Chapter 41:

Caution, Danger Ahead

Paloma sighed, she hadn't had to good of a night of sleep, she had thought about Natasha all night about how beautiful she was, how naïve and how gentle, Josh keep popping up in her mind, she was sure he would call her eventually, he knew the due date, which was over a week ago. In her heart she knew he and Kimberley would probably try to take her away. Kimberley and Josh were like angry bees over there children, she'd seen how Kim acted when Michelle was born, dogging the man in to signing away his right, stalking him and not to mention the brawls Josh and he had. He knew they would be no different this time with her.

The sound of the telephone beside her woke her from her thoughts, she turned quickly and answered it.

"Hello?", she asked.

"Paloma…", the man asked. "So glad to finally find you, did you think you could hide forever?"

"Josh, how'd you…", she began, she was shaken with fear.

"I told you, you can't hide. This baby is mine.", he replied.

"Natasha isn't yours, she will stay in Harmony with me, I refuse to send her to Mexico to live with you and that wretched Kimberly.", Paloma told him.

"Paloma, I offered you a deal, you could stay here in sunny Mexico with me as my mistress and keep Natasha or you could run and go back to your family and lose her in the process.", Josh told her.

"Stay in Mexico as your mistress, you mean your whore, you wanted me to stay there and be your piece of ass when ever you see fit, well I got news for you Joshua, I will never be no man's second, I will never sell my heart to a man.", Paloma shook with fury, she knew this wasn't good for her health, but she didn't care, she was going to let Joshua know that she wasn't going to go down without a fight.

"You little whore, you didn't mind it when you was laying on the flat of your back letting me pump it in and out…", Josh began.

"You bastard you took advantage of me…", she began, she watched as Ethan came in and took the phone out of her trembling hands.

"I don't know who you are, but, I got a good idea and I will not let you hurt her or Natasha, I don't care what it takes Natasha is staying here in Harmony.", Ethan replied, coolly.

"And, who are you her new bed warmer, she really didn't waste no time spreading her legs to you, what did you flash her a little money and she dropped to her knees, she's good at that.", Josh laughed.

"No, I am her, her fiancée', as a matter of a fact I was the reason she stood you up all those times, saying she was sick and didn't feel good.", Ethan replied, he watched as she looked at him with shock. "Hell, the way she talks I'm probably the father, she says you don't measure up in a lot of areas."

"Fine keep the little whore, but I will be there in Harmony to collect my baby, you can count on that.", he vowed with that he was gone.

"You okay?", he asked, he noticed how shaken' she was.

"Now I am, thanks to you. I think you pretty much took up for me and got him to close his cock sucker.", she replied.

"Yeah.", he replied.

"Ethan, I have this feeling that he's going to try to get her from me.", she replied, he wrapped his arms around her and she let him.

"Shh, he ain't going to take her not if I have anything to say in it.", he replied.

"He's her father.", she replied.

"Biological, yes, but uh, I can change that, you see I have a feeling that with the correct amount of money that can be altered."

"What do you mean?", she asked.

"Just that Eve will change the test, no one outside of the family will have to know the truth, I'll tell them that we met at a hotel, things got heavy and we had sex. Fox and Theresa will conform it and the rest is ancient history.", he replied.

"What about Gwen and your reputation?", she asked.

"I don't care, no one, especially you deserves to have their baby taken from them.", he replied.

"He'll take matters into his own hands, he'll get to the truth.", she replied.

"Don't worry about him, I'll take care of him.", he replied.

"Thank you.", she replied, she lay her head on his shoulder.

"You know you act all tough, but, uh…", he began.

"I am tough Ethan, but, she makes me weak, she is my daughter, my DNA helped create hers.", she told him. "Ethan, she's so tiny, she defenseless."

"I know.", he told her, Paloma sighed.

"Paloma, let me marry you, that way you'll have a stable environment, no court will hand over Natasha to him, I mean I am a lawyer, and I can help you get back in school and…", he began.

"Ethan, I am 17 years old, mama will never agree to me marring you, you are twice my age, I mean you are what 28, 29?", she asked.

"27, and I am sure Pilar will agree to me and you doing this to help you keep Tasha.", Ethan replied.

"What about what people say about you, I mean…", she began.

"I couldn't careless, Paloma, let me help you.", he asked.

"Uh, Ethan I…I am going to settle into a loveless marriage…", she began.

"Paloma, you can leave me at anytime, I mean, when you find a man and fall in love, feel free to be with him…", Ethan began.

"Ethan what about you?", Paloma asked, she gave him a concerned look.

"I'll be fine, besides love ain't something I am looking for.", Ethan replied.

"Ethan, I - I can't, I won't lay down with another man when we are married, I refuse to betray you.", she replied.

"Paloma, I…you're young and…"

"Ethan, I will not marring you at all if that's the deal."

"Uh, fine, we will marry and you will slowly die inside just like mother."

"Ethan…no, I won't, you aren't Julian Crane, you will never do as he did. I may hate you, but I realize you have some good quartiles as well, I mean someone who is pure evil would never offer such a thing, so yes, I will marry you, that is if mama and the rest approve.", she replied.

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"He loves me, he loves me not?", Audrey asked, pulling peddles from a flower, she was coming to Harmony to get what was hers. Fox Crane, she had heard from her brother Dylan that Fox was in lust, she refused to call it love, the only woman he would ever love was her, she hated Dylan he had nearly killed his son, her brother had a few screw loose alright, since she had remembered he talked about being with Fox, almost as like he was in love with him or something, she'd heard from the USA Today, that Dylan was in jail, he'd apparently held Ethan Martin, Fox's son at gun point, she picked up her cell phone and called the nearest airport, unlike Dylan she would succeed in making Fox hers and hers alone. She would get rid of Theresa Lopez- Fitzgerald and then her and Fox would raise Ethan Martin as theirs, she held the newspaper article up studying the little boys face. "He's so handsome, Fox and I did well."

A/N: sorry it's so short and if you haven't already noticed I love writing psycho's in, so like Dylan, Audrey is also going to be a few fries short of a happy meal.

Spoilers For Chapter 42:

Paloma asks for her mother and siblings approval in marring Ethan, what is their reaction?

Audrey calls Fox with news that she's in town, how does he react?

Ethan signs Natasha's birth certificate.

Audrey sets the first act of her plan in motion, what is it?