>>We started fighting with how he treated Ezio and Elijah. Furthermore, I told them the way they were treating you and your engagement to Enzo was bullshit. They pulled the same bullshit when I married Mary Alice. Father told me he'd treat us however he wanted. That he owned us. All of us. Well, there is one of us he doesn't fucking own. That's when I got Niklaus on speaker phone. >>We threatened to expose mom as a whore and that Niklaus isn't father's son. >>It would ruin his career as a congressman. >>Father backhanded me across the face. Threatened to kill Nik and I if we ever breathed a word about that. >>I hit him back. Hard. Broke his nose. Showed my face. My real face. I told him the days of bullying and intimidating all of us was over. >>I told them they would never, ever see Mareena again. They were as good as dead as me. And before they could do jack shit to my trust fund, I moved all the money into another account >>Mother cried, she didn't want to lose her granddaughter. I told her she should have been more concerned with being a more accepting and loving mother to her children and that she could go fuck herself. >>So...ya...basically I'm disowned. >>So if he's at your wedding, I can't be.