A/N: Sorry about no smut! I had planned on writing it but it takes me forever to right it and then I second guess myself. I'll eventually reedit this chapter with this one but for now there is none :/ Please review if you like it! It really helps!
On the table was Saint Dismas's cross and a bottle of scotch. I had declined any scotch as I just wanted to get the cross open and go talk to my sister.
"Okay." He spoke as he grabbed it and brought it to the edge of the table, "I hope I don't go to hell for this." He joked before taking a hammer to the end of it. He looked into it, "Shit." He cursed,
"What?" Nate asked him,
"It's empty." He looked to us, disappointed.
"What?" Nate asked before Sam shook the cross so a rolled up piece of parchment came out.
"You're such an asshole." Nate said
"He's your brother." Sullivan spoke. I sat there with my arms on the table intrigued at what was on the piece of parchment.
"Well that seems to be a good sign." I spoke as I nodded towards the insignia,
"That's Avery's insignia." Sam told us before rolling it out. There was a cross with crossing swords and a skull in cross bones. Around it seemed to be script, "'Hodie mecum eris in Paradiso'" Sam read it,
"Today you will join me in Paradise." Nate translated,
"It's what Jesus said to Saint Dismas on the Cross, but…" Sam looked to Nate, "Right." Nate spoke before he looked back down at the paper. "What about these numbers, what do they mean?" Sam asked as he turned the paper so Nate and I could look at it.
"Some kind of code? Or a phone number?" Sully joked, I smiled
"They're dates." I pointed out before turning the paper towards Sam, "1659." I spoke as I covered the over four,
"That's the year Avery was born." Sam spoke
"1699." I pointed to the last for digits while covering the first four,
"Lemme guess, the year he died?" Sullivan asked,
"By most accounts, yeah, but…That means we have date of birth, date of death and 'Paradise'. Which means we're looking for Avery's grave." Sam spoke,
"At Saint Dismas' Cathedral." Nate spoke before he stood up to grab his journal,
"Wait a second, hasn't Rafe been scouring that site for ages already?" Sullivan asked
"Yeah, the cathedral." Nate spoke, "You see these symbols? These are found on old Scottish gravestones. Right?" He asked before opening a map, "The layout of this place is really unusual. Here is the cathedral." He pointed to the location on the map, "But the graveyard…is way over here." Nate pointed to the other location,
"Rafe's been focusing on the wrong area." Sam realized,
"Exactly."
"We're going to Scotland." Sam looked to the three of us,
"All right, all right. Wait—wait up. You do realize that Rafe knows you're coming?" Sully pointed out
"Yeah but we'll deal with that when we get there." Nate spoke and I rolled my eyes at him,
"Rafe would love nothing more than for you two to show up." I stated, "And he has Nadine and her whole army to back him up." I added
"Yeah, but he doesn't have this. The biggest pirate treasure of all time is within our grasp." Nate argued,
"I thought this was about saving Sam." Sully spoke. I sat back and watched Sullivan and Nate go back and forth. Until Elena had come up and Nate hadn't told her. I opened my mouth to give him my two cents but he shot me a look that read 'you're doing the same exact thing'. I stood up as I needed to leave the room and get out of this conversation.
"I'm going to make a call then go to bed. I have an early flight in the morning." I excused myself before Sam could question me about my flight. When I entered my room I took off my heels then I dialed my sister's number. As I was waiting for her to pick up I grabbed a wine bottle out of the mini fridge.
"About time you called! I was starting to get worried. How did it go?" Adeline asked as I walked out to the balcony to talk to her just in case Sam decided to enter the room.
"Please tell me you are sitting down and away from the kids." I asked her
"Yeah, what's up?" She asked me
"Sam's alive." I revealed
" .Way. Your lying." She spoke as she sounded shocked,
"I'm not. I had the same reaction and apparently, his life is on the line." I started to pace
"Holy shit. What did he get himself into?" She asked,
"Hector Alcazar apparently wants him to find the treasure for his cut or he's dead." I told her as it was unbelievable.
"He's in deep shit. Are you going to tell him about the kids?" She questioned
"Eventually…I just don't know how to tell him or the kids. I thought he was dead all this time and I'm afraid the kids will hate me." I confessed to her,
"They won't hate you. They love you and I'm sure they will understand. So did you get whatever you needed to get?" Adeline asked as she changed the subject,
"Yeah and the clue is leading them to Scotland. I'm taking the next plane home." I answered her,
"Why don't you go with them and help save Sam? I mean I can watch the kids for a few more weeks and I'm sure you don't want to lose him again." Adeline spoke,
"I-I can't. I missed Avery's first date tonight and I don't know what to feel Addy. He just pops back into my life after all this time? You know how hard it was to try to get over him." I started to pace again and took a gulp from the wine bottle.
"She will have plenty of more dates, don't worry about that. I know you're still in love with him. Go find Avery's treasure and save Sam. It could turn into a great romance novel." She suggested, "Talk to Avery and Sam about extending the trip. They just got back from the movies a while ago and have been waiting to hear from you." She told me before calling the kids, "It's on speaker." She stated,
"Hey guys, how was the movie?" I asked them,
"It was really good!" Avery exclaimed,
"It was alright." Sam spoke,
"We'll have to watch it when it's on amazon. How was your date?" I asked Avery
"He asked me out on another one. I was wondering if it would be okay to go to that indoor mini gold place with him?" She asked,
"Only if your brother goes again. I know that sucks but I can't be there." I told her,
"Fine, I'll have one of my friends go too." She sighed,
"When are you coming home?" Sam asked,
"That's the thing...I don't think I'll be coming home soon. I have to be out here for a couple more weeks. Is that okay with you guys?" I asked them unsure,
"Of course! Just don't forget to get us something really cool!" Avery exclaimed,
"Are you guys sure? Because I can be on the next plane home instantly." I told them,
"Mom, you've looked after us all of our lives. It's okay if you have to take a couple of more weeks to finish the job." Sam told me,
"Are you guys sure? I don't want you guys to think I'm a bad mom." I told them,
"You're the best mom ever! Do you think we could go to Peru on our vacation?" Avery asked
"Maybe, I think I could take you guys somewhere better." I told them both,
"Really?" Avery asked,
"Of course." I smiled,
"So if your extending the trip can you fly us out there?" Sam asked,
"No Sam." I told him,
"No what?" I heard Sam say from inside my hotel room. I turned around with my eyes wide. Shit.
"Nothing. I'll be able to talk in a minute." I put my hand over the phone so the kids couldn't hear. Sam nodded before I closed the balcony doors. "I'll try to plan the next vacation as soon as I get some free time." I told them both, "I'm going to head to bed soon. I love you both." I told them both,
"Goodnight mom!" The both of them said to me before Adeline got back on the phone,
"I hope your talk goes well with him." Adeline spoke
"Hopefully, he just heard me say no to Sam. I can't go in gently about the kids now." I shook my head as I looked back at Sam who was checking me out. We made eye contact for a minute before I turned around and started to pace again. Why did he have to look so sexy standing there?
"Everything will be alright. Just be careful okay?" Adeline spoke,
"I promise you." I told her, "Goodnight Addy." I said goodbye on the phone to her. I took another gulp of wine before entering the room. I looked at him as I put the bottle of wine and my phone on a side table. It was silent for a few moments between us,
"I'd never thought that I would see your face again." I told him, "I think your dead for fifteen fucking years and then you are suddenly alive?" I shook my head as I broke his gaze.
"I would have contacted you if I had a way to but they wanted to see me rot in there." He spoke, "I thought about you every damn day. You and Nate is what kept me going to get out of there." He told me as he walked towards me,
"Well clearly you weren't thinking about me when you made a deal with a fucking drug lord." I snapped,
"I didn't make a deal with him. I was threatened to find it and if I don't I'm dead." He stopped walking towards me and stood there,
"So? You still weren't thinking about my feelings about this." I shook my head, "If there is no treasure then you're dead and all of this is for nothing." I threw up my hands, "I can't go through that again. You broke my heart the day I heard you died and I'm not going through that again." I shook my head as I was angry and starting to cry,
"Well it looks like you found a replacement with whoever you were talking to on the phone." He looked to me clearly jealous
"No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get over you. And I tried so fucking hard." My voice cracked before I moved past him to sit on the bed as tears were running down my face. I put my face in my hands,
"Then who was on the phone?" He asked me as he came over to me and knelt in front of me,
"Our son and a daughter." I cried into my hands before he moved them away,
"What?" He asked as my hands muffled my answer,
"I was talking to our son and daughter." I answered him
"How? I knew you wanted to be careful and everything." He looked at to me,
"It was the night we got really drunk and took a chance. Remember?" I asked him, He chuckled,
"I remember that. I think that was the best sex we ever had." He reminisced as he sat down next to me, "Babygirl, I'm sorry for breaking your heart." Sam spoke softly as he wrapped his arms around me. "I understand if you don't come with us." He added. I looked up at him as I wiped away my tears and water makeup was running down my face, "It's not that simple…" I started, "If I go home now and I know your life is on the line, I'll feel guilty. It will take me another fifteen years to get over you again." I told him. I bit my bottom lip, "Adeline said she could watch the kids for a couple of more weeks if I go with you guys to find the treasure and save your ass." I told him as he kissed my temple.
"And you're sure you want to come with us?" He asked
"Who else is going to save your ass?" I asked him making a light joke. I hugged him as I didn't want to let go if this was all some sort of dream. It seemed too good to be true but at the same time, I believed that it happened this way to make me into a stronger person. We sat there like that for a few minutes in silence as I needed time to calm down.
"Do they know anything about me?" He asked breaking the silence
"Just that we met when we were young and you died before I found out I was pregnant. It hurt too much to talk about you." I told him
"So you didn't tell them that their father was alive rotting in a jail cell in Panama for fifteen years?" He asked,
"I don't think a phone conversation is the right time to tell them that. They don't know anything about Avery's treasure." I told him,
"Well now I guess you're going to have to tell them about your wild past." He laughed,
"And you're going to tell them with me." I looked to him. I took in every detail of his face as it had been so long since he was this close to me. I brought my hand up to his cheek,
"I love you." I told him before he tucked a strand of my sandy brown hair behind my ear,
"I love you too." He smiled at me, "Let me make you feel better." He spoke before he bit his lower lip. I knew that look oh so well. Whenever Sam bit his lower lip I knew that he wanted to fuck (I mean he was always in the mood but that look just turned me on). He ran his hand through my hair before kissing me slowly. He pulled away for a second and dug his hand into his pocket,
"If you're looking for condom, don't bother." I said to him
"Are you sure?" He asked me,
"It's been fifteen years, Sam. I want you to cum inside me." I looked at him as pulled off my dress.
"You're so fucking hot." He spoke before getting on top of me and kissing me again.
Our clothes were in a pile on the floor as we laid in bed naked. I originally was going to hang my dress rather than throw it on the ground but I wanted Sam so badly that the dress could wait. I looked at his bullet scars and started to trace my fingers over them,
"You like them?" He asked me,
"They're kinda sexy." I told him
"So what did you name our kids?" He asked
"Avery Rose and Samuel Elias Jr." I told him. He smiled to himself,
"So you named our daughter after Henry Avery?" He asked me,
"I did but she doesn't know that." I told him. I got out of bed to grab my phone to show him pictures of our kids. "Look." I told him as got back into bed and crawled into his arms. He looked confounded by my smartphone and touched the screen causing it to go to the next picture. I chuckled,
"Sam looks just like you." I pointed,
"Avery looks like you." He pointed out, I sighed as I looked at the picture, "They're growing up so fast. She just went on her first date last night and she's going on another one soon." I looked to him,
"And you let her go by herself?" he asked me,
"I'm not stupid. I sent her brother to go watch the movie too. Sam is going on the next date." I told him,
"Looks like we're going to have him over for dinner and find out what his intentions are." Sam down at me,
"I already have that planned. As soon as I get home I'm going to invite him over for dinner." I put my phone on the end table by the bed and turned onto my stomach to rest my head on his shoulder and my chest on his. I closed my eyes as I had missed him very much and I was glad that he was alive.
"I should have looked for your body, Sam. If I had I would have known, you were alive..." I started,
"Babygirl, it's okay. I'm out now that's all that matters." He directed my face to look at him,
"But if I looked you wouldn't have your life on the line." I told him,
"But it will all be okay in the end. We will find the treasure and pay off my debt. Don't worry." He told me before kissing me.
"And you're okay with me having your kids?" I asked him,
"I don't think I'd have it any other way." He started to trace his hand up and down my back, "But I'm afraid that I won't be a good dad to them. I mean my dad dropped Nate and I off at the orphanage." He told me,
"You'll be a great dad. I'm sure of it." I reassured him, "You know it's kinda scary how much are they are like you and me." I told him,
"Oh yeah?" He asked,
"One time when they were ten, Avery tried to distract me with singing so Sam could get into my dresser drawer that I keep locked. It has that picture of You, Nate, Sully and I, and the picture of you and I. Along with some other trinkets." I explained to him, "And I figure something was up because it's too quiet upstairs as Sam is usually doing something so I go to inspect and I see that he somehow stole the key." I started laughing, "He looks at me and he knows he's caught so he gives me the key and rats on his sister for being a part of it." I told him, he started laughing,
"What did you do?" Sam asked,
"No t.v. or internet for three days. They weren't happy and they tried to negotiate with me about seeing what was in the drawer if they did something special." I told him, "I really wish you were there to raise them with me. They turned into great kids." I started to draw circles on his chest, "They even stand up for each other in school and at home." I smiled as I missed Avery and Sam.
"It sounds like you did a great job raising them." He told me I looked up at him
"Yeah but when the two of them fight, it's a handful." I smirked,
"I can't wait for that." He rolled his eyes jokingly. I climbed on top of him and looked at him,
"You're handling their fights from now on. You need to make up for lost time." I poked his chest. He laughed as he grabbed my hand, "How about we handle them together?" He suggested as I leaned down and kissed him,
"I'll think about it. For right now let's go for another round." I said between kisses, he wrapped his arms around me,
"I love you." He told me, I pulled away just enough to look at him,
"I love you too." I smiled.