~Chapter 19~

A LONG time later, Teresa lie in Fox's arms.

He kissed her earlobe, "Do you now know how much I love you, Teresa?"

She rolled over and faced him, "I have no doubt in my mind.

He gently ran a hand down her arm, "Good." He kissed her on the lips, "I don't want you to feel like I'm rushing you in to anything."

"You're not, Fox. I wanted this tonight as bad as you did. In fact, until now I wasn't sure of the depth of my feelings for you." She cuddled up next to him. Feeling the warmth of his body reminded her of the passion they had shared earlier that night and a bolt of electricity whizzed through her body. " I'm falling in love with you Fox."

Fox looked at her stunned. "You're sure?"

"Absolutely, positively."

"God, Teresa, you don't now how happy that makes me feel to hear you say that."

He pulled her in closer to him, "Oh, Fox, what did I ever do to deserve you in my life?"

He rolled over with her and pinned her against the bed, "I'm not sure, Resa, but I'm sure as hell glad I'm here."

"Show me again how much you love me, Fox." Teresa said seductively.

"With pleasure."

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The next morning Gwen and Rebecca sat in the living room at the mansion...

"Too bad that Teresa just couldn't have went ahead and killed over." Said Rebecca. "I was so hoping to have her out of the picture. And to think we didn't even have to do it. She was willing to kill herself."

"We were so close." Gwen said sitting back on the couch and crossing her arms. "I don't know that she was willing to kill herself, I just think we knew her weakness. She was trying to take away the pain of loosing Little Ethan."

"Either way we know now where to hit Teresa where it hurts the most. Think you could pull off an encore presentation?" Rebecca asked Gwen wide eyed.

"I'm not so sure about that, Mother." Gwen shook her head. "If you could've seen the way Ethan reacted when he learned that Teresa was in the hospital. He's still in love with her I know. I see it everytime he looks at her. I thought that having this baby would change things, but it hasn't." Gwen pushed herself up from the couch and crossed the room to pour herself a drink to soothe her frazzled nerves, "I swear, Mother, I think we did all of this for nothing." She gulped down the drink.

"Oh, Gwen, don't get yourself all in a bind. Things will work out. You have to believe that. We always manage to get our way. Always!" She crossed the room to stand behind her daugher. "No matter what comes in our way. No matter who we have to hurt. You know that dear."

Gwen rolled her eyes, "I know, Mother. But at whose expense. Look at me! I'm fat and disgusting! My perfect figure is ruined forever." She turned around to face Rebecca. "And for what? So Ethan can still pine away for Teresa? I had that damned baby for nothing."

"Gwen, don't say that. That baby will forever bind you to Ethan. Besides, it won't be a baby forever and you know we can afford nanny's to care for it. You won't have to worry your pretty little head about anything."

"No, Mother, that baby will never truly bind me to Ethan. We both know that. He'll forever be bound to Teresa. Besides, eventually everything we did will catch up with up." Cold chills ran down the entire length of Gwen's body. "One day this will all come out. Mark my words." She turned to pour herself another drink.

Rebecca shrugged it off, "Nonsense, I will never allow it,and if it ever does, so what? I'll have Julian to bail us out. Crane money has a lot of influence you know. And if were lucky, by the time it does it will be too late. Teresa will have moved on by then and Ethan will have grown to love you."

Gwen smiled sadly and held up the shot glass to her mother, "A girl can always hope, huh?" And she drank down another shot.

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