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The flight to paradise was done in silence mostly. Joe and I didn't have much to say to each other on our flight on his private jet to the most beautiful private island I have ever seen. I had a lot that I needed to tell and say to Joe but I was working up the courage to tell him without ruining our entire trip. There was so much he needed to know and there was so much we needed to discuss. Our relationship since the beginning of the week has hit a roadblock. I feel disconnected from him and I am sure he feels the same way as me. The tension continues as we walk into the beautiful beach house on the private island "It's beautiful," I say softly as we walk through the house. The living room connected to the kitchen with an island and two bar stools at the island. Joe leads me up the stairs to the master bedroom. It's absolutely breath taking as we walk into the room. The white light satin curtains blowing in the breeze from the beautiful blue-green ocean in front of us, we have the most perfect view of the beach from our bedroom window and the patio that is outside the sliding door of our master bedroom. "Wow," I say almost breathless.

"Do you like it?" he asks as he wraps his arms around my waist from behind as I stand out on the balcony overlooking the sandy beach. He rests his chin on my shoulder.

"I love it," I say, "is it yours?"

"It's ours," he says softly. "Everything is ours. Nothing is just mine anymore everything is ours."

"But we're not married," I say, "so yes everything is yours."

He kisses my neck softly and whispers, "we can change that this weekend."

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"We can get married this weekend and become Mr. and Mrs. Reigns."

"Joe," I say turning to face him. "I don't think so. We aren't ready for marriage not yet anyway. I told you I needed a year. I eloped for my first marriage and my family never got to see me get married. I want them to be at our wedding and what about Italy? What happened there?"

"We can still get married in Italy for our families but I want to do this privately just you and me. That's what I want. I want a private beach wedding just for us. The sooner I make you Mrs. Reigns the sooner I can put your name down on Reigns Corporation."

"Joe," I say bringing my hands to his chest playing with the buttons of his shirt. "It's not time. We need to talk. Maybe after we talk we can discuss the possibility of a private beach wedding for the both of us but I think you need to know some things and I think we need to talk about some things."

"So you're open to the idea?" he asks.

"I am open to it as long as you're promising me a wedding in Italy next June with our family and friends but no one knows we're married until that day. I want them to think that is our actual wedding day not just our day of renewing our vows. My parents need to believe that we actually got married that day in June and not today."

"That works for me," he says with a smile. "I love you, Teagan, and there is nothing that you're going to tell me today that's going to make me think otherwise."

"Well, maybe you should just wait to listen," I say as I break free from his grasp and walk back into the master bedroom as he follows me. "There is stuff you don't know but you need to know."

"If this is about Jay and everything that happened with him you don't have to tell me."

"It's not just about Jay," I say as I look at him intensely with my blue eyes. "There is more."

"So tell me about it," he says coming closer to me.

I put my hand up to stop him. "Not now. Let's just enjoy the evening on the beach and having dinner together. We'll talk about it tomorrow when I have more strength."

"Okay," he says with a soft smile.

"Okay," I say as I get into my luggage to pull out a sundress to wear to dinner and my white bikini to wear to spend some time on the beach while Joe does the same.

The evening we spend together couldn't be any more perfect than what it was. It was absolutely beautiful. We spent the remainder of the day swimming in the ocean, being lazy and enjoying our privacy as the sun began to set in the sky leaving beautiful pink and orange stripes in the sky that bounced off the water. Joe and I shared a passionate kiss underneath the beautiful evening sky before we got out of the ocean and walked to our beach house to shower before we went to dinner. We had a romantic candlelight dinner of lobster, shrimp and seasoned corn on the cob on the balcony of our beach house as the evening breeze hit us. I have to give credit where credit it was due. Joe was making this a very special weekend for us and I felt bad that in the next few hours I was going to ruin that special weekend. The romance continued after dinner as we took a romantic moonlit walk along the beach as the waves crashed down around us before we went back to the beach house and spent most of the night making hot passionate love to each other. It was one of the best nights of my life.

The morning comes fast as I am woken up by the sun shining into the room as the curtains blow in the light breeze. I smile as Joe's arms are wrapped tightly around me, our legs tangled together under tangled sheets. I smile as I feel his soft breathing, his nostrils flaring perfectly as he inhales, his full soft lips looking extremely kissable, his dark hair over his face and a shadow of stubble on his jawline. I smile as I take in the sight of him sleeping. I don't see him as the dominating, business mogul he is as he continues to sleep off our hot night together. I brush his hair out of his face giving me a better view of his gorgeous face and smile at him as he stirs. I kiss his lips softly causing him to moan and his grip on me tighten. "Good morning, Angel," he says with his eyes still closed but a smile on his face.

"Good morning, Sir," I say with a soft smile. His eyes flicker open causing me to smile as his blue-grey orbs meet mine before I kiss his lips again softly with a hint of passion in it.

"I love waking up like this," he whispers against my lips. "I'm ready to do it forever. Please, Teagan, marry me today before we go back to New York."

"Let's talk first," I say before I kiss his lips again. "Then we'll discuss getting married."

"Deal," he says as he groans as he removes himself from me in protest. I smile as he gets out of bed and take in the sight of his perfectly naked body before he slips on a pair of light weight sweatpants allowing them to hang off of his hips in that perfect sexy way that I love. "Are you checking me out, Ms. Madison?"

"I am enjoying the view," I say with a smile as I lay in bed propped up on my elbow. "I don't know how you got to be so sexy but I am loving every minute of it. I am one lucky woman."

He smiles at me after he lets out a small chuckle. "You're pretty sexy yourself," he says as he walks over and kisses my cheek softly. "I would say I am the lucky one."

"We're both lucky," I say with a soft smile. "What are you doing?"

"Well," he says, "I was going to order us some breakfast to eat out on the balcony and then we were going to have a talk. I assume there are some things you want to talk about."

"There are lots of things I think we need to discuss before we move forward."

"All right," he says, "I'm going to go order us breakfast and then we're going to have our talk."

"Sounds like a plan to me," I say with a smile before his lips catch mine for a soft kiss before he leaves the room to go make the phone call to order us breakfast. I climb out of bed and look for something to wear for breakfast. I settle on a light blue tank top and a pair of white shorts. I throw my blonde hair up into a messy bun before I make my way out to the living room to wait for our breakfast to arrive. Joe greets me with coffee. "Thanks, Baby," I say.

"They said it wouldn't be long before they bring our breakfast," he says settling down next to me. "I need you to look over something before we talk."

"Okay," I say as I look at the coffee table to see an envelope lying on it. Joe reaches over and picks it up. He pulls papers from the envelope and I realize exactly what it is. "Is that a prenuptial agreement?" I ask after taking a sip of my coffee.

"Sort of," he says, "but it's not a prenuptial you would expect. It's more of what I will give to you upon our marriage."

"Joe," I say softly. "You don't' have to give me anything. I just got a shitload of money from Jay. I don't need anything from you but yourself. I love you nothing else, Joe."

"I know, Angel but just read the papers please."

"Fine," I say as I look at the papers as he hands them to me after I put my coffee down. I am no stranger to prenuptial agreements. I had to sign one before I married Jay that protected their family's assets and all the money Jay had before we married. I understand Joe wanting to do the same to protect his assets. I read over the agreement and instead of it telling me I am not entitled to anything pre-marriage it practically gives me half the things he owns. Marrying him I become co-owner of his house, Reigns Corporation and all its locations, the clubs and everything he owns becomes mine as well. He even gives me a large sum of money well over a million dollars, his vacation homes are partly mine, the house in New Hampshire becomes mine. I am impressed but the most impressive thing is that once we are married he wants me to adopt Sydney as my own. "Joe," I say speechless. "Everything becomes mine?"

"Everything, Teagan, the houses, the vacation properties, the cars, Reigns Corporation, my money everything becomes yours. We will be one together not separate. What is mine is yours it's ours."

"I don't know what to say," I say.

"That you'll marry me today," he says.

"Maybe we should talk first," I say.

"Okay," he says as I lay the papers down on the coffee table. "Let's talk," he says before we are interrupted by a knock on the door. "Maybe we will just talk after breakfast."

"Sounds like a plan," I say as my stomach turns at the thought.

They wheel our breakfast in and roll it out onto the patio as Joe and I make our way outside to eat on the balcony. I smile as eggs, bacon and sausage with fresh fruit are exposed. Joe and I sit together and enjoy our breakfast together making small talk before we get to the serious talk I have in mind. Breakfast goes faster than I wanted it to but shortly after breakfast Joe and I find ourselves sitting out on the balcony after we clean up from our breakfast. I have never been more nervous of anything in my life than what I am about to tell Joe. "So what's going on, Angel?" he asks.

"A lot of stuff," I say.

"Can I just ask this question," he says.

"Ask me anything you want," I say as he moves his chair closer to mine.

"What happened after you went to college? Is it true that you got around?" he asks.

"It wasn't a lie," I say honestly. "After everything happened with you and me I went to New York looking for love but I was scared to fall in love again. Of course what you and I had was supposed to just be casual sex but somewhere in those two years I fell in love with you. You became more than just sex to me, Joe so when you broke up with me if that's what you want to call it and said you were sticking with Gina it tore me apart. It destroyed me. I loved you. You have no idea how much I loved you. I promised myself I would never fall in love again but I needed to have that connection. I needed that physical connection with someone so I spent most of my weekends in college at parties finding someone to take back to my dorm to screw that night and never call them again. I just wanted casual sex no strings attached. It was working out pretty well I thought but I realize now I was using sex as a way to escape from my problems. I was trying to use sex to forget about you and what we had but it didn't work. I couldn't forget about you. You were always on my mind, Joe. Always on my mind, Baby; there was not a day that went by that I didn't think about you. I will admit it sex was my escape, my outlet it was my way to fill the void. It was stupid and I regret every second of it. It was supposed to be just casual sex and then I met Jay then things weren't so casual anymore. Like I have said Jay was a nice guy at one point. I didn't meet him having sex if that's what you were going to ask. He was in one of my classes and we started talking, next thing I know we were dating and then we were having sex. I thought I loved him and I thought he loved me. Once I met him everything else just seemed to disappear. I stopped having the casual sex except a couple times around the time I conceived Renny."

"So you used sex as a way to get over me?"

"That was the plan but it didn't really work out that well. It was a stupid mistake. I had just gotten freedom from my family, my heart was broken, I went wild. That's all I can say and I am ashamed of it. I am sorry, Baby."

"You have nothing to apologize for," he says as he wraps his arm around my shoulders. "We all deal with things different ways. I can't hold that against you. Is it true about what Jay, his dad and his friends did?"

"I wouldn't lie about it, Joe. Jay used me as his slut. That's what I was to him. That's all I ever was. He made me do things for him. First it started off with me having to have sex with his dad. That was horrible in itself. I hated every minute of it but every time I fought it I got my ass kicked it wasn't worth it. They took turns sometimes it lasted a couple hours and sometimes it lasted all night. It was their call. Sometimes they didn't' take turns sometimes it was both of them at once which was weird to me in the first place why would he want to bang his son's wife or why would you want your father to bang your wife and more importantly why would you want to do it together? It was disgusting and weird. It made me feel useless, worthless. I was nothing more than a vagina with legs," I say.

"That's horrible and I agree it is weird. Did they ever wear protection?"

"Yes," I say, "Jay was so scared he'd get me pregnant again that he would always use protection. He never wanted more kids after Lylah. I guess because he didn't' get his boy that he was scared to try again. I don't know. I don't care I am just glad that I didn't get pregnant from any of his bullshit. Then after his dad and him he started to use me for business deals. I told you he is a sex trafficker. He knows what kind of sex sells. He knows that blonde women with blue eyes are the prize. He knew that pimping me out to his business associates to make a deal would work fantastically because I am blonde, blue eyed, I have a nice chest and obviously couldn't say no. Any time he wanted to make a deal he would bring his business associate home with him and then use me to close the deal. It worked almost 100% of the time. I hated it."

"I hate it for you. I can't believe this, Teagan."

"I wish it was different," I say taking Joe's hand, "but it's not. I feel used and dirty. Then came his friends. If they wanted a piece he had no problem with letting them do whatever they wanted to me. Who does that to their wife you know what I mean?"

"An asshole," he says.

"And I am sorry if I am too much of a slut for you. I am really sorry."

"Teagan," he says, "you are not a slut. You were forced to do those things and whatever happened after us is not my business. The fact you are with me now and I would NEVER do to you what Jay did is what matters now. I love you, Teagan and nothing is going to make me change my mind."

"Maybe you should finish listening," I say, "there is more. It's about Renny's dad."

"Okay," he says as I squeeze his hand tighter out of anxiousness. "Who is her father? Is it just some random guy?"

"No," I say as I look at him. "He's not just some random guy. He just happens to be a guy that I love very much."

"Teagan," he says, "are you saying what I think you're saying?"

"Depends on what you think I'm saying," I say in reply.

"How?" he asks. "How is that even possible?"

"Don't act like you are surprised and you don't remember that one night in January 7 years ago when we were both home from college. You know the one we swore to never talk about?"

"That was one time, Teagan, and I pulled out it's not even possible."

"First it takes one time and apparently it was that one time that it took. And while you did pull out you still didn't pull out in time. You had already started before you pulled out. Don't play around Joe. If Jay isn't the father, the other guy I slept with we used protection and then I slept with you while I was in Florida. I know we promised to never talk about it again because of Jay but we need to talk about it. Renny is your daughter."

"Teagan," he says. "Are you sure?"

"100%," I say.

"And why didn't you try to contact me or at least let me know? Why didn't you tell me?"

"So you could tell me to get an abortion again? I didn't tell you because I wasn't sure. There was no need to alarm you when I wasn't sure. Like you said it was one time compared to thousands of times with Jay."

"But it didn't dawn on you to do a paternity test?" he asks and I can hear the anger in his voice.

"Jay didn't want to do a paternity test, he married me I didn't have a choice. If I did I would have had one done but I couldn't."

"This is bullshit, Teagan, you should have told me you got pregnant."

"I didn't know it was from that night until now," I say. "Don't get upset with me. If I had been sure and I would have known you would have been the first person I told and what am I supposed to do when you're talking about not talking about that night again."

"I only said that because you were so worried about that asshole finding out you cheated on him. I wanted more than that one night, Teagan, you know that and I know that. I love you. I have always loved you. I told you I wanted you to come back the night before graduation. I love you, Teagan, I will always love you. If you would have told me you were pregnant I would have been there just like I was for Gina when she was pregnant with Sydney."

"Joe, it wasn't that easy. I was in a relationship with Jay. I couldn't just say it was over and go running to you with open arms."

"I know but the point is you should have told me."

"So you're pissed because I didn't tell you?"

"I'm not pissed just disappointed, Teagan."

"I didn't know," I say, "How was I supposed to know that ONE time would have made a difference. If I had been sure that you were the father I would have told you but I wasn't."

"Teagan," he says, "I don't know what to say. I want to be angry but I want to be happy. I want to scream it from the mountains that Renny is my baby girl but then I want to be so pissed because you didn't tell me, Teagan. I understand your reasons so I guess I can't get upset about it. Are you sure she is mine?"

"Positive, Joe," I say with a nod. "You are Renny's father."

I don't know how to read his face. It is a face I have never seen before. It is hard to tell what he is thinking just as I am ready to ask him what he's thinking he says, "I want to change her last name as soon as possible. I want her name to be Serenity Reigns but you never really liked Serenity anyway so we can just change her name while we're at it. We can give her a new name one that we all like you, me and her. Teagan," he says with a smile. "I'm not upset about this. I am truly happy."

"I thought you would be pissed about it," I say.

"No," he says, "I understand your reasoning. You didn't know until recently. I would have liked to have known but I understand why you didn't say anything to me. We did agree to not talk about that night ever again. Who would have ever thought that ONE night could make such a difference?"

"I don't know," I say with a smile. "But I'm glad she's yours."

"Me too," he says, "of course I'll get a paternity test to make sure but once those results are in we are putting it into motion to get her name changed to Reigns and if we decide to change her first name. Teagan," he says as he wraps his arms around me. "I love you."

"I love you too," I say with a smile feeling relieved that he knows the truth. I am glad I told him now and didn't wait or keep it from him. It makes me happy that he's so happy that Renny is his daughter. It's crazy how one night can change your entire life.

He kisses my lips softly and passionately before he says, "Marry me, Teagan, please marry me today."

I smile against his lips and say, "Okay," with a smile before I kiss his lips again.

And that is just how our day was spent. I signed his prenuptial agreement where everything becomes mine once we are married before I put on a beautiful white halter sundress that falls to my knees. I toss my hair up into a bun and place a beautiful white flower into my bun before I meet him on the beach. I hold a bouquet of tropical flowers in my hands as I walk to Joe and the minister right beside the ocean. I smile as I see him in front of me as I make my way down the beach with a smile on his face wearing a white button down shirt and a pair of khaki shorts standing barefoot in the sand next to the minister. Our ceremony very small, private and intimate; Joe's and my security serving as our witnesses as the minister marries us next to the beautiful blue-green water with the waves crashing down around us, I smile as Joe repeats the vows given to him by the minister declaring his fidelity, his loyalty and his love for me from this day and forever before I do the same to him stating my vows of my own fidelity, loyalty and love. I know in Italy I plan to state our own vows but for now these simple private vows are enough for me. I smile as Joe slides my wedding ring made of sapphires and diamonds onto my ring finger fitting perfectly with my blue sapphire and diamond engagement ring and he talks about how the ring is a symbol of our unending love for one another and with that ring he is mine and I am his. I do the same as I slide a blue sapphire and diamond ring onto his large ring finger and smile as I repeat after the minister declaring that ring a symbol of my undying love for Joe and how with that ring I am his and he is mine. The waves crash down behind us as the sun starts to set over the ocean as we are declared husband and wife. "You may kiss the bride," says the minister before Joe and I lean into each other with a smile on our faces before our lips touch and we share a passionate kiss. If I thought the night before was one of the best nights of my life I was wrong because this night is the best night of my life.

After our private ceremony on the beach we have a wedding dinner together before we share our first dance on the beach next to the ocean to the song "You're Where I Belong" by Trisha Yearwood. I can't take my eyes off of Joe as we dance to the beautiful song. "I love you, Joe."

"I love you too, Mrs. Reigns," he says with a smile before he kisses my lips softly. "I think today was perfect."

"Beyond perfect," I say with a smile. "I wish the girls could have been here to see it though."

"They'll be there when we do it in Italy. I could marry you over and over again for the rest of my life," he says with a soft smile.

"Me too, Baby," I say with a smile. "You're where I belong."

He smiles at me and says, "Forever and always, Angel."

"Forever and always," I say with a smile before we share another soft kiss in the moonlight on that beautiful private beach in paradise; a night neither of us will ever forget.

*A/N: What did you think about everything Teagan told Joe about her marriage to Jay? Did he handle it well? What about her admitting to him that Renny is his daughter? Did that surprise anyone? Were you surprised he wasn't so upset? What did you think of his prenuptial agreement did it work in Teagan's favor and is she a lucky woman? What did you think of them eloping? Was it a mistake or the right thing for them to do? Please review and thank-you for reading.

*A/N: I am not sure how much is left of this story but I have been thinking about doing a story about Teagan, Joe and Gina to give a little background on what happened there. What do you think?