Zach drove his elegant sedan through the tree-lined streets of Pine Valley. His mind raced with the complexity of the day's revelations. Julia had left the cabin in the woods. She went to seek out help from an old friend, Tad Martin. Zach no longer spent time worrying about keeping Julia safe from mortal danger. As the Julia fog dissipated, Zach realized what Kendall and Greenlee were plotting. He was in shock. He had previously urged Kendall to be supportive for Greenlee, not to help her find a surrogate for her unborn child. Zach was flabbergasted when the realization finally occurred to him. Kendall planned on "being" the surrogate. At first he was furious, wanting to kick her door off the hinges and scream "I KNOW!" But he knew Kendall, going after her face to face would not work. Instead, Zach spent the day doing research on fertility treatments and procedures.
Heading back to the condo complex, Zach thought back to his consultation with a fertility doctor. If Kendall was to be the surrogate, she would be receiving daily hormone injections. The hormones would increase the likelihood of the fertilized embryos successfully implanting into the ovarian walls. Zach was able to ascertain from Dr. Coulter that while taking the hormone injections the surrogate is extremely fertile.
Zach came up with a plan. A plan he hated, a plan that would cause Kendall and Greenlee, and probably the town of Pine Valley to hate him. But what else is new. He could stand to be hated by the world. Sadly, this horrible, deceitful plan would devastate Kendall. Something, he truly would regret doing, but this was for her own good. Suddenly a thought flashed in Zach's mind. 'I denied Ethan, "for his own good" and see where it got us.' Zach physically tried to shake the pain he caused Ethan out of his head, it didn't work.
The plan….get Kendall pregnant before she can be impregnated with Greenlee and Ryan's fertilized eggs. But WHO? Kendall and Zach were barely even speaking since the entire Julia/Wildwind shoot out. He doubted he would get invited into her bed any time this century. Zach ran down a short list of possibilities. JR - one Chandler custody battle at a time was enough, plus the idea of Junior and Kendall made Zach's skin crawl. Ethan - saving Kendall and being a grandfather, absolutely not. Could anyone accomplish the task?
Zach quietly chuckled to himself. A deep low laugh. 'Of course, I could do it. What a sacrifice it would be…' It would take all of the charm in the world to seduce Kendall into bed. But it had to be soon, Kendall and Greenlee had been secretly working on this scheme for a couple of weeks. Zach had to hit the ground running to catch up.