of what you and your brother did. You took away his family and he took away yours, that makes it even. I might not sound like the old me but I want everything to be over. You might be Kylie's father but the man behind bars is who Kylie has known as his dad for all these years. Believe it or not, I'm doing this for my daughter. I don't want her growing up thinking that Marcus is a bad person"

"And I'm doing this for my family. I don't want to lose you and our daughter again"

"You'll not. If you drop the charges, I'll willingly come back to you. And we could be like we were before"

"Fine. I'll make the necessary calls and he'll be out by tomorrow morning", Roman said.

"Thanks",she muttered clutching her purse and getting out of his house lying that one of the men Roman had assigned to her had taken her to see Marcus and taken her to his home afterwards.

The ride back to the condo was nothing short of stressful. Well atleast she had placed everything back to how they were. Marcus would be a free man and she would go back to her real husband try to reconnect with her son while she was at it.

"Why do you call him Knuckles?"

Seth's voice was the first she heard the moment she got home.

"Because daddy won him for me after beating a guy at the carnival who was cheating"

Mikaella cleared her throat and Seth stood up in a flash.

"Um-Liz had things to do so I offered to take care of Kyls" he said awkwardly.

Kyls. He already had a nickname for his sister, that gave her atleast some hope that he was opening up to the idea of them being family.

"Do you want to stay for dinner? I can whip up something real quick", Mikaella offered.

"No. I probably should be heading home. My dad's waiting for me",and he took his jacket off the couch leaving the house.

"Mom, can we keep him?" Kylie asked and Mikaella smiled.

That's why she was doing all this, so that she could keep his son. So that she could be close to her son.