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"Don't say you don't remember last night."

The pounding in her head kept repeatedly smashing into the front of her forehead and warily Sam turned to lying on her side, bleakly staring out of her window where the sun was slowly starting to come up. Shakily inhaling Sam slowly lifted the covers off her body and pulled herself off the bed into a sitting position.

5:45 AM

The Prince was dead now there was an international crisis she let Scam get away because she got scared all her fault it was all her fault.

She slowly licked her chapped lips before glancing over to her phone on the table; one missed call?

Who could have called her was it Jerry ready to yell at her for having the Prince killed on their watch oh God what if it was her lawyer calling her to tell her the case had been reopen did Scam tell did Scam fuck everything up?

5:46 AM

Sam blinked slowly, the lack of sleep for the last (two? Had it been two days since she let Scam get to her over something that was all her fault to begin with and now the Prince was dead and Jer was getting the heat and she wasn't near him she was near that stupid plant and dammit) two days finally getting to her, but she managed to shake her head and blink a few times before squinting to see who had called.

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Sam shook her head before rubbing her eyes with her fists and looking back at her phone, the numbers now clearer.

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It wasn't a number she recognized. Looking at the time of the missed call, she figured calling them back now wouldn't bother them too much; they had called an hour ago and all she was doing was closing her eyes and hoping that some kind of sleep would come to her.

Two days of running around handling the media and the Prince's family and the liaison from Egypt and oh God this is going to ruin everything and if Egypt hates us for this and ruins everything and why wasn't she near him when Scam attacked?

She pressed the green call button and held the phone to her ear.

If you had at least captured Scam the Prince's family would have been less agitated at least but no, you let him go because you were a coward nothing but a dirty coward who fucks everything up-

"Hello?" she asked into the phone.

"Hard time sleeping? Being a liar does that to you."

The room got colder and Sam slowly sat up on her bed, clutching the phone to her ear like it was the Holy Grail. "How did you get my number?" she asked with as much anger as she could, but all it sounded like was fear because she was nothing but a coward how dare she be scared of him how could she let Scam get to her like this-

"The same way I found out about your dirty little secret."

Remembering how she had thrown up yesterday, Sam felt the bile rise to her throat once again. Oh God; he was happy about it. Like he was proud. How could she do this how did she fuck up so badly it was all her fault all her fault.

"Leave me alone. I didn't tell anyone it was you last night now fuck off!" she almost shouted into the phone bitterly. Why couldn't he leave her alone; why did he have to be a constant reminder why couldn't she just arrest him?

He had the gall to laugh in her face cruelly and Sam gulped to keep the bile down again. With a sudden increase in paranoia, Sam started to look around the room, making sure the door was locked and the windows were shut- what if Clover or Alex heard her?

"You think that after finding out that someone like you, you of all people-", the way he said that made Sam's heart race in fear and disgust at herself, "Has a secret like this, that I'm going to leave you alone?"

In the back of her mind Sam knew it was a stupid question but she hated him, hated the way he reminded her of her stupid faults and mistakes and dammit why were you such an idiot why did you lose control why did you do it.

"I'm never going to leave you alone Sam", she heard him say, and suddenly the room felt dizzy and she fell back onto the bed, her gaze shakily staring at the ceiling. "Not when I have the means to fuck up everything you worked so hard to hide... I wonder how Clover or Alex would see you after they find out the truth?"

Anger bubbled in Sam's chest, "Don't you dare tell them anything!" He had the nerve to chuckle.

"Why? Afraid your real friends would hate you once they know what kind of... monster you are?"

The tears started falling down her cheeks and her eyes were red hot and burning and her chest was heaving in pain. "I'm not a monster", she whispered softly.

His voice may have sounded rich and aristocratic before but now it just sounded ... horrifying. He was getting some kind of sick kick out of this, and Sam knew she had brought this one onto herself. "Who are you trying to convince? Me or yourself? Because I'm not falling for it, but maybe you're having better luck with it."

More tears fell from her eyes. He's right. You are convincing yourself. Coward. Dirty little liar. She tried pushing the thoughts into the back of her mind but it wasn't working and dammit you don't deserve to have it work you deserve to hear this; this isn't punishment enough-

"What do you want from me?" she asked after a few minutes of her crying and him waiting. Waiting to just ... taunt her some more. Having fun with this.

He chuckled before relenting on his dangling her secret in front of her and moving onto a almost different subject. "Your neighbor seems like a nice lady."

Sam froze, the hairs on the back of her neck standing up. She jumbled her way through the mess on the floor and pressed her face against the window, only to find herself meeting the closed blinds of her neighbor's home while she slept peacefully.

"Her blue nightgown looks good on her."

Oh God oh my God he's there he's inside oh God he's going to kill her.

"Get away from her Scam", she said with a steely resolve. "What good would killing her do? It wouldn't do anything."

He chuckled, and Sam could hear his footsteps lightly hitting Ms. Richard's tile floors, could hear the way he was opening the door, the creak of the hinges, the light breathing of Ms. Richards-oh God he was so close he was right there go help her move stop being a coward go help her.

Sam opened her window and started to climb out, only for Scam to chuckle again and say the words that would freeze her in her tracks.

"I wouldn't leave your house if I were you Sam... For all you know, tomorrow I could be front and center in the court and have new evidence showing... foul play ready with me."

Her body felt like lead and she almost collapsed onto the floor.

"Y-you... you can't. That's not possible", she said with a certain amount of fear, he couldn't... he couldn't have any evidence of anything what the hell could he have.

"I'm a genius Sam... you should know that I have the means to make anything possible."

Oh God Oh God he was going to tell and then he was going to kill Ms. Richards and everyone and she couldn't even lift a finger to stop it oh God-

Sam knew he could make anything look like anything else. He did have the means. He did. And even though she thought this whole thing was behind her it wasn't it wasn't oh God what the fuck was she going to do how could she make such a stupid mistake-

"Now... be a good girl and go back inside."

She couldn't find the means to move, but she had a feeling Scam didn't care as long as she didn't go and stop him.

Dirty little coward COWARD this is all your fault all your fault how could you do something like this how could you lte Scam find out why didn't you stop him why why why why why -

"Why are you doing this?" she whispered when her eyes started to burn again and her tears were falling like acids on her cheeks and when her lungs felt like they could collapse. She couldn't even move anymore, and soon the sounds of a woman choking on her own air were hitting her and Sam just cried harder.

His words resonated within her, and when she heard them all she could remember was how last night he had told her that she couldn't protect anyone from him... Now she could see what he meant.

His voice was low and drawled almost, as if he was trying to make her remember his exact words.

It worked.

"Because I can, and you can't stop me."

"Do you have a case of amnesia?"

Note to CRESENTA: This wasn't the surprise I was talking about.

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