Chapter 7

Jason waited for Carly to explain how Lorenzo Alcazar ended up being Elizabeth's stalker. "How did you come to this conclusion that Lorenzo Alcazar is Elizabeth's stalker?" he questioned Carly.

Carly glanced at the roses and then back at Jason, "I was thinking back and Lorenzo sent me a lot of flowers after my kidnapping a year back, I had Max check his credit accounts and a flower shop has been making withdrawls from it everyday twice a day for $39.99." she smiled, "The exact price of a dozen long stemmed white roses."

"Damn it!" Jason cursed. "No wonder she didn't tell me when I tried to force her to say something." he said to Carly as he paced back and forth. "He's trying to get through Sonny by coming after my family and I swore to Elizabeth that nothing would touch her or our family." Jason told Carly. He then put on pants and a shirt and went downstairs.

Carly chased after him, "Jason! Just calm down." she said keeping on his heels "Please Jason, Elizabeth didn't want to worry you; she's scared of you, she's scared of your anger, and she doesn't want you to quit working for Sonny; which is exactly what she knows you're going to do." she explained calmly.

Jason was already downstairs and Carly was on his heels. He turned around and faced her. "Carly, if Elizabeth is scared of me, then why did she accept my marriage proposal? I'm not forcing her to marry me. She doesn't have to be scared of my anger, but if she is; I can handle it." he explained. "Yes, I do have to quit or at least get out unnoticed. I'm not risking my family. Not for Sonny, his enemies, no one. I'm done."

She pointed to Elizabeth who was still sleeping peacefully, "Are you going to wake her? She's up all day running around with Lila." she said, "Poor girl, she doesn't get any sleep." Jason looked at Elizabeth who was sleeping peacefully on the couch. "No, I'm not going to confront Sonny tonight. I'll do it tomorrow. It's late and we both need some sleep. I'll call you tomorrow." he said as he decided to change into his boxers and a sleep shirt.

Carly walked out shutting the door as Elizabeth moaned slightly and turned to the other side of the couch clutching the monitor to herself a little bit more. Jason went up stairs to change and then went back downstairs, grabbed a blanket from the closet, walked over to the couch and gently covered Elizabeth with it and gently removed the baby monitor from her hands, setting it on the table.

Elizabeth opened up her eyes slightly, feeling someone remove the baby monitor and cover her with a blanket and sighed "Hi, what time is it?" she whispered rubbing her eyes gently. Jason looked down at her and then grabbed his cell to look at the time, "Hey sleepyhead, its 8pm." He told her as he sat on the couch and put Liz's feet in his lap.

She sighed and laid back "Is Lila alright, maybe I should go check on her." she said sitting up, she felt that he knew something and was going to call her on it, she swallowed the lump in her throat as she whipped her feet off his lap "I should go check on Lila."

Jason stopped her, "Lila is fine. I checked on her several times and I also fed her, gave her a bath and changed her. Our daughter is perfect." He tells her. "Carly stopped by and we talked."

She gulped the lump down further in her throat, her body was now shaking "Jason, what did you and Carly talk about?" she asked him, she knew it was coming so she waited.

Jason looked at his fiancée, as he tried calm her down, "We talked about you mostly. Carly mainly said that you are afraid of me, of my anger & that you don't want me to stop working for Sonny. Carly also told me who your stalker is." He told her as looked into her eyes.

Liz shivered as her complexion turned white "Jason, I...I...I can explain." she mumbled sitting up, she didn't know what to say, she didn't want to hurt him but she knew now that everything was falling apart. Jason saw Elizabeth's reaction. He was scared for her and he didn't want Lorenzo Alcazar coming after her or his daughter. "It's okay. I'll understand if you are afraid of me and how angry I can get, but you have to know that my anger is not directed towards you or Lila." Jason said to her as he took a breath. "You do know I'm not forcing you to marry me right?" Jason asked Elizabeth.

She looked at him, confused, was he going back on the proposal, she swung her legs over and stood up, folding up the blanket and laying it across the back of the couch "I understand." she said not even knowing what he really meant "I'll take Lila and be out in two hours." she said to him and walked upstairs and into their bedroom, she fought the tears that were forcing out of her eyes and bit down on her bottom lip almost drawing blood. Suddenly she heard Lila cry from the nursery next door as she was pulling out a suitcase from the closet. She dropped it on the bed and walked to the nursery and smiled turning on the light and walked towards the crib "Is my sunshine awake?" she smiled lifting her out of the crib and bouncing her lightly.

Jason just sat on the couch not knowing what to do. He loved Elizabeth and Lila with his whole heart and he still wanted to marry her. Damn Carly for telling him that. Jason got up from the couch and walked up the stairs and past Lila's nursery and then turned back to just watch Elizabeth interact with their daughter.

Now how was he going to get himself out of the whole he'd dug himself into? He then walked into the nursery, "Elizabeth, I want to marry you; I just need to know if you want to marry me. I won't have you or our daughter becoming targets of some war that Sonny's probably going to start. I don't want you to leave. I want you to stay."

She looked at him and sighed "Jason, I love you so much, more than I've loved anyone in my entire life, I thought you didn't want to marry me." she explained "I don't know what I'd do without you or Lila." she said to him and looked at Lila as she cooed at Liz and smiled "You too."

Jason walked up to Elizabeth and took Lila from her. "No, I do want to marry you, Elizabeth. I just don't want you or Lila to be afraid of me and Carly said that you are. I just want you to know that if Sonny had anything to with this, all bets are off and I'm getting out of the business." Jason told Elizabeth as he watched Lila coo at her mother. "Daddy loves you, princess. Daddy loves you so much... more then my own life." He said to Lila and then looked back up at Liz. "Don't you know that you and Lila mean everything to me? If something happens to either of you, I don't know if I could take it." He said as he looked at Liz and cupped her cheek with his hand.

She smiled and closed her eyes, leaning into his hand "I know." she whispered, she felt the same way; suddenly Lila blinked a couple of times than cried out.

He didn't want Elizabeth or Lila to be afraid of him. Jason then kissed Elizabeth and then pulled back to see Lila screaming her lungs out. "Shh, you're okay princess. I think you need to be changed though, so let's do that and then Mommy will feed you." Jason said to Lila as he carried her over to the changing table, and began to change her diaper. Jason looked back at Liz, "I saw the suit case. Were you planning on leaving me?" He asked.

Elizabeth looked at Jason, "I thought you didn't want to marry me, so I got ready to pack." she explained sitting down on the leather rocking chair as Lila continued to scream.

"Do you still want to go to Italy?" He asked her he helped Elizabeth sit in the chair and he watched as Liz began to feed Lila.

She looked at him "Jason, I really don't think this is the time." she said to him as Lila fed hungrily as she sighed and put her head back and closed her eyes. "We don't have to go right now; we can go when Lila's a bit older. I just want to know if you still want to go. I'll understand if you don't." Jason explained as he watched Elizabeth and Lila. So far everything was perfect…at least for now it was.

Elizabeth nodded, "I'd love to go to Italy." she said as Lila finished, Liz put her up onto her shoulder and burped her and looked at him "Shouldn't you go to work?"

Jason nodded, "No, Sonny gave me time off. I think he said two months and a week... I don't know, I just agreed to what ever he gave me because I was worried about you." Jason explained as Lila was being burped.

Lila burped lightly and Liz held her close and rocked her "Jason, do you really think that's the best? I mean...you'll go nuts in this house with us all day. "Elizabeth said.

"I won't go nuts in this house with you and our daughter all day. Actually, I'd like that very much. You're on leave right now and I think it would benefit both you both if I was here. Jason replied with a smile as he kneeled down and touched his daughter's back. "She's so perfect." He said as he looked at Elizabeth and leaned in to kiss her.

She smiled and kissed him back cupping his face pulling him closer as Lila fell asleep, Liz broke the kiss and stood up putting Lila back in her bed "She should be good for an hour or two." she said and took his hand leading him out of the room and to their bedroom closing the door behind them

Jason smirked, "Really, an hour or two... you think she could make to two and half hours?" He said as he kissed Elizabeth again. This time there were to be no interruptions except for Lila. Jason was going to make love to his fiancée.