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Kikimoo – Agreed Virgy15 – There will be more on that later! Butterflyliz – Completely understand! A few people asked if Liz was worried. I did show her being worried. Anyway, here's some more. Liasonisthebomb – There's a huge difference between her going along with Tess at Jakes and seeing your husband in bed with another woman (who you saw him with at a hotel earlier).

Chapter 21 – More Proof

The next day Liz waited until noon before she finally got pissed off and called Tess.

"Hello?" Tess said groggily.

"Are you seriously still sleeping?"

"I think I'm still drunk." Tess dramatically fell back onto the pillow.

Liz giggled. "You need to get over to my house right away. I'll feed you, just please hurry."

Tess made a noise and then looked over at John who was now staring at her and playing with her breasts. She smirked at him. "Give me an hour." She hung up the phone and jumped on top of her man.

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Liz threw open the door. "Finally! You're late."

Tess was wearing very dark sunglasses. "I had to drop John off."

They went up to Liz's room. "Spill it." She plopped onto the bed.

"Sonny and Johnny explained to me everything that happened and Sam's story reeked. So, I called in some favors and he did some investigating. She's pretty vile. Some of the things she's done made my skin crawl. I decided to befriend her and try to get some information out of her. I went to Jake's and convinced her to be my new bestie and I also videotaped the whole thing."

"Where was the camera?"

"In the flower."

Liz was impressed. She thought for a moment and grew quiet. "So, you think that Jason is innocent?"

"Yes. I do."

The more Liz had thought about everything, the more she realized that Sam must have orchestrated everything; even that day at the hotel. She didn't know how she was ever going to be able to look Jason in the eye again.

Liz fell all the way back onto the bed. "Can you please explain to me why? This is such a complete mess."

Tess studied her for a moment. In so many ways Liz was so young, but she knew about what fear of intimacy could do to a person. Part of the reason she liked being friends with her was because when she looked into Liz's eyes, she saw a part of herself that she hadn't seen for a really long time. She felt a need to protect the other woman.

"First, I would like to point out something big."

"What's that, how I'm a complete idiot?"

Tess smirked. "I have proof that Sam can't have children."

Liz sat up. "What!"

"Not only did Sam drink like a fish all night, but I have medical records that indicate that she had a hysterectomy due to HPV. I'm trying to befriend her so I can get her to admit what she's done."

"Tess, I don't know if this is a good idea. I really don't want you to get hurt."

"It's okay. Cooper is watching me and I promise I won't take any big chances. I just want you to be happy and to get your life back."

Liz's eyes filled up with tears. "I didn't believe him."

"He understands why."

"There's a trial tomorrow where he has to enter a plea," Liz said nervously twisting her hands together.

"Then we're just going to have to do the best we can to find some more evidence before then."

Tess started to tell her more when they were interrupted by a loud commotion downstairs. They jumped up and opened the door.

"I am here to see the Temptress," Spinelli bellowed.

"How dare you barge into my house," Lorenzo yelled. "Who are you and who sent you?"

"I am Damien Spinelli aka The Jackal or Ace of Cyberspace. I need to get this information to the Temptress right away."

"There is no temptress in my house."

Skye gave Lorenzo a look like he better take that back.

Tess rushed down the stairs. "It's okay. He's with me."

"Temptress, thank God you have rescued me from the Dark ones evil clutches," he said nervously glancing over at Lorenzo.

Liz laughed. "Spinelli is it? I'm Elizabeth."

"Ah Fair Elizabeth, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance."

Liz shook his hand. "The Dark one over there is my over protective father."

Spinelli blushed. "Sorry, Dark…. I mean Mr. Alcazar sir."

Lorenzo looked over at Skye who was trying not to laugh.

Dante joined the group.

"This is Huntress…..I mean Ellie," Spinelli said as he pushed Ellie forward.

"Hello Ellie," Liz said smiling.

"Huntress is a comic book thing."

"So, what did you find?" Tess said before sitting on the couch.

"Temptress," Ellie said before pausing. "I don't think that I know your actual name."

"It's Tess."

"Tess, Mr. Morgan's blood work was rather peculiar and a formidable challenge. There was some kind of agent that masked the identity of the other cocktail of drugs that were unscrupulously put into his drug stream. I was able to isolate the agent and then create a serum to counteract it, thus allowing me to identify the mystery drug."

Liz looked at Tess. "Did you get that?"

Tess laughed. "Go on Ellie."

"Bottom line, he was given a very high dose of a date rape drug."

"Is this enough to get the charges dropped?" Liz asked. She really didn't want Jason to have to stay in jail a second longer than he already had.

Spinelli sighed. "There's still the dead man. Yes, we can prove that the duplicitous one is not with child and that Stone Cold was drugged, but we still have no inkling how the cadaverous one met his untimely death."

"Stone Cold?" Liz asked as she tried to follow Spinelli-speak.

"Sorry. Mr. Morgan looked really scary on CNN so that is what I call him."

Lorenzo smirked. "I thought they didn't find gun residue on Morgan's hand."

"While that is true Vigilant one, there is no guarantee that it will be enough."

"What do we do now?" Liz asked.

Tess's phone vibrated. She looked down at the text. "Sam wants me to meet her at some place called Kelly's. I think she mentioned that she had a room there."

Cooper stepped forward. "I'll take you."

Tess smiled. "Thanks Coop."

"Put this in your purse, it will record everything," Spinelli said handing her a small part that looked like a battery.

"Wish me luck," Tess said as she followed Cooper out the room.

"Be careful!" Liz yelled. She was almost overwhelmed by all of the information and horrified about it at the same time. She didn't believe in her husband and she wondered what she could possible say that would make him understand where she was coming from.

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Tess walked into Jake's and immediately saw Sam and Logan.

"Hello, Sam."

Logan stood up. He was already enthralled by her.

"Logan," he said before shaking her hand.

"Tess."

Sam smiled. "Thanks for meeting me."

"No problem, what's up?"

"Well, we have a proposition for you."

Tess made a wicked face. "Okay."

A waitress interrupted them to take their order. Tess saw Cooper slip up the back stairs.

"I'll have an iced tea please," Tess said.

Logan and Sam ordered a hamburger. Sam waited for the waitress to leave and turned back to Tess.

"We want to pull a scam on Sonny Corinthos."

"Is he….." Tess's voice trailed off.

Sam nodded. "Yes. He's a mob boss and coffee importer."

"I do like the dangerous types. What exactly do you have in mind?"

"We want you to approach him and flirt with him," Logan said.

"Well that's easy. What else?"

Sam leaned in closer. "Slip a little something in his drink and slip into his bed."

"And?" Tess asked knowing she had Sam right where she wanted her.

"And when he wakes up, I'm sure he'll be willing to pay you a hefty sum to go away."

Tess pretended to think about it. "You sure he won't kill me?"

Sam sipped her drink and shook her head no. "Absolutely not."

Tess looked at her warily. "So, I take it that you want to split the pot?"

Sam nodded. "Yup. 50/50."

"But, I'm doing all the work."

"Logan will take the pictures and we'll make sure they are sent to Mr. Corinthos the next day. Look, sometimes one person does more than the other. But, we always split the pot evenly. It balances out in the end," Sam explained.

Tess nodded. She saw Cooper slip down the stairs and out the back. "Alright, I'm in. When do we do it?"

"Tomorrow night," Logan said.

Tess stood. "I'll see you tomorrow night then. Text me the details."