Lucy awoke to Wyatt sitting in a chair with his head laying against her shoulder and his arm draped slightly over her waist, his fingers interlaced with hers. She smiled at him, and gently ran her hand though his hair.
Wyatt jumped awake, "Lucy?" he smiled, seeing her smiling at him.
"How are you feeling?"
"Like I've been hit by a truck..." she groaned, then started to panic, "NOAH..."
"He has been taken care of. He's probably is in jail now, though I am sure a officer will want to come in here and talk to you."
She nodded, then got a good look at his face, "What happened? Are you okay?" she ran the back of her hand over his bruises."
"I had to give someone an attitude adjustment. I'm fine." he smiled, taking her hand and kissing it softly.
"What about Jessica? You weren't here all night, were you?"
"Yeah, I was." Wyatt smiled, "I couldn't leave my soul mate."
She looked at him a bit confused and then frowned, "What about Jessica?"
"I am sure a part of me will always love her, but I don't feel the same way about her as I used to. Lately we've done nothing but fight. You're mom helped me realize that we each have a soul mate, one special person who we just can't live without...and Lucy, that is you. I can't live without you. I love you."
"Oh God, my MOTHER said that?" Lucy laughed lightly and Wyatt leaned over and kissed her lips long and hard, "We will have to remember to thank her."
"We will...have you told Jessica yet?"
"No, not yet. I will later today. I don't want to hurt her, so I'll try to make it easy on her. We'll get everything squared away. It might be a little hard since everyone thinks she's officially dead." Wyatt sighed.
"She never talked to you about anything?" Lucy asked, shocked.
"No, nothing. She keeps acting like she was never gone."
"Do you think..." Lucy paused, "do you think she is part of Rittenhouse?"
"I have tried to deny the possibility, but yes, it is possible. Either she is involved with them or they are threatening her like they do Rufus."
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A nurse poked her head in the door, "Mr. Logan?"
"Yes?" He looked over at her.
"OH! I see you are awake Ms. Preston," the nurse smiled, "I will tell the doctor. He will be pleased. How do you feel?"
"Okay, given what has happened to me." Lucy smiled, "I am hungry...when is breakfast?" she smiled.
"We will be bringing you tray up shortly." The nurse smiled, "Mr. Logan, there is a Detective Rodgers looking to speak with you."
"OK, I will be right there." he turned to Lucy, "don't go anywhere, I will be back soon." he kissed her lips softly again and smiled, "I could get used to this..."
"Me too." she smiled squeezing his hand, "Is everything okay? What does the detective want to talk to you about?"
"I told him about Noah and what you told me. He probably want's a statement from you as well."
"Well send him in." Lucy stated.
"Will do." Wyatt smiled, "After I talk to him, I am going to head home and talk with Jessica. I am going to be as up front and honest with her as I can. Then I'll be back here around lunch? Will that work for you?"
"Perfectly," Lucy smiled, "I love you."
"I love you too." He winked, before disappearing out the door.
"Detective Rodgers." Wyatt shook his hand upon entering the waiting room, "What brings you here?"
"We have a warrant for Noah Cunningham's arrest. The forensics came back on the blood and hair we collected from his truck. It was no deer. It was human. We went to his house, even staked it out last night. He never came home. I was wondering if you knew of any other place he might be."
"No, I don't. Lucy is awake and ready to give a statement if you still want to speak with her. Maybe Carolyn, Lucy's mother, might know the where Noah hangs out at."
Detective Rodgers wrote down Carolyn's address and number and agreed to speak to Lucy and get her statement as further evidence against Noah.
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"I can't believe you were so stupid!" Jessica yelled at Noah, "I thought you were smarter then that."
"Hey, I am not some seasoned criminal. I have been following Lucy and that day in Huck's there wasn't ANYONE around when she walked out to her car. If that man who was with her didn't come out and start yelling, no one would have came out."
"And then you drive your truck to her MOTHER'S house and then to the HOSPITAL!" Jessica yelled,
"How stupid could you be!"
"Like I said! I didn't think this out. I have never done anything like this before. I just wanted to get the money and get on with my life. I thought I would have killed her, I didn't expect anyone to come running out the door let alone get a good look at the truck, and I sure didn't expect anyone at the hospital to get any ideas that it was me. I thought it would look more suspicious if I didn't go to the hospital, if I instantly had my truck in a repair shop."
"Why not steal a truck or something?" Jessica threw her hands in the air.
"Jess...lay off..I am not the only person who screwed things up. Like I said, I am not a criminal, I was only doing it for the money."
"Which we won't get now, because you screwed up." she spat.
"So did you sweetheart, you were suppose to make Wyatt tell you everything. Then you decided to drag it on for FOUR YEARS. He was bound to fall out of love with you in that time, regardless of what he said."
"I loved him! We could have been happy, if it weren't for you messing things up."
"ME? The plan all along was for US to be together. Not you and Wyatt...where did you lose site of that?"
Jessica was silent for a moment then sighed, "Right after we got married...I really fell in love with him...but now...now it's like he's not the same person."
"Then let's leave. We will run off together, get out of here. Forget Rittenhouse, Lucy, Wyatt, the whole mess. We'll just go off where no one will know us and no one will ever find us." Noah pleaded, "Come on baby, we can be the care free lovers we once were before we ran into Rittenhouse and was lured by money."
"I love money." Jessica muttered.
"Give it up baby...Wyatt will never love you like he used to. He's never going to spill those secrets or take that job that Rittenhouse wants him to take. Not for you anyway. He has moved on. Let's just get out of here and pick up where WE left off. "
Jessica nodded, "Yeah, yeah okay. Let me grab a few things."
