Chapter Four

Dillon Quartermaine arrived in Llanview, Pennsylvania. He had followed his girlfriend Kiki Jerome from Port Charles, New York. Something had made Kiki leave rather abruptly. She had been greatly upset. He was worried about her and her strange behavior just before she got on that plane that took her from him.

Kiki had been acting as though she were keeping secrets from him. They had been blissfully happy and deeply in love, but then suddenly, she said she had to go out of town but wouldn't tell him where she was going.

"Kiki, what's going on?" Dillon asked.

"Something happened... and I have to go."

"Go where?"

"I can't tell you, Dillon. I'm sorry. Just trust me."

"We don't keep secrets from each other."

She could barely look him in the eye, because everything about her life had been one big secret. She had been living under a different identity. The real Kiki Jerome was dead and she was Starr Manning! She had to get back to Llanview and see her family, now that her manipulative father was dead. She wanted to see her mom and her brothers. She just had to go back, even if she knew she was risking everything! Despite all that, she didn't want to lose Dillon.

She stared into his eyes, her heart aching as she didn't want to leave him, not even for a day. She never thought she'd find love again... or happiness, but with him, she had discovered joy and beauty beyond her wildest dreams.

But sadly, she had never told him the truth. The man she loved thought she was Kiki Jerome. How could she ever tell him the truth?

"Dillon, I don't want to lose you."

"I love you, Kiki," he said as he tenderly kissed her. "You'll never lose me. I am yours forever."

Despite that conversation, he found her gone the next morning. She had packed her bags and she had left him. Using his Quartermaine connections, he found out what plane she had taken. Kiki was going to Llanview and he was going after her.

He had no clue where to look for her once he arrived in Llanview. He had a picture of Kiki and he began showing it to everyone he met. "I am looking for my girlfriend, Kiki Jerome," he said as he showed the photograph to a few residents of Llanview.

Unknowingly, he had shown the photo to Starr's cousin, Jessica. When she saw the picture, she stopped in her tracks. "That's my cousin, Starr."

"Starr?" Dillon said in surprise. "You must be mistaken."

"Who are you?" she said as she thought he looked a great deal like Schuyler Joplin. They could have been identical twins!

"My name is Dillon Quartermaine."

Although he looked like Schuy, he had a different hairstyle. There was a distinct difference between the two men and Jessica believed that he was who he claimed to be and he was honestly looking for his missing girlfriend.

For the past five years, everyone had thought that Starr was dead, but today at Jessica's uncle's funeral, the real truth had came out. Starr was alive! Where she had been the past five years - God only knew!

"I think the woman in the photograph is my cousin. And I can tell you how to find her," Jessica said.

Dillon was relieved when Jessica said she could help him find Kiki, whom she kept insisting was her cousin Starr. Who exactly was this Starr?! And why was Jessica staring at him strangely as if she knew him?

It was all so odd and he needed answers. He decided he would go to the address that Jessica had gave him. It was a mansion called La Boulie. There, he hoped to find what it was he sought...

"I'm coming for you, Kiki," Dillon said as he stepped into his rental car.