Never Judge

"Alexi." Katerina said in a sad tone. Cedric knew that Katerina didn\'t like Jen but she was willing to adjust for her brother, she knew her brother loved Jen and Katerina never wanted to see Alexi or Natalia hurt. The Sebastian siblings were very close and they never just stood by when one of them was in pain or in trouble.

"Katerina, don\'t, just don\'t." Alexi hissed as he stared at the screen. "She slept over that night." Alexi confessed. Cedric could see that Alexi was already beating himself up inside.

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"Alexi, it\'s not your fault." Ian, who had remained silent the whole time, said as he looked at Alexi with a pitiful glance. "You love her. We can\'t blame you for thinking the best and for trusting her."

"No, my sister said not to trust her." You could hear the anger and regret in Alexi\'s tone. He was mad at himself. "If I hadn\'t brought her home she wouldn\'t have gotten the chance to steal that serum. She was probably observing Natalia\'s and her team\'s movements. I didn\'t even notice her getting out of bed and sneaking into the lab."

"Brother, you couldn\'t have known." Natalia walked over and placed a hand on Alexi\'s shoulder. "She tricked you, you fell in love. We all want to trust the person we love."

"I should end things with her now. Who knows how much damage she can cause." Alexi said as he started to stand up to leave.

"Wait, no." Cedric suddenly said. "All we know is that Jen snuck into Natalia\'s lab, stole some serum, and possibly injected it into Nicole, resulting in Nicole forgetting her discussion with Jen. We need to know what she needed Nicole to forget about." 

"Cedric is right." Ray said with a nod. "We need to know why she did it. She took other serums as well, based on Natalia\'s reaction it seems to be quite important."

"Anything my father is involved with is important." Adolfo said with a nod. "Important and usually dangerous." He said with a sigh.

"Natalia, we need to know what they were for?" Cedric asked Natalia.

"I need to go to my lab and check exactly which ones were taken, I need time." Natalia said, shaking her head.

"I\'ll help." Adolfo said as he placed a hand Natalia\'s arm.

"No." Natalia said, shaking her head. "I know it will go much faster if you help, but you need to work on finding out what Jen and Nicole were talking about.  Even with your skills you can\'t do both at the same time."

"Wow, that\'s the first time you acknowledged my skills in such a sincere manner." Adolfo said with a laugh.

"Don\'t get used to it." Natalia said with a grin, unbothered by Adolfo\'s reaction. "I\'ll go ahead, if she took the serums I think she did, we are in a lot of trouble." Natalia said walking out of the room.

"Can I walk you out?" Adolfo asked, shocking everyone.

"Seriously?" Natalia asked with a raised eyebrow. Adolfo simply nodded in reply.

Natalia didn\'t say anything and simply walked out.

"She didn\'t say no." Adolfo said with a shrug as he chased after Natalia.

"As a precautionary measure I\'ll have the security at all our houses increased." Katerina said as she called someone on the phone and gave out instructions.

"How are you taking this?" Cedric asked as he turned to Alexi. He felt bad that for a third time Alexi had let himself feel for a person, only to have his feelings crushed. 

"Honestly, it hurts and I can\'t believe I didn\'t listen to any of you. Even my own sister was warning me about Jen." Alexi said, shaking his head.

"Alexi, it\'s not like we had concrete proof. The only suspicious part is how she lied about her past with Selina, but  that could just be he being hurt and hoping that someone she loved for so long would reciprocate her feelings. We were all just going by our gut feel." Katerina explained to her older brother.

"Don\'t beat yourself about it." Ian said with a shrug as he approached. "You fell in love and you wanted to trust her, that\'s how love works."

"It\'s not supposed to turn me stupid and blind." Alexi said in a frustrated tone.

"Sometimes it does." Miguel said. "I did a lot of stupid things when I chased after V. I even forced her to marry me." Miguel said with a laugh.

"In hindsight that was pretty stupid." Ram said, shaking his head. "Why did I even give you the idea?" 

"You saved her from a greater evil. Plus if she didn\'t want me, I would have let her go. I\'m not cruel." Miguel said in a serious tone.

"Alexi, this isn\'t your fault." Ray said, echoing what everyone else had told Alexi. 

"I don\'t know how I\'m going to face her. Plus there is someone I owe an apology to." Alexi said with a frown.

"You do owe her an apology." Katerina said with a nod.

"Selina?" Cedric asked.

"Yeah. I treated her like she was the worst person on earth because of Jen, it turns out her side is the truth and she was just feeling guilty." Alexi explained.

"Yeah, we all knew that and we were telling you." Katerina said, rolling her eyes.

"You just said it wasn\'t my fault!" Alexi complained.

"I\'m your sister, I just can\'t resist." Katerina said with a grin.

"What do you plan to do now?" Ram asked Alexi.

"I have a dinner date with her tonight, a very public dinner date." Alexi said with a sigh. "We\'re supposed to choose a wedding date."

"Wow, that fast?" Ian teased.

"Well I thought I loved her. I was already on the fence a few days ago. You can ask Cedric." Alexi told his friends. Everyone turned to look at Cedric with a puzzled expression.

"I told him to talk to Selina." Cedric said with a shrug. "He was confused about his feelings so I sent him to settle them and figure out what he wants."

"And I did. I was with her earlier." Alexi confessed.

"What?!" Everyone asked in shock.