"You don't need anything, let's just go. We'll ditch my truck somewhere in the woods and we'll take your car."
"I am sorta going to miss this." Jessica sighed sadly, looking one last time over the living room of the house her and Wyatt brought.
"I can do better for you, baby." Noah leaned over and kissed her neck and Jessica giggled, turning around and kissing him.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?"Wyatt demanded.
Noah and Jessica jumped away from each other and stared at Wyatt in shock.
"I...I didn't think you'd be home yet...you were staying at the hospital."
"What is going on, Jess?" Wyatt demanded.
"It's clear that you don't love me anymore." Jessica said, "Why remain in a loveless marriage? You spent all night at the hospital with some other woman. I...I called up Noah and we were talking things over, reminiscing on old times."
"In MY house? I know things are over between us, Jessica, but this isn't the way to end things. I was coming here to talk to you, to tell you that it was over between us. I don't feel the same way that I used to. Things have changed between us."
"Obviously." she rolled her eyes at him and turned away.
"The only question that remains now is what is the police going to say when I call them and tell them my DEAD wife is alive and well, and has been for the past four years I have been grieving for her." Wyatt glared.
Jessica turned and looked at him with a look of fear and shock, "I...I don't know what you are talking about."
"Don't give me that!" Wyatt glared then turned to Noah, "How much did Rittenhouse pay you to do this?"
"Do what?" Noah scuffed.
"To kidnap Jessica and let the world believe she was murdered! Who was that woman who was murdered?"
"Hey now...I never kidnapped her. She agreed to this on her own free will."
"SHUT UP NOAH!" Jessica screeched. "God, how stupid can you be!"
Noah got quiet and looked from Jessica to Wyatt and back again.
"We were just getting ready to leave." he finally stated, "Please, let us just go and we'll get on with our lives. I am done with Rittenhouse. The money isn't worth it."
"Before you leave, you could tell me who put you up to this. Who offered you money and exactly for what?" Wyatt asked, "Maybe you could get yourself off the hook by telling us who talked you into it."
"They will kill me if I said anything," Noah muttered.
"I will never tell them you told me." Wyatt promised, "This is the only way you can free yourself. If you were forced into this or pressured to do this for money, then it's not all your fault. The police will see it that way."
"Ben Cahill is in with someone called Rittenhouse. I don't know who or what they are, but apparently they want control of the White House."
"Noah, Dammit!" Jessica screamed.
"Jess, let's just lay it all out, get it off our chest, then we can be free to live our lives." Noah barked at her.
"This Cahill guy came to me and offered me a million bucks to marry Lucy. He thought she was getting too close to you. It seemed like easy money." Noah shrugged.
"Why did they choose you?" Wyatt asked.
"Man, I don't know. Maybe they choose me because I was Jessica's boyfriend."
"And how did they know that?" Wyatt asked, glaring at Jessica.
"She was in with them, from the beginning. We never really broke up. We were together when they approached her and offered her five million to get information from you concerning the White House. They thought if you two were married, you would tell her more, but when you didn't, they came up with a plan of "murdering" her thinking you would eventually come to their side. They had planned on offering you Jessica back in return for the information, but then you all got tangled up with Flynn.."
"Four years? They kept this shit going on for four years?" Wyatt asked.
"Hey man, I don't know what was behind it all. They kept talking about waiting on some stupid time machine. It wasn't suppose to take that long to get running. Then when things were finally in order, this Flynn guy stole it from them."
"And you tried to kill Lucy why?"
"Cahill again. He offered me two million to kill her and then promised I would be free from them forever to live my life as I choose. I figured that be enough for Jessica and me to disappear. He was upset that she was getting so close to you. She was interfering with what they wanted to do between you and Jessica." Noah stated.
"None of this was our fault!" Jessica protested, "We were tricked into this."
"Tricked? Now how were you tricked?"
"It wasn't suppose to turn into this. I was suppose to get that information from you. I figured it would be easy. Then we were done. I'd have the five million and Noah and I could go on and live our lives."
"So you never really loved me." Wyatt said, his voice a mixture of anger and heart break.
"At first, no. I didn't love you. I did fall in the love with you though, later."
"How much later?" Wyatt asked.
"After we were married. You were so kind, loving, protective, funny...I really was in love with you and I was going to break things off with Noah. I thought I'd get that information from you or get you to take that job at the White House, I'd get the five million and we would live happily."
"We would live a LIE!" Wyatt spat.
Sirens sounded in the distance and Noah got a panicked look... "What the..."
Wyatt grinned, taking the cell phone out of his pocket and laying it on the table..."I called the detective in charge of your case, Noah. He had an arrest warrant out for you. I am sure he heard everything. In case he didn't," Wyatt waved a recorder in front of Noah's face, "Rufus' tape recorder works wonders."
Noah made a move to run, but Wyatt's fist came in contact with his already broken nose, sending him to the ground.
He kicked him several times and had him in a choke hold when the police came busting though the door.
"Take this piece of shit." Wyatt shoved Noah to the cops and glanced around the house.
"Where is the woman at?" Detective Rodgers asked
"I don't know. She was here just a few moment's ago." Wyatt stated.
"Was it really Jessica Logan?" he asked.
"Yeah...she's been alive all this time apparently and choose to remain away and let everyone grief for her." Wyatt sighed, turning away.
"People will do anything for money." the detective shrugged.
"Not me.." Wyatt stated. "You find her and arrest her. I'll be there if needed to testify against the both of them." he turned and walked briskly out his door and headed back to the hospital.