It took me a little longer than I had thought to get this chapter wrote and there is still things I don't like about it, but I do hope that you guys find something good about this chapter. Enjoy.

"Do you mind if I join your guys' little pity party?" Zoe asked entering Lavon's place, dried tears on her cheeks.

"We are not having a stupid pity party," Lemon huffed with an annoyed eye roll.

"Uh huh, what's got you guys so down?" She asked taking a spot on the couch next to Lavon. He tossed an arm around her pulling her in for the hug she desperately needed. If for a moment she could forget about her problem with Wade she was going to take it.

"We're in love with two people who are getting married," he sighed. "What's with you? Just a few hours ago you were all happy and in love." Zoe scoffed; closing her eyes, the pain from learning the truth about Wade came cursing back through her body.

"Wade's married," Zoe sighed. "He didn't even have the decency to tell me about her. He swears up and down that she's his ex-wife but I talked to her today," she mini ranted. "It hurts to know that he was able to keep something that huge from me."

"She's a bit out there, from what I know they were never really married, it wasn't legal anyway, but then what do I know?" Lemon asked with a shrug.

"We all have those moments in our past we forget and block out, she was apart of that time in Wade's life he blocks out because it's easier for him to so. Lavon gets he lied to you, Zo, but it was for a good reason," Lavon assured.

"I don't know how," she replied, shaking her head. "Who is it you two love?" Zoe questioned, taking this new information in. Maybe she should have stayed and let Wade explain things to her. There had to be a perfectly good explanation on everything. It hurt so much because she did care for him deeply, maybe even loved him.

"It doesn't matter now, they're set to be married and we're celebrating their engagement this weekend. We can't exactly profess our love for them now can we?" Lemon asked on the sarcastic side.

"I guess not, but what do I know?" Zoe asked getting up. "Just don't do anything stupid," she replied walking to the door. What little was said with Lavon and even Lemon was enough to know that things with Wade were not going to fix themselves and in order to make this right again she needed to suck up the pain and the fear and face Wade.

"The same could be said about you," Lavon called after her making her stop in her spot.

"Why's that?" She asked looking over her shoulder at them.

"That guy is crazy about you and with as upset as you are about this whole new development you're crazy about him. Don't let this one thing ruin what you guys have," Lemon stated.

Zoe nodded and headed out the door, letting Lemon's words circle around in her mind. The walk back to the gate house was a short one giving her just a little bit longer to figure things out. Walking through the door she saw Wade sitting on the edge of his bed, his head in his hands. She could see that his right hand was swollen. She walked over to the bed sitting down next to him, taking his left hands in hers. "I'm sorry," she whispered.

"I should be the one that's sorry and I'm sorry for everything Zoe. I should have told you about her, I just didn't want you to run before you gave us a chance, I was going to tell you all about her when the time was right, I wasn't trying to keep the two weeks I was married from you, I swear I wasn't, there just never is a good time to say hey I was married once," he quickly explained. Zoe nodded in understanding. "I'm sorry about bringing Drew up that was wrong of me. It was a jackass move on my part."

"It was very wrong of you," Zoe told him, taking a deep breath. "I should have stayed instead of walking away, but I needed a chance to clear my head before we both said even more things that we were only going to regret. I want to be with you, Wade that hasn't changed," she explained to him.

"I want you, and I promise you that my ex means nothing to me, you're everything I need, Zo. I can feel myself falling hard for you and that does scare me but I don't want to stop it."

"I'm flattered Wade and I do feel the same about you," she told him with a kiss to the cheek. "I believe you, but I want to understand why you would just marry someone you don't even love."

"I was drunk; I had just gotten into this huge fight with my brother again. I couldn't take it, I swiped some liquor from my dad, it wasn't like he was going to notice it was missing and for a night I wanted to forget everything that was wrong with my life and it had worked until I ended up at some party two towns over. I met her and I thought she would solve all my problems. She had an answer for everything at least she did while I was wasted off my ass, the week I spent with her was amazing, all my problems were gone. I kept on drinking while I was with her. It was easier that way. And the second the sun came up one morning and the courthouse opened up we were there getting hitched. It was days later when I was fully sober that I learnt of my actions. I realized that was no way to live my life. She's crazy and I don't want her, I want you, baby," he told her. Zoe nodded brushing her lips across the back of his hand.

"Does she have a name?" Zoe asked softly.

"Does knowing her name change anything?" He asked.

"No it doesn't but I'd like to know the name of your ex-wife."

"Tansy," he replied. Zoe nodded taking a deep breath.

"And it's over, whatever it was?"

"There never was anything with her. I signed the papers, Zo, you can talk to George he was there when I got the papers and when I signed them. On my part it's official. I have no idea what it is she wants from me other than to make my life a living hell." He was being honest with her, keeping his heart open and hoping that she wouldn't make him regret it.

"Okay," she told him. "But what I don't get is why Lemon would think that your marriage to Tansy was never legal," she thought out loud.

"Welcome to Bluebell, Dr. Zoe Hart," Wade smirked. "Where rumors fly high," he added with a chuckle. "I don't know why she would tell you that. Where'd you run into Lemon at?" He questioned.

"Lavon's," she told him. She wasn't about to spill what it was Lemon was doing over there. It wasn't her business to get involved with.

"Huh, I never pictured the two of them," Wade remarked.

"I forgive you Wade, but my trust is still broken," Zoe told him getting back to the topic at hand and not about Lavon and Lemon. "You kept this from me whether it was intentional or not and that hurt."

"I'll do whatever it takes, Zo. I promise you," he told her love and sincerity pouring out with each word. "Now about Drew, is there anything that I can do about him?" He asked.

"Sadly no," Zoe told him, letting her head fall to his shoulder. "I'll get that sorted out when I go back home. He thinks so highly of himself and he'd just mock you and make things worse for all of us. I need to go straight to the source which is my mother to stop him. The thing about Drew he's only doing as he is told to do. His family has more money than mine but he can be easily bought when his father cuts him off."

"Is that why you're mom is so high up on him?"

"Oh yeah," Zoe replied. "To be fair Drew was amazing at first, just over time things got worse with him, but honestly you've been a better boyfriend than he had ever been, even when we were just friends." Wade smirked. "Come on let me take a look at your hand there. What did you hit?" She asked, moving to cradle his swollen hand.

"The door," he shrugged. "It doesn't hurt that bad," he winced, feeling pain surge through this hand right up his arm as Zoe carefully examined his hand.

"Lucky for you nothing's broken, just some bruising," she told him walking to the freezer. Digging through what little contents there was she really thought she was going to be giving him a bottle of beer to press against his hand. With one last glance she spotted an ice pack. "You really shouldn't be punching things, I won't always be here to fix you up," she joked.

"For now," he commented, sucking air through his teeth the second the cold stung his battered and bruised hand. Zoe shared a smile with Wade, letting everything fall away, her time in Bluebell was meant to be fun and not one where she was going to be spending her time mad at Wade.