Guards immediately start to file into the office blocking any doors and windows, Gray's arms lock around me as the room instantly becomes packed as the shouting continues. I look back at Gray very worried who places a kiss on my shoulder, I think this was him telling me I was going to be okay.
"That is absolutely correct my love, no harm is going to come to you, I promise" he mind-links hearing my thoughts, I take hold of one of his arms that were still tightly wrapped around me.
A few silent minutes in the room pass, the shouting got louder for a second but than stopped abruptly. But the thing that stood out to me was it didn't sound like a man, to me it sounded like a woman. In my mind I was trying to match the voice to someone I knew, but I couldn't place the voice with anyone. This would mean either Rupert has a very girly voice or, it's not Rupert at all and he hasn't found us.
"Sir, it isn't Rupert who infiltrated the safe house, it was a woman" the guards starts to explain, yes I knew it was a woman "this woman claims she is your mother sir, she is refusing to leave" the guard continues, I immediately take a look up at Gray who looked way beyond angry.
"She is putting my mates life in danger by remaining here, I demand you take her out any means possible" Gray says which makes the guard nod and begin to walk out, something told me I needed to step in at this point.
"No stop" I say pointing at the guard who freezes on the spot "Gray, she's your mum, for years you've mourned the lose of her, but you have a chance to talk to her and let her explain herself, you can't turn her away" I tell him looking him the eyes as I spoke, he shakes his head about to give the guard orders but I do before he could.
"Take the woman into one of the meeting rooms in the house, keep one guard in the room with her and one out until the King can have a meeting with her" I tell the guard who nods, I quickly place my hand over Gray's mouth as the guard fully leaves the room.
The rest of the guards leave, even Josh and Erik excuse themselves to leave Gray and I to talk. It was now down to me to try and convince him to speak to his mother, something I know is going to be hard. I went to get off his lap but he holds me down, I turn back to look at his face where he kind of looks annoyed.
"I told you I did not want to speak with my mother" he says his eyes now moving to look at me, I give him a look telling him with my eyes to stop looking at me like that.
"You couldn't even talk about your mother without getting extremely upset, you would have given anything to have a little conversation with her, but now she's under the same roof as you and you're able to have that conversation, you're turning it down" I say knowing what I was doing was the correct thing "I know you, better than you know yourself, so I know in reality you really do wanna go down that hall and talk with your mum, but you're hurt, you're hurt because she's allowed you to mourn her death for over ten years when really, she's been safe and well all along" I start to tell him, he looks to the ground indicating to me that what I was saying was right, I put my finger under his chin lifting his face up to look at me.
"That is a perfectly justified feeling, I don't believe that those hurt feelings will go away until you speak to her, you don't have to make amends and invite her on a, what to do posh people do for fun? Um......have afternoon tea on your largest yacht" I say which causes him to laugh a little "but, you should still have a conversation with her, be selfish and do it not for her but for you, maybe this will finally bring you closer to get some kind of closure to the traumatic childhood you have to endure" I say placing my arm around his neck, I really hope he's not angry at me for letting her stay.
"I could never be angry at you my love, now I am going to be selfish but I am not doing it for me, I am doing it for you as I know you are just looking out for me and if you believe this will help me, I trust you" he smiles looking up at me, I place a kiss on his nose before fully wrapping my arms around his neck in a hug.
Around half an hour later I was following Gray to the meeting room, at first I thought I would wait outside while he spoke with her. But he told me he didn't know if he'll be able to control his anger if I wasn't there, so I made the expert decision to go along with him! Not that I had much choice. I tried to read Gray's emotions as we went but I couldn't, I didn't know whether he was nervous, angry or sad. I only have to assume he's feeling all those emotions, this conversation with his mother he's probably gone over hundreds of times in the past not believing he actually would get the chance. I'm just glad I can be his support system through this, as Kyle was for me growing up after leaving our parents. I know I keep looping back and talking about my parents, our experiences are drastically different but at the same time not that different. We both went without parents for years in our lives and when we did have them, they weren't the best to us and treated us like we wasn't really there. Granted Gray's father was an evil man nothing like mine, but I can't help but see some similarities.
We come to a stop outside the door of one of the meetings rooms, as I asked a guard was stood outside the door with his hands by his sides. I take a look up at Gray giving his hand a little squeeze as the guard begins to open the door, once we could see inside I spot a woman standing in the middle of the room, her face just holding shock as she looks over.
"Mother"