Prologue
"Sonny, there's no way you can hire Lycos! He's definitely not showing his true colors and I think we should wait, even just for a little while! We need to see if he's trustworthy!" Sam McCall cried to her best friend, Sonny Corinthos, on the cell phone.
"Ok, Sam! I won't do anything yet. Look, I'll get back to you later. I'm meeting Carly at Kelly's. Bye." Sonny hung up. Sam walked to the Elm Street Pier. She leaned on the railing and looked at the calm water.
She, Sonny Corinthos, and Jason Morgan had been best friends all their life. Now, they were all nearing their 25th birthday and already at the top of the mob world. Well, at least Sonny and Jason were. Sam lived her life outside of the life, but never joined the mob. Sonny was kind of the leader, and Jason and Sam had no problem with this. This was their business life. Their personal ones, now that was a whole other story.
Sonny had a crush on Sam all the way through high school. But Sam turned away from him. She only had eyes for Jason. Sonny knew this, but still tried anyway. When they were in their senior year, he met the new girl, Bobbie Spencer's daughter, Carly. They fell in love and had been together ever since. Carly and Sam became fast friends, and Carly became part of their group. Like Sam, Carly never joined the mob.
Sam loved Jason ever since she first laid eyes on him. Well, what little girl didn't love Jason Morgan? He was hot and grew hotter every year that had passed. Every girl was in love with him. But he paid no attention to them, no matter how much they tried. They chased him, but he ran.
All Jason cared about was avenging his family. Sam sighed. The Quartermaines had been murdered when Jason was about 15 years old. Sam would never forget the emotionless face Jason had when he told her. AJ, Jason's older brother by 5 years, took a gun and shot all of them for reasons unknown. Jason witnessed the whole thing. AJ fled like the coward he was. Jason couldn't carry the name Quartermaine without remembering his family and took his grandmother's maiden name, Morgan. Ever since, he vowed to kill AJ. Sam believed this was partly the reason why Jason became a mob enforcer.
All her life, she tried to get Jason to notice her and to lover her the way she loved him. But she was an adult now, and at that moment, she gave up on chasing Jason. Maybe after Jason avenged his family, he would fall in love with someone and have a family. He said so himself. He wanted someone to carry on his name, as to the fact that he was the last Quartermaine alive. She sighed and began to walk back to her apartment. "I could give Jason the family he always wanted. But there's no way I could survive in a marriage without love." She decided, this day, she would try to fall out of love with Jason Morgan. But little did she know, fate had a different plan.