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"Forgive me, my little star."

"Umm what does this mean, Mr. Lucifer?" Ivy frowns asking him. She doesn't know why she is continuously feeling that sinking feeling in the depth of her stomach.

Lucifer was ready to say everything, tell her the truth when suddenly Alessio barged inside the room.

"Dad!" Startled, Ivy glances back at Alessio's face with a worried expression on her face.

"We are under attack." Abruptly, Lucifer pulls his emotionless walls up and retreats his hand away from Ivy's gentle hold.

"Take her to the safe room." Ivy watches with a scared and worried look as he pulls his gun out and without a word rushes out of the room.

"C'mon Ivy." Alessio tugs her out of the room by her wrist.

"Would others be ok?"

"Yes!" He replies stoically.

Ivy couldn't think clear when Alessio slams the door shut of a hidden room. The room was huge, filled with every necessity. There are guns and knives too.

She sits down on the couch while unconsciously fidgeting with her necklace. Few minutes later, there's a huge crash on the door. It makes her only to grip the necklace harder.

Suddenly the door rips open in pieces. Her heart drops in her stomach.

"Told you that I will find you." There stood in front of her the same man from that day with a lunatic grin covering his face.

"I will take you out from here, right under your father's nose." He takes a step forward and Ivy takes a step back on the instinct.

Family?

Ivy's eyes widened when suddenly blood starts to roll down his chin. His eyes turns teary. Her legs wobbles as her gaze fell down at the bloody knife that was sticking out from his chest.

"You won't!"

Ivy looks at Lucifer who is standing behind him as the guy's body dropped dead on the ground within the next moment.

His clothes are splattered with someone's blood and he still has this emotionless look planted on his face. Suddenly everything starts to make sense in Ivy's mind.

From the same necklace she is wearing that Elena was also wearing in the photos. The reason why her eyes looks identical like Lucifer and she share other facial features with Valentino and his brothers.

"Why?" A small word makes Lucifer's barrier of emotions to fall down. Ivy sees as a tear rolled down his face.

Lucifer thought maybe she will yell at him, scream at him, worst hit him or runaway from him but his heart skips a beat when she lunges towards him and throws herself at his chest, with her trembling arms wrapped around his waist.

Her shoulders shakes with each loud sob she takes. He was surprised for a moment but then he wraps his arms around her fragile form. He hugs her back with more tears leaking from his eyes.

"P-papa." His heart bursts with an unknown emotion when she called him that.

"D-don't le-leave me a-again p-please." It was hard to form these words due to her heavy crying.

After few moments, she pulls away and look up at his face as he looks down. At the same moment, they both moves their hands to wipe each others tears.

Ivy giggles and he smiles.

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It takes quite few hours to clean the mansion again but it was worth it because it look shiny, spotless and like home again. Ivy is in the room resting and others are downstairs. There are many questions in her mind that are going to be answered soon but she's really happy from her heart at the moment.

Looking back at the time, she realizes how much stupid she was being from start for not recognizing her family when they always came to save her in one way or another way. All her life she badly wanted someone to care for her but she failed to notice the look of worry on her family members faces whenever she was hurt or in pain.

A huge smile was playing on Lucifer's face that really creeped out everyone including his own sons. He never smiles and this huge? Unbelievable